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QUEEN TUT

By Reem MORSI

Social issues - Development 2019

A shy Egyptian teenager, transitioning into a new life in Toronto, befriends an aging drag queen who challenges him to sew and don the magnum opus dress that his seamstress mother never completed.

Festivals
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Whistler Film Festival 2017

Power Pitch

InsideOut Film Finance Forum 2018

Official Selection

- Year of production
- 2019
- Genres
- Social issues, First film, LGBT
- Countries
- CANADA
- Languages
- ENGLISH-CANADA, ARABIC-EGYPT
- Budget
- 1 - 3 M$
- Duration
- 90 mn
- Director(s)
- Reem MORSI
- Writer(s)
- Bryan MARK
- Producer(s)
- Ingrid VENINGER (PUNK FILMS INC.), Shant JOSHI (Fae Pictures)
- Synopsis
- Following the death of his mother, a local seamstress from Cairo, NABIL HADDID, a 17-year-old Egyptian moves to Toronto to live with his estranged father, an eminent international architect.
  Pushed by Iskander to embrace and discover the city that his parents once shared, Nabil wanders Toronto trying to connect with his mother's favorite places. Losing his way home, Nabil lands at an underground drag bar. Having never experienced this world before and confident in his heterosexuality, Nabil’s senses are overloaded by the queer oddities of the nightclub. Though he may not identify with the community, he soon finds an affinity with their rebellious nature.
  Nabil ends up finding a friend in an older, low-income trans drag queen, MALIBU. Nabil enlists Malibu to teach him how to sew the magnum opus dress that his mother never finished before passing. As Malibu mentors Nabil, the two become closer and when the dress is complete Malibu challenges Nabil to wear it. Nabil outright refuses, worrying that he would never belong in the world of drag. But Malibu does not relent and soon enough teaches Nabil the ways of drag, ushering in Nabil’s alter ego, Queen Tut.
- Partners & financing
- Telefilm Canada - Canadian Feature Film Fund
  Ontario Media Development Corporation - Film Fund
  CBC Breaking Barriers Fund
  Liquid Media Group
- Production schedule
- N/A
- Beginning of shooting
- Aug 03, 2020
- End of shooting
- Aug 28, 2020

QUEEN TUT

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