The Manor
TFI Suppport
TFI Documentary Fund 2012
Logline
After years apart, Shawney returns home to find his once "normal" family
gone, replaced by a strip-club-owner father, anorexic mother and sociopathic
brother.
Shawney Cohen
Director
Shawney Cohen worked in feature film animation for ten years until 2009 when he shot and directed the award-winning short documentary TAGGED produced with the National Film Board of Canada and TVOntario. The Manor is Shawney's feature debut.
Paul Scherzer
Producer
Since 1998, Paul has produced a host of award-winning dramatic features and documentaries playing festivals from Toronto to Cannes, Sundance to Pusan and selling into all markets.
Laurie Gwen Shapiro
Executive Producer
Novelist and filmmaker, Laurie Gwen Shapiro received an Independent Spirit Award for Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale (IFC Films, 2001) and an Emmy nomination for (HBO, 2009).