UNREPENTANT: the making of a film series
a talk by Jennifer Dale, performing with Nicky Guadagni
Monday, March 3, 7:30 PM
Free Times Café 320 College Street PWYC
Jennifer Dale’s talk will focus on UNREPENTANT, a film series profiling iconic women of the past, whose stories and impact have been obscured by the vagaries of history. The talk will trace the series’ naissance, its development and the filming of several titles, in collaboration with other actresses, writers and filmmakers. The films’ subjects are women as diverse as actresses Eleonora Duse and Tallulah Bankhead, Empress Theodora of Byzantium, Hypatia of Alexandria, Egyptian Pharaoh Hatshepsut, Empress Catherine the First of Russia, medieval Abbess Heloise du Paraclete, artists Artemisia Gentileschi, Harriet Hosmer, Emily Carr, Hilma af Klint and Dorothea Tanning; poets Veronica Franco, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and Mary Shelley; philosophers Margaret Cavendish and Hannah Arendt, scientist Mary Somerville, and existentialist Simone de Beauvoir whose novella Inseparable serves as inspiration for the script Jennifer Dale will read from with actor Nicky Guadagni.
Jennifer Dale is a veteran actor of Canadian theatre, film and television. She is the recipient of an Outstanding Achievement Award from Toronto Women in Film and Television and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Academy of Canadian Film and Television, as well as international awards for her leading role in the feature film Into Invisible Light which she also co-wrote. Selected film credits include, Suzanne, The Adjuster, Cadillac Girls, Whale Music, and most recently David Cronenberg’s The Shrouds. Television roles include, Saving Hope, Suits, Lost Girl, Schitt’s Creek, Grand Larceny, Rumours, Monk, Sex Life, Coroner, among others. Since 2022 she has spearheaded Unrepentant, the series profiling iconic women of history, as the lead writer, producer and actor.
Nicky Guadagni has been an actress for more than 50 years performing on stage, many CBC radio dramas, TV and film and been nominated for five Gemini awards and won two. She was a member of the repertory company for A&E’s Nero Wolfe, and a member of the cast of the film Cube. Recently she was seen as Aunt Helene in the film Ready or Not and a guest spot on Reacher. She has produced two one person shows - Hooked (for which she won the best actress award for Toronto’s Dora Mavor Moore award) and SMART, the story of the Canadian/British writer Elizabeth Smart which played at Videocab in the spring of 2025.
Event Venue
Free Times Cafe, 320 College Street,Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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