Transatlantic is thrilled to share that the film adaptation of Russell Wangersky’s short story, SHARP CORNER, of the same name, will have its World Premiere as a Special Presentation during the 49th Toronto International Film Festival this fall!
The adaptation that is directed and written by Jason Buxton, stars Ben Foster (“Hell or High Water,” “Leave No Trace”) and Cobie Smulders (“How I Met Your Mother,” “Avengers”).
Based on a short story from Russell Wangersky’s Giller Prize-shortlisted collection “WHIRL AWAY,” the film follows a dedicated family man who becomes obsessed with saving the lives of the car accident victims on the sharp corner in front of his house – an obsession that could cost him everything.
Russell Wangersky was raised in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, where his father was a professor of oceanography at Dalhousie University and his mother, a marine biologist, ran a tight ship.
His youth was spent exploring Halifax, with travel to Barcelona and Trondheim, Norway, when his family travelled on university sabbaticals.
He attended Acadia University and chose philosophy over the family business of science, and edited the university’s literary magazine, Alpha. He also signed up, during those university years, to be a volunteer firefighter in Wolfville, NS. He left the department after he completed his BA Honours in 1984, when he and his then-wife, Barbara Pratt, moved to Toronto. There, Russell worked as a researcher in the Queen’s Park bureau of Southam News.
Russell is represented by Samantha Haywood.
Learn more about the upcoming TIFF premiere, click here: https://www.tiff.net/press/news/tiff-unveils-its-star-studded-lineup-of-galas-and-special-presentations