SAG Award-nominee Alexandra Billings (Transparent) will star in, and executive produce the upcoming trans revolutionary indie feature, Queen Tut.Fae Pictures is financing and producing the film in association with Hawkeye Pictures with the participation of Telefilm Canada and Ontario Creates.
The producing team will be attending the Cannes Market meeting with international sales prospects.Queen Tut will be directed by Egyptian-Canadian up-and-coming filmmaker Reem Morsi (The Last Mark), and is based on a script from Bryan Mark, Kaveh Mohebbi, and Abdul Malik.
The story follows a shy Egyptian teenager who is discovering a new life in Toronto after his seamstress mother passes away in Cairo.
He befriends a trans mother, played by Billings, who inspires him to resurrect his mother’s soul in himself by sewing and donning the magnum opus dress that she never completed making.Production is expected to begin in August at and in partnership with the York University Motion Media Studio at Cinespace Studios in Toronto.
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