Robin Cass is a Canadian

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 film and television producer. His projects include the feature films High Life, Falling Angels

Falling Angels (film)

Falling Angels is a 2003 independent film by Scott Smith, based on the novel of the same name by Barbara Gowdy and adapted for the screen by poet and author Esta Spalding. It is the second feature film by Scott Smith, writer, producer and director of Rollercoaster...

, and Lilies

Lilies (film)

Lilies is a 1996 Canadian film directed by John Greyson. It is an adaptation by Michel Marc Bouchard and Linda Gaboriau of Bouchard's own play Les feluettes. It depicts a play being performed in a prison by the inmates.-Expository narration:...

(for which he won a Genie Award

Genie Award

Genie Awards are given out to recognize the best of Canadian cinema by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television. From 1949-1979, the awards were named the Canadian Film Awards...

 for Best Picture). He has also served as an associate producer on the ground-breaking Zero Patience

Zero Patience

Zero Patience is a 1993 Canadian musical film written and directed by John Greyson. The film examines and refutes the urban legend of the alleged introduction of HIV to North America by a single individual, Gaëtan Dugas...

, and as an executive producer on Emotional Arithmetic and Amal

Amal (film)

Amal , 2007, is a Canadian drama film directed and written by Richie Mehta. Set in modern-day New Delhi, India, it tells the story of a poor autorickshaw driver, Amal Kumar....

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Biography

Robin Cass brings to Triptych Media a diverse background that includes work as photo and electronic-based visual artist, as well as a decade of experience in series television as a writer, director and field producer for CFT0 and Global. He is a graduate of the Experimental Arts Department of the Ontario College of Art and Design (OCAD). He is also an active board member and executive board member for the Canadian Film and Television Production Association (CFTPA), the Rogers’ Industry Centre for the Toronto International Film Festival, Crow’s Theatre and the About Face organization.

One of the founders of Toronto-based Triptych Media in 1994, Robin and partner Anna Stratton

Anna Stratton

Anna Stratton is an award-winning Canadian film and television producer. Her projects include the feature films Zero Patience , Lilies , and Emotional Arithmetic...

 bring together their backgrounds in the theatre and visual arts to develop and produce bold, award-winning film and television entertainment. The company’s slate runs the gamut from comedy to drama, with properties chosen for the strength of their characters, innovative story-telling and social relevance. Triptych is best known for the features Falling Angels, The Republic of Love, The Hanging Garden

The Hanging Garden

The Hanging Garden is a 1997 British/Canadian movie written and directed by Thom Fitzgerald that is about the duality of life and death and the way seemingly very different choices in life can lead to similar outcomes....

, Lilies

Lilies (film)

Lilies is a 1996 Canadian film directed by John Greyson. It is an adaptation by Michel Marc Bouchard and Linda Gaboriau of Bouchard's own play Les feluettes. It depicts a play being performed in a prison by the inmates.-Expository narration:...

and the ground-breaking Zero Patience

Zero Patience

Zero Patience is a 1993 Canadian musical film written and directed by John Greyson. The film examines and refutes the urban legend of the alleged introduction of HIV to North America by a single individual, Gaëtan Dugas...

as well as for its television dramas Lucky Girl, The Tale of Teeka and Gordon Pinsent

Gordon Pinsent

Gordon Edward Pinsent, CC, FRSC is a Canadian television, theatre and film actor.-Early life:Pinsent, the youngest of six children, was born in Grand Falls, Newfoundland, the son of Flossie ; originally from Clifton, Newfoundland, and Stephen Arthur Pinsent, a papermill worker and cobbler;...

’s Heyday! The company is an active co-production partner internationally and within Canada.

Triptych’s latest films are Gary Yates’ feature High Life, based on the hit play by Lee MacDougall; Emotional Arithmetic, based on the novel by the late Matt Cohen, directed by Paolo Barzman, and starring Susan Sarandon

Susan Sarandon

Susan Sarandon is an American actress. She has worked in films and television since 1969, and won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in the 1995 film Dead Man Walking. She had also been nominated for the award for four films before that and has received other recognition for her...

, Christopher Plummer

Christopher Plummer

Arthur Christopher Orne Plummer, CC is a Canadian theatre, film and television actor. He made his film debut in 1957's Stage Struck, and notable early film performances include Night of the Generals, The Return of the Pink Panther and The Man Who Would Be King.In a career that spans over five...

, Gabriel Byrne

Gabriel Byrne

Gabriel James Byrne is an Irish actor, film director, film producer, writer, cultural ambassador and audiobook narrator. His acting career began in the Focus Theatre before he joined Londo's Royal Court Theatre in 1979. Byrne's screen debut came in the Irish soap opera The Riordans and the...

, Roy Dupuis

Roy Dupuis

Roy Dupuis is a Canadian actor best known for his role as counterterrorism operative Michael Samuelle in the television series La Femme Nikita...

 and Max von Sydow

Max von Sydow

Max von Sydow is a Swedish actor. He has also held French citizenship since 2002. He has starred in many films and had supporting roles in dozens more...

. Currently in release is the documentary As Slow as Possible by Scott Smith and Triptych is executive producer on Richie Mehta’s feature debut, Amal

Amal (film)

Amal , 2007, is a Canadian drama film directed and written by Richie Mehta. Set in modern-day New Delhi, India, it tells the story of a poor autorickshaw driver, Amal Kumar....

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Filmography

High Life (2009) (producer)

As Slow as Possible (2008) (producer)

Emotional Arithmetic (2007) (executive producer)

... aka Autumn Hearts: A New Beginning (USA: DVD title)

Amal

Amal (film)

Amal , 2007, is a Canadian drama film directed and written by Richie Mehta. Set in modern-day New Delhi, India, it tells the story of a poor autorickshaw driver, Amal Kumar....

(2007) (executive producer)

Heyday! (2006) (TV) (producer)

Falling Angels

Falling Angels (film)

Falling Angels is a 2003 independent film by Scott Smith, based on the novel of the same name by Barbara Gowdy and adapted for the screen by poet and author Esta Spalding. It is the second feature film by Scott Smith, writer, producer and director of Rollercoaster...

(2003) (producer)

... aka Révolte des anges, La (Canada: French title)

Lilies

Lilies (film)

Lilies is a 1996 Canadian film directed by John Greyson. It is an adaptation by Michel Marc Bouchard and Linda Gaboriau of Bouchard's own play Les feluettes. It depicts a play being performed in a prison by the inmates.-Expository narration:...

- Les feluettes (1996) (producer)

... aka Lilies (Canada: French title: short title)

External links

• Robin Cass at Internet Movie Database
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• Triptych Media Inc.