Canadian film writer
Leila Basen (born 1955) is a Canadian film and television writer and producer, most noted as one of the writers of the 2006 comedy film Bon Cop, Bad Cop.[1]
A graduate of York University, she began her career as a writer for the CBC Television sitcoms King of Kensington and Hangin' In.[2] She later wrote the screenplays for films such as Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid[3] and Killing 'em Softly.[2] balancing her writing career with her family life with theatre director Alexander Hausvater.[2]
She was predominantly a television writer thereafter,[2] writing scripts for series such as Urban Angel, Max Glick, Street Legal, Road to Avonlea, African Skies, Bob and Margaret, Ready or Not, Riverdale, Emily of New Moon and Blackfly.[4]
After Bon Cop, Bad Cop she returned to television, serving as a writer and producer on Heartland, Strange Empire and Big Top Academy.
Awards
She received a Gemini Award nomination for Best Writing in a Children's or Youth Program or Series at the 9th Gemini Awards in 1995, for the Ready or Not episode "Am I Perverted or What?"[5]
For Bon Cop, Bad Cop, Basen and co-writers Alex Epstein, Patrick Huard and Kevin Tierney received a Jutra Award nomination for Best Screenplay at the 9th Jutra Awards,[6] and won the Canadian Comedy Award for Pretty Funny Film Writing at the 8th Canadian Comedy Awards.[7]
References
- ^ Peter Howell, "Guns, bon mots bridge two solitudes". Toronto Star, August 18, 2016.
- ^ a b c d "TV scripts earn living for `housewife'". Montreal Gazette, September 8, 1991.
- ^ Stan Shatenstein, "Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid". Cinema Canada, December–January 1979.
- ^ Monique Pollack, "Screenwriter on her own odyssey". Calgary Herald, October 31, 1994.
- ^ "The 1995 Gemini nominees". Playback, January 30, 1995.
- ^ Brendan Kelly, "‘Cop,’ ‘Sunday’ lead Jutra nominations". Variety, January 23, 2007.
- ^ James Reaney, "2007 Canadian Comedy Awards". London Free Press, October 13, 2007.
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