Laurie Lynd (born May 19, 1959, in Toronto , Ontario ) is a Canadian film and television director and screenwriter, best known as the director of the feature film Breakfast with Scot .
14-490: In his early career, Lynd made the short films Together and Apart (1986) and RSVP (1991), the latter of which was cited by film critic B. Ruby Rich in her influential 1992 essay on the emergence of New Queer Cinema . He then attended the Canadian Film Centre , making the short film The Fairy Who Didn't Want to Be a Fairy Anymore (1992) and the feature film House (1995) while studying at that institution; he
28-490: A Dramatic Program or Mini-Series, at the 6th Gemini Awards in 1992. The film was subsequently re-broadcast on CBC Television 's Canadian Reflections in 1993. In 2007, Toronto's Inside Out Film and Video Festival screened both RSVP and Lynd's subsequent film The Fairy Who Didn't Want to Be a Fairy Anymore , along with an excerpt from his highly anticipated but not yet completed feature film Breakfast with Scot . Breakfast with Scot Breakfast with Scot
42-403: A Fairy Anymore . Eric McNally ( Tom Cavanagh ) is a gay retired hockey player turned television sportscaster who lives with his partner Sam ( Ben Shenkman ), a sports lawyer. Sam unexpectedly becomes the legal guardian of his brother's stepson, Scot (Noah Bernett), due to his mother's overdose. This immediately turns their lives upside down because Eric is not patient and is not used to having
56-414: A child in his house. In addition to the demands of being a parent, Scot's non-traditional choices of clothing and hobbies begin to intrude on Eric's desire to remain closeted at work. As Eric and his partner Sam try to teach Scot how to be a stereotypical boy to prevent bullying at school, Scot experiences gender dysmorphia while completely changing his identity. Over time, Eric's unwillingness to accept
70-526: Is a 2007 Canadian comedy film . It is adapted from the 1999 novel by Tufts University professor Michael Downing . The screenplay was adapted by Sean Reycraft from the book by Michael Downing, and the film was directed by Laurie Lynd . The film attracted significant press attention in 2006, when the National Hockey League and the Toronto Maple Leafs announced that they had approved
84-433: The 1991 Toronto International Film Festival . Lynd sent the completed film to Jessye Norman in advance of its theatrical premiere, seeking her approval. Norman was so moved by it that she flew to Toronto to attend the screening, at which she held Lynd's hand throughout the entire film. It aired on television later in 1991 as a special, and garnered two Gemini Award nominations, for Short Dramatic Program and Direction in
98-481: The emergence of New Queer Cinema . The film, mostly musical with very little spoken dialogue, stars Daniel MacIvor as Sid, a man returning home for the first time since his partner Andrew's death of AIDS . He turns on CBC Stereo 's classical music program RSVP just as the announcer is reading a request, submitted by Andrew himself shortly before his death, to play Jessye Norman 's recording of "Le Spectre de la rose" from Hector Berlioz 's Les nuits d'été . As
112-549: The music begins, Sid reminisces about the relationship; after it ends, he calls Andrew's sister in Winnipeg to advise her to listen to the program when it airs in her time zone. His sister, in turn, notifies other family members and each relives their own memories of Andrew as they listen to the song, creating an extended community of people united in their grief as the shared experience of the music metaphorically collapses their geographic distance from each other. The film premiered at
126-807: The same and not worry if someone does or does not like him. The film won the Globola Audience Award for the best international movie at the Lesbisch Schwule Filmtage Hamburg (Hamburg International Queer Film Festival) in October 2008. It also won the Family Feature Film award from the Directors Guild of Canada , November 2008. One evangelical Christian group, the Canada Family Action Coalition, responded to
140-446: The second theme (learning to accept one's identity) Eric was closed off because of his “masculinity” and then at the end of the movie he accepts himself and who he is. Eric McNally decides to tell everyone that he has a partner and is taking care of Scot. Lastly, the third theme (ignoring what other's think of you) Scot does not care what Eric or Sam, classmates, or anyone else think about how he dresses, acts, looks. He teaches Eric to do
154-415: The short film Verona , which recast Romeo and Juliet as a romance between two gay university athletes from rival fraternities. In 2019 he released the documentary film Killing Patient Zero . RSVP (1991 film) RSVP is a Canadian short film, directed by Laurie Lynd and released in 1991. It was one of the films singled out by film critic B. Ruby Rich in her influential 1992 essay on
SECTION 10
#1732905276943168-493: The situation eventually fades as Scot teaches Eric about loving your true self and accepting one's identity. In Breakfast with Scot some common themes in the movie are; loving your true self, learning to accept one's identity, and ignoring what other's think of you. Throughout the movie Scot loves himself and is not ashamed of what he likes. He expresses himself through clothes and makeup. He dresses very feminine and does not care what anyone else thinks about him. Moving on to
182-423: The use of the team's logo and uniforms in the film. Breakfast with Scot was the first gay-themed film ever to receive this type of approval from a professional sports league. In early 2007, several months before the film's release, an excerpt was screened at Toronto's Inside Out Film and Video Festival as an advance preview, alongside Lynd's earlier short films RSVP and The Fairy Who Didn't Want to Be
196-705: Was also credited as the producer of John Greyson 's CFC project The Making of Monsters . After his graduation from the CFC, he concentrated primarily on television directing, including the television films Sibs and Open Heart , and episodes of Degrassi , Queer as Folk , I Was a Rat , Noah's Arc and Ghostly Encounters . Breakfast with Scot , his second feature film, was released in 2007. His subsequent television work has included Forensic Factor , Baxter , Murdoch Mysteries , Good Witch , Schitt's Creek and The Adventures of Napkin Man . In 2010 he released
#942057