• In Conversation With Clement Virgo and Cameron Bailey
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In Conversation with Clement Virgo and Tamara Faith Berger - November 7

An Exclusive WIFT-T Member Event Hosted by Cameron Bailey Presented in Partnership with NFB / National Film Board

Lie With Me
Clement Virgo  
Canada  | 35mm   | 92mins  |  2005
www.liewithme.com

Award winning director and co-writer Clement Virgo joins writer Tamara Faith Berger to discuss the adaptation of Berger's novel, Lie With Me, into a screenplay and the collaborative process of working together as a director-writer team.

Virgo's sultry new feature film, Lie With Me, is a bold and uncompromising story of a twenty-something woman, Leila, who connects with men through brief physical encounters. When Leila meets David, its lust at first sight but Leila soon realizes that her attachment to David is different than anything she's experienced before. Inspired by Bernardo Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris, Virgo explores the erotic side of modern-day relationships.

The film was adapted from Tamara Faith Berger's critically acclaimed novel, Lie With Me, an impressive work of erotic fiction that investigates the complicated psychological terrain that lies between a woman's emotional needs and her quest for sexual satisfaction.

Lie With Me is in theatres in Toronto November 11, 2005.

In Conversation is a FREE event exclusively for WIFT-T Members. Space is limited and pre-registration is mandatory. WIFT-T reserves the right to cancel or reschedule as necessary.

Location: National Film Board, 150 John St. (at Richmond)
Date: Monday November 7, 2005
Registration: 6:30pm-7:00pm
Time: 7:00pm – 9:00pm
Pre- Registration for In Conversation is required by Friday November 4, 2005. Please call to register at 416.322.3430 x.21 or fax to 416.322.3703.

Clement Virgo is an award-winning filmmaker whose credits span directing, writing, and producing. One of his first short films, "Save My Lost Nigga Soul," was named Best Short Film in Toronto and Chicago, and won the prestigious Paul Robeson Award for Best Short Film of the African Diaspora at the 1995 Pan African Film and Video Festival. His first feature, "Rude," released in 1995, which he also wrote and co-produced, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 1995 and opened the "Perspectives Canada" program at the Toronto International Film Festival, where it won a Jury Citation for Best Feature Film. It was also selected for the Sundance Film Festival and nominated for eight Genie Awards ( Canada 's Oscars). His second feature, "Love Come Down", starring Larenz Tate and Deborah Cox, premiered at the Berlin Film Festival in 2000 and won 3 Genies. He also co-wrote and directed "The Planet Of Junior Brown," which, despite being produced for CBC/Showtime, still premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and went on to win Best Feature Film at the Urban World Film Festival.

Tamara Faith Berger (screenwriter) became a published author while completing her BFA in Montreal by writing erotic fiction for a range of publications including "Sticky Buns," "Cheaters Club," "Wicked Fetishes," "Buttime Stories," and "Bump and Grind." She also wrote columns for "Vice" magazine under the heading "Nursex", in which she provided case histories on sexuality, and "Skinema", in which she reviewed porn films. LIE WITH ME was her first novel, published in 2000, and Berger recently published her second novel "The Way of the Whore" for which she recently completed an eight-city book tour. LIE WITH ME is her first screenplay adaptation. 

Cameron Bailey is a writer, broadcaster and film programmer in Toronto. He reviews film for Toronto's Now magazine and CBC Radio One, and for many years reviewed for the CTV network's breakfast television show Canada AM. He presented international cinema nightly on Showcase Television's The Showcase Revue, and also produced and hosted the interview show Filmmaker on the Independent Film Channel Canada.

Bailey is an International Programmer for the Toronto Film Festival. He is the founder of the Festival's Planet Africa section, and past head of its Perspective Canada series. He now programs films from Africa, south Asia, the U.S. and Europe.

Born in London, England and raised in Barbados and Toronto, he graduated from the University of Western Ontario with an Honours Degree in English literature. He pursued graduate study in Film at York University.

Bailey has contributed articles on subjects including cinema, Black culture and new technology to The Globe and Mail, Take One, The Village Voice, Screen, CineAction! and Borderlines, as well as to the MIT Press book Immersed in Technology and the Banff Centre anthology Territories of Difference.

He has been a guest speaker at several Canadian universities, as well as the Smithsonian Institution, Harvard University , New York University and the Banff Centre For the Arts.

He has also curated film series at the Cinematheque Ontario, the National Gallery of Canada, the National Film Board of Canada, and Australia 's Sydney International Film Festival. He has served on awards juries at film festivals in Canada, South Korea, Greece, Burkina Faso and Tanzania.

Bailey serves on the Advisory Board of the Royal Ontario Museum's Institute for Contemporary Culture. He is also a former board member of the Ontario Film Development Corporation, and Toronto's Images Festival. He is a founder of the Black Film and Video Network.

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