If you like keeping your eye on stars on the rise, there’s a certain someone celebrating quite the one-two punch at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival, Amanda Fix. Not only does she have a key role in the warm and wildly endearing upcoming Amazon Freevee series, High School, but she also headlines an especially poignant TIFF 2022 feature, Carly Stone’s North of Normal.
The film is an adaptation of Cea Sunrise Person’s 2014 memoir and stars Fix as Cea. She’s growing up out in the wilds of Alberta and British Columbia with her teenage mother, Michelle (Sarah Gadon), Grandpa Dick (Robert Carlyle), and Grandma Jeanne (Janet Porter). It’s a free-spirited and seemingly blissful lifestyle, but then Michelle decides it’s time to leave the commune behind so she and Cea can become a more conventional family.
In celebration of North of Normal’s world premiere at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival, Fix and Stone swung by the Collider Supper Suite and Media Studio at Marbl to chat about their experience bringing Person’s true story to screen.
Special thanks to our TIFF 2022 partners A-list Communications, Belvedere Vodka, Marbl Toronto, COVERGIRL Canada, Tres Amici Wines, Toronto Star, and Blue Moon Belgian White beer.
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