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jennifer

hi there

About Me

i am a writer living in toronto with my husband and working in film & television. specifically, i work for a foundation ( Bravo!FACT Foundation to Assist Canadian Talent ) which is funded by CHUM Television's Bravo! channel, and which gives grants to artists and filmmakers to make short films about the arts, including music videos outside the realm of top-40 pop/rock/hip hop - jazz, classical, and other left-of-center musicians, like Lily Frost , The Hermit , Feist , Broken Social Scene , Godspeed You! Black Emperor , the East Village Opera Company , and others.

My Interests

Music:

i like: the dears, the go! team, the magic numbers, the smiths, the kostars, fiona apple, the housemartins, david bowie, teddy thompson, jim guthrie, the cocteau twins, the go team, teddy thompson, sufjan stevens, stephen merrit, morrissey, michael nyman, rufus wainwright, the beautiful south, et cetera...

Movies:

favourite movies: magnolia, annie hall, the apartment, midnight cowboy, croupier, garden state, wings of desire, santa sangre, a zed and two noughts, in the soup... i could go on and on.

Television:

Bravo!FACT Presents

Books:

favourite books: infinite jest, franny & zooey, fifth business, mapp & lucia, anna karenina, a heartbreaking work of staggering genius, the book of laughter and forgetting, the hermit of 69th street, the eye of the storm, a confederacy of dunces, the curious sofa