Robin Cass Explained

Robin Cass is a Canadian film and television producer.[1] He is most noted as the producer of John Greyson's film Lilies, which won the Genie Award for Best Picture at the 17th Genie Awards in 1996.[2] He has also been a supervising producer for the CBC TV series Kim's Convenience.[3]

A graduate of the Ontario College of Art and Design, he joined with Louise Garfield and Anna Stratton in 1994 to form Triptych Media.[4] The company's other productions have included the films Falling Angels,[5] The Republic of Love, Zero Patience[6] and The Hanging Garden, and the television dramas Lucky Girl, The Tale of Teeka and Heyday![7]

In 2020, he founded Cass & Co, a production company based in Vancouver.[8] Projects in development include an adaptation of Waubgeshig Rice's novel Moon of The Crusted Snow, and a docu-series based on Brian Goldman's non-fiction book The Power of Kindness.[9]

Filmography

Notes and References

  1. "Rights come home". The Globe and Mail, July 12, 1996.
  2. "Lilies stops Genie sweep by Crash". Kingston Whig-Standard, November 28, 1996.
  3. News: Season Two of CBC's Award-Winning Hit Comedy Kim's Convenience now in production . June 18, 2020 . . July 5, 2017.
  4. [Thomas Waugh]
  5. "How Falling Angels took flight". The Globe and Mail, November 14, 2003.
  6. Web site: Zero Patience . IMDB.
  7. "Selected list of Gemini nominees". Canada NewsWire, August 29, 2006.
  8. Web site: Whittingham . Clive . Cass sets up prodco in Vancouver . c21 Media.
  9. Web site: Townsend . Kelly . Cass sets up prodco in Vancouver . PLAYBACK.