Men Are People Too.
What would the world be like if women were in charge? Men are on the verge of extinction in this mockumentary from Vancouver writer/director Mark Sawers. At tonight’s sold-out Vancouver International Film Festival screening, Sawers said he got the idea from a science item about virgin births by female komodo dragons in a process called parthenogenesis. In his film, women have been able to reproduce without men since 1953 and over time stop giving birth to male babies altogether. How that changes our world is subtly hilarious, especially to the women in tonight’s audience.
Andrew Myers (Patrick Gilmore) is the youngest man in the world at age 37. He works quietly for Terra (Tara Pratt) and Iris (Kristine Cofsky) and their all-female family in West Vancouver until his affair with Iris puts him in the media spotlight. Is Andrew key to men’s bid for survival?
No Men Beyond This Point image from tonight of Mark Sawers, cast and producers.
Cast and producers joined Mark Sawers on stage after the screening in the Rio Theatre. The half-a-million-dollar movie was filmed over 2 years but with only 36 shooting days, producers said. One of the funniest sequences is a men’s protest gone horribly wrong, shot in New Westminster.
The next screening is October 2nd at 4 p.m. in the SFU-Woodwards Theatre. And there’s an additional screening on October 3rd at 9 p.m.at Cinematheque.
