Cas & Dylan

Jason Priestley’s Cas & Dylan and Woody Allen’s Blue Jasmine are the winners of Toronto International Film Festival’s 10th annual Film Circuit People’s Choice Awards. Cas & Dylan was named Best Canadian Film and Blue Jasmine was selected as the Best International Film.

“It is an unbelievable thrill and honour for us to be chosen as Best Canadian Film by the 2013 Film Circuit audiences,” said Priestley. “For our film to receive such accolades is an unexpected pleasure. Thank you.”

In Priestley’s directorial debut, Cas & Dylan, screen legend Richard Dreyfuss stars as Dr. Cas Pepper, a curmudgeonly surgeon who makes the abrupt decision to leave Winnipeg and drive west to British Columbia—and to an uncertain future. Before departing, he meets an aspiring young writer named Dylan (TIFF Rising Star Tatiana Maslany; Canadian Screen Award winner for Orphan Black) who possesses a life-altering secret of her own. The two unlikely companions hit the road, encountering a series of bizarre twists and turns along their cross-country journey.Cas & Dylan has screened in over 40 communities across Canada with Film Circuit and has been seen by over 5,500 people to date.

Blue Jasmine

Blue Jasmine follows a high-society New York housewife forced to deal with the economic and emotional consequences of her husband’s crooked financial dealings. Jasmine (Cate Blanchett, in an Oscar-winning role) is used to a life of wealth and privilege, but when her husband (Alec Baldwin) is jailed for a Madoff-like Ponzi scheme, she loses everything and is forced to move in with her blue-collar sister Ginger (Sally Hawkins) in San Francisco. As she struggles to build a new life for herself, Jasmine must learn to accept her new reality and face up to the past.

Now in its tenth year, the annual Film Circuit People’s Choice Awards are decided by audiences across the country who vote for their favourite film shown at a Film Circuit screening.