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'The Manor' Screening
Q & A after screening with Director Shawney Cohen.
Admission Cost: Free!

CSV will be hosting a free screening of 'The Manor'  by director Shawney Cohen. Shawney Cohen will be present at the screening and will be available after for a Q&A. See up at the link below (we have limited seats available):

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Shawney calls himself a filmmaker, but he's been a strip-club manager for longer. When he was six his father bought “The Manor,” a small-town strip club in Canada. Thirty years later, the family's lifestyle has got the better of them. While his 400-pound father prepares for stomach-reduction surgery, his 85-pound mother has her own complicated relationship with food. Shawney’s role as filmmaker and son provides an astonishingly intimate and rarely seen perspective on a family facing the consequences of their livelihood, dependence and love. The film borders on Greek tragedy with Shawney acting as both chorus and hero, following the sometimes comedic ups and downs of his family over two years to reveal that the business of running a strip club might be the most functional part of this family.

*The Manor had its world premiere and was the opening night film at Hot Docs, North America's largest documentary festival. The film has gone on to win multiple awards and compete in over thirty international film festivals.

www.themanordocumentary.com

Director

Shawney Cohen is a Toronto-based filmmaker who also manages his father’s strip club. Shawney started his career in computer animation and his work has appeared in dozens of major motion pictures. In 2009, Shawney shot and directed the award-nominated short documentary Tagged which he produced with the National Film Board of Canada and TVO. The Manor is Shawney’s feature directing debut.


Reviews:

“A shockingly honest and often heartbreaking film rife with gritty stories and marvelously oddball characters”
-The Toronto Star

"There's more than a faint echo of 'Grey Gardens' in this Canadian-gothic portrait of an unusual family business"
-Variety

“The Manor rises to the ranks of some of the best family portrait documentaries.”
-Indiewire