Nurse.Fighter.Boy Special Q&A

Filmmaker Charles Officer will participate in Q & A’s, Friday and Saturday, February 6 and 7, at the following Nurse.Fighter.Boy screenings:

After the 7:15 pm shows at Yonge & Dundas, 10 Dundas St. East.

After the 9:30 pm shows at the Royal, 608 College St.

NURSE.FIGHTER.BOY opens February 6

in Toronto (Royal and Yonge & Dundas)
and Vancouver (Tinseltown)!

Charles Officer’s Nurse.Fighter.Boy is the latest feature from the Canadian
Film Centre Feature Film Project – an urban story about love, passion and faith. 
Since debuting at the 2008 Toronto Film Festival, the film has been reaping
accolades, including Best Actress (Karen LeBlanc) at the 2008 Atlantic Film
Festival and Best Actor (Clark Johnson) at the 2008 Whistler Film Festival.

The nurse (LeBlanc) is a single mother who descends from a long line of
Jamaican caregivers and is now living with sickle cell anemia.  The fighter
(Johnson) was raised in a world bent on violence and is now a past-his-prime
boxer who fights illegally to survive.  The boy (Daniel J. Gordon) is a 12-year-old
who knows his mother feels “bad inside” and takes matters into his own hands. 
During the last week of summer, their fates will become forever entwined.

The Canadian cast brings a wealth of credits to the film.  Karen LeBlanc not
only is known around the world for her Tina Turner impersonations, but also was
named by the Globe and Mail as the ‘best voice” in Ross Petty’s 2008 Cinderella. 
Her many TV credits include Regenesis, which brought her a Genie nomination,
Soul and Clean.  Clark Johnson comes from a talented family (his sister is singer
Molly Johnson).  After earning acting nominations for Rude (Genie) and TV’s E.N.G.
(Gemini), he became a household face in TV’s Homicide: Life on the Street and The
Wire.  His directing credits include the pilot for TV’s The Shield, which won him
an Emmy nomination, and the pilot and finale of TV’s The Wire.  Daniel J. Gordon
is a young talent who already has many TV credits, including ‘Da Kink In My Hair.

Shot in Toronto, the film marks the feature directorial debut of Charles Officer,
who is known for his acclaimed short Short Hymn_Silent War.  Inspiration came
from his own sister (who, like the nurse, is living with sickle cell anemia) and by his
own experience growing up in Toronto’s east end.  Officer co-wrote the script with
the film’s producer Ingrid Veninger (Genie Award – Gambling, Gods and LSD)

Original music is by 5-time Gemini Award winner John Welsman, with songs by the
likes of jazzy blues artist Ndidi Onukwulu, the poetic Zaki Ibrahim, and indy biggies
K’naan, Citizen Cope, Mikey Dread, Terry Callier and Brightblack Morning Light.

Nurse.Fighter.Boy is being released in Canada by Mongrel Media.

Check out http://www.nursefighterboy.ca