Toronto – Award-winning documentaries from the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) will be featured at the 2024 Rendezvous with Madness Film Festival in Toronto, taking place October 25 to November 3.
A Man Imagined by Brian M. Cassidy and Melanie Shatzky (62 min)
SCREENING: Sunday, October 27, 2024, 5:00 p.m. | Arrell Family Foundation Auditorium at CAMH (1025 Queen Street West, 2nd Floor)
ONLINE: Streaming online in Ontario from November 4 to 11 at workmanarts.com/rendezvous-with-madness.
Produced by Rohan Fernando for the NFB
Press kit: mediaspace.nfb.ca/epk/a-man-imagined
- Made in close collaboration with 67-year-old Lloyd, this immersive documentary fable follows the jagged path of a decades-long street survivor, across harsh winters and blistering summers, as he sells discarded items to motorists, sleeps in junkyards and lapses into near-psychedelic reveries. When Lloyd reveals a startling detail from his past, the filmmakers try to help him piece together a story that spills out in fragments—a jigsaw puzzle of painful childhood abstraction that seems to hold an unspeakable mystery at its core.
- Winner of the Directors’ Choice Award at the 2024 Tallahassee Film Festival.
- Brian M. Cassidy and Melanie Shatzky have won numerous awards for their work and have held fellowships at MacDowell, Yaddo and IFP. Their feature debut, Francine, starring Academy Award winner Melissa Leo, was described as “raw, intimate and observed with penetrating acuity” by The Hollywood Reporterand was selected as a New York Times Critic’s Pick. Their documentary The Patron Saints was called “one of the most powerful Canadian documentaries of recent years” by POV Magazine.