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    Finn's Girl

    Dominique Cardona 2007 Canada Fiction color 88min English Beta
    Dr. Finn Jefferies is a thoroughly modern lesbian– far too feisty and happy to ever bother hiding her sexuality. Her family is pure 21st century: two mothers, two careers and a child. Nothing had ever rocked Finn's passionate, committed life until the untimely death of her beloved long-term partner, Nancy. In shock, Finn can barely cope. As she flounders in her grief, she takes risks that jeopardize her relationship with the only person she really loves– their daughter, eleven-year-old Zelly Bean.

    Finn is clearly not comfortable in her new role on the domestic front. She loves Zelly deeply, but her demanding career as a brilliant gynecologist heading up a research laboratory that develops new fertility drugs for major pharmaceutical companies has put her wildly out of touch with her maternal instincts. Consumed by her work and by a rebound fling with a much younger woman, Finn is oblivious to Zelly's attention seeking antics– shoplifting, smoking dope and skipping school, until Paul Jimenez, one of Finn's colleagues and also Zelly's father, threatens to take custody of his daughter.

    Director

    Dominique Cardona

    Dominique Cardona was born in Algeria and raised in France. She immigrated to Canada in 1990. She has collaborated on four films with Laurie Colbert including Below the Belt (1999), a 35mm short drama that premiered at Berlin International Film Festival and went on to screen at the Toronto International Film Festival

    Dominique Cardona

    2007 T家有女初長成 Finn's Girl

    1999 Below the Belt

    1997 My Feminism

    1992 Thank God I'm a Lesbian

    Producer: Carolynne Beel, Dominique Cardona, Laurie Colbert

    Director: Dominique Cardona, Laurie Colbert

    Screenplay: Laurie Colbert

    Cinematographer: Patrick McGowan

    Sound: M.Jukkum

    DOMINIQUE CARDONA // LAURIE COLBERT

    46 Oriole Gardens Toronto On CANADA M4V 1V7

    Tel: + 1 416 926 9890

    E-mail: finnsgirl@gmail.com

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