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TALLY ABECASSIS – NATP 1995-96
"The hands-on collaboration that I experienced as a result of the NATP was invaluable and instrumental in solidifying my craft as documentary filmmaker. In short, I can honestly say that the programme launched my career. It’s been a wonderful relationship made possible by the ACCT, the best match-making service in town!”
Tally Abecassis
A Montrealer, Tally Abecassis studied communications at Concordia University. She is a documentary filmmaker, radio producer and writer. Her first documentary, Warshaw on the Main, a slice-of-life film about a group of colourful cashiers working at a landmark Montreal supermarket, played numerous times on Canadian national television as well as in several festivals. Her next film, Lifelike, a documentary about the weird world of taxidermy, premiered at Hot Docs 2005, North America's most important documentary film festival, then went on to play at the Vancouver International Film Festival, the Brooklyn Underground Film Festival, SXSW, and London's Bird's Eye View, among others. Lifelike was been broadcast on several major networks, including CBC-Newsworld. Tally is currently completing Think Big, a documentary about 3 small-shopkeepers, that was shot over the course of six years.
AWARDS/TRIVIA
- In addition to her film work, Tally has produced several radio documentaries, primarily for CBC Radio One. Her radio piece, Canterbury Tale won the 2004 Radio-Television News Directors' Features Award. Tally was also part of the programming committee of the Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montreal, Montreal's documentary film festival from 2000-2003. In the Spring of 2005, Barbershops, a "documentary book" made in collaboration with photographer Claudine Sauvé, was released by UK-based Black Dog Publishing.
