Robin Cass

Cass at the Hot Docs Premiere of As Slow as Possible

Robin Cass is a Canadian film and television producer.[1] He is most noted as the producer of John Greyson's film Lilies, which won the Genie Award for Best Picture at the 17th Genie Awards in 1996.[2] He has also been a supervising producer for the CBC TV series Kim's Convenience.[3]

A graduate of the Ontario College of Art and Design, he joined with Louise Garfield and Anna Stratton in 1994 to form Triptych Media.[4] The company's other productions have included the films Falling Angels,[5] The Republic of Love, Zero Patience[6] and The Hanging Garden, and the television dramas Lucky Girl, The Tale of Teeka and Heyday![7]

In 2020, he founded Cass & Co, a production company based in Vancouver.[8] Projects in development include an adaptation of Waubgeshig Rice's novel Moon of The Crusted Snow, and a docu-series based on Brian Goldman's non-fiction book The Power of Kindness.[9]

  1. ^ "Rights come home". The Globe and Mail, July 12, 1996.
  2. ^ "Lilies stops Genie sweep by Crash". Kingston Whig-Standard, November 28, 1996.
  3. ^ "Season Two of CBC's Award-Winning Hit Comedy Kim's Convenience now in production". CBC. July 5, 2017. Retrieved June 18, 2020.
  4. ^ Thomas Waugh, Romance of Transgression in Canada: Queering Sexualities, Nations, Cinemas. McGill-Queen's University Press, 2006. ISBN 9780773576803. p. 524.
  5. ^ "How Falling Angels took flight". The Globe and Mail, November 14, 2003.
  6. ^ "Zero Patience". IMDB.
  7. ^ "Selected list of Gemini nominees". Canada NewsWire, August 29, 2006.
  8. ^ Whittingham, Clive. "Cass sets up prodco in Vancouver". c21 Media.
  9. ^ Townsend, Kelly. "Cass sets up prodco in Vancouver". PLAYBACK.