| Tito | |
| Director: | Grace Glowicki |
| Producer: | Grace Glowicki Miriam Levin-Gold Ben Petrie |
| Starring: | Grace Glowicki Ben Petrie |
| Music: | Casey Manierka-Quaile |
| Cinematography: | Christopher Lew |
| Editing: | Brendan Mills |
| Studio: | Featured Creatures Hawkeye Pictures |
| Runtime: | 70 minutes |
| Country: | Canada |
| Language: | English |
Tito is a 2019 Canadian drama film written and directed by Grace Glowicki. Glowicki plays Tito, a man terrified of the outside world and hunted by sexual predators. The refuge he finds in an abandoned house is disturbed by the arrival of John (Ben Petrie), a cheerful and protective neighbor.
The film premiered at the 2019 South by Southwest Film Festival,[1] where it won the Adam Yauch Hörnblowér Award.[2] It also won the first Audacity Award at the 2019 Oldenburg International Film Festival.[3]
The film was shortlisted for the John Dunning Best First Feature Award at the 9th Canadian Screen Awards in 2021.[4]
The New Yorker's Richard Brody called it "the most remarkable feature that I saw at the Maryland festival."[5]
On August 16, 2018 a post-production Kickstarter campaign was launched with a fundraising target of $18,000. Funding closed with $23,027 pledged by 121 backers.[6]