TORONTO — One of Cory Monteith’s last films will be screened next month in Halifax, the city where it was made last year.
Organizers of the Atlantic Film Festival (AFF) announced Tuesday that All the Wrong Reasons will be presented Sept. 13.
The drama will have its world premiere a few days earlier at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Monteith, who died July 13 in Vancouver, plays a department store manager in the drama opposite fellow Canadian stars Kevin Zegers, Emily Hampshire and Karine Vanasse. It was written and directed by Gia Milani.
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This year’s edition of AFF, set for Sept. 12 to 19, will feature more than 180 films.
The closing night gala is The Invisible Woman, directed by and starring Ralph Fiennes. The tale of the secret love affair between Charles Dickens (Fiennes) and Nelly Ternan (Felicity Jones) also stars Kristin Scott Thomas.
Jason Priestley’s big screen directorial debut Cas & Dylan, starring Tatiana Maslany and Richard Dreyfuss, will also be showcased at AFF.
Other films in the line-up include The Art of the Steal, starring Kurt Russell and Canadian actor Jay Baruchel; Don Jon, directed by and starring Joseph Gordon Levitt; The Double, with Jesse Eisenberg and Mia Wasikowska; and The Right Kind of Wrong, starring Ryan Kwanten and Canada’s Catherine O’Hara.
AFF will host the world premiere of Arctic Defenders, a documentary about the role of the Inuit in the sovereignty of Canada’s North.
The festival, which kicks off with a gala at the Cunard Centre, has programs focusing on Atlantic and French-language films.
For more information on the Atlantic Film Festival, click here.
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