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BC FILM: Kyle Rideout’s PUBLIC SCHOOLED With Judy Greer and Daniel Doheny To Screen at TIFF & VIFF

We’re stuck together, you and me. — Mom (Judy Greer).

Aspiring physicist Liam (Daniel Doheny) opts out of his Mom (Judy Greer)’s homeschooling in their garage to chase after popular Anastasia (Siobhan Williams) in public school. His Mom homeschooled him because she believes public schools breed mediocrity. And Liam is anything but. He’s about to head off to Cambridge University — home to his idol Stephen Hawking —  when he spots Anastasia and her wooden leg (from cancer) while sitting the eqivalency exam. Infatuated, he purposely flunks out so that he can go to public school for his final semester. Here’s the scene of his Mom letting go.

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Grace Park (Hawaii Five-O) is Mom to another home-schooled kid, Andrew McNee is the principal and Russell Peters is the guidance counsellor.

Co-written by Vancouver’s Kyle Rideout and Josh Epstein and directed by Rideout, the feature was filmed in metro Vancouver like their acclaimed first feature Eadweard with Michael Eklund as the 19th century photographer.

Related: Set Visit to Kyle Rideout and Josh Epstein’s Eadweard with Michael Eklund.

Public Schooled has its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 9th at 7:15 p.m.

And will screen at the Vancouver International Film Festival as part of the Sea to Sky showcase and #mustseeBC.

Voting is now open on #mustseeBC.