Molly McGlynn

Molly McGlynn is a Canadian film and television director and screenwriter.[1] She is most noted for her feature film debut Mary Goes Round, for which she won the Jay Scott Prize from the Toronto Film Critics Association.[2]

Molly McGlynn
Born
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
OccupationDirector, screenwriter
Years active2010–present

Early life

Originally from Montreal, Quebec,[1] McGlynn studied at film at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario and television writing and production at Humber College in Toronto.[3]

Career

McGlynn began her career making short films, including Office Daydreams, I Am Not a Weird Person, Shoes, Given Your History, and 3-Way (Not Calling).[3] In 2013, Shoes tracked the life cycle of a pair of shoes and earned her a nomination for Best Short Film at the Female Eye Film Festival.[3] 3-Way (Not Calling)—which stars Emma Hunter, Kristian Bruun, and Emily Coutts—premiered at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival.[4][5]

She made her feature film directorial debut with Mary Goes Round, starring Aya Cash. She developed the screenplay at the Canadian Film Centre.[3] It was screened in the Discovery section at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival.[6] The film centres on Mary, a substance abuse counsellor who loses her job after getting arrested for drunk driving. Returning to her hometown to visit her estranged father, she struggles to cope with the revelations that her father is terminally ill and that she has a teenage half-sister she has never met.[7] For her work on the film, McGlynn won the Jay Scott Prize for emerging filmmakers from the Toronto Film Critics Association.[8]

In 2018, she directed episodes of the web series How to Buy a Baby, for which she won the Indie Series Award for Best Directing — Comedy at the 9th Indie Series Awards.[9] Since then, she has directed episodes of the television series Workin' Moms, Bad Blood, Speechless, Little Dog, Grown-ish, and Bless This Mess.

References
  1. "Molly McGlynn's debut feature — a TIFF breakout — isn't a comedy or drama, just 'scorchingly true'". CBC Arts, September 15, 2017.
  2. "Anthropocene claims top Canadian honours at TFCA annual gala". Playback, January 9, 2019.
  3. "Playback’s 2017 5 2 Watch: Molly McGlynn". Playback, September 11, 2017.
  4. "3-Way (Not Calling) by Molly McGlynn | Short Film". Short of the Week. Retrieved 2020-12-17.
  5. "Rejection is How You Become a Filmmaker". TIFF. Retrieved 2020-12-17.
  6. "Toronto Film Festival Adds International Films, Talks With Angelina Jolie and Javier Bardem". The Wrap. 22 August 2017. Retrieved 28 August 2017.
  7. "Toronto Film Review: ‘Mary Goes Round’". Variety, 15 September 2017.
  8. "Anthropocene claims top Canadian honours at TFCA annual gala". Playback, 9 January 2019.
  9. April 6, Lauren Malyk; 2018. "How to Buy a Baby wins best comedy at the Indie Series Awards". Retrieved 2020-12-17.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
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