| Cole | |
| Director: | Carl Bessai |
| Producer: | Carl Bessai Dylan Thomas Collingwood Irene Nelson Kimani Ray Smith |
| Starring: | Richard de Klerk Kandyse McClure Chad Willett Rebecca Jenkins Sonja Bennett |
| Music: | Clinton Shorter |
| Cinematography: | Carl Bessai |
| Editing: | Mark Shearer |
| Studio: | Rampart Films Titlecard Pictures |
| Runtime: | minutes |
| Country: | Canada |
| Language: | English |
Cole is a Canadian drama film, directed by Carl Bessai and released in 2009.[1]
The film stars Richard de Klerk as Cole Chambers, a young man from Lytton who longs to escape his smalltown existence with his dysfunctional family.[1] He is accepted into a university creative writing program in Vancouver, where he begins a romance with Serafina (Kandyse McClure), but faces a difficult choice when his friends and family back home struggle to survive without his presence.[2] The cast also includes Rebecca Jenkins as Cole's mentally ill mother, Sonja Bennett as his sister Maybelline, and Chad Willett as Maybelline's abusive husband Bobby.[3]
The film premiered at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival,[4] and screened at a number of other film festivals before going into commercial release in 2010.[2]
Chad Willett won the Leo Awards for Best Supporting Performance by a Male in a Feature Length Drama in 2010
Bennett received a Genie Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress at the 31st Genie Awards.[5]