
Directing
Anita Reilly McGee
Place of birth
Elgin, Illinois, USA
Known for
Directing
Credits
28 titles
Anita Reilly McGee is an award-winning filmmaker whose shorts include "New Neighbours" (Canal+ Honorable Mention), "Little Dickie", (Venice, Toronto, Palm Springs, Sydney), and "Dinner For One", which won Best Short at Cinequest 2007 and the Runner Up certificate for the BAFTA/LA short film award. In 2003, she produced/directed her first feature "The Bread Maker", which debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival. She also produced the Gemini award-winning drama "Clothesline Patch" for CBC Television and was the line producer on the Showcase series "Kink" and the feature films "A Stone's Throw" (DIR: Camelia Frieberg, 2006) and "Whole New Thing" (DIR: Amnon Buchbinder, 2005). Reilly …
Known for
10.0A woman enters a bar and asks for a bit of conversation, but what she gets in return is a bunch of bad pickup lines sung to her by a cowboy and the bartender singing the cowboy's virtues.
Little Dickie
2002
Wheelchair-bound Grandpa may be 95 years old, but he's still young at heart. Even at his own birthday party, he is lured away by an ageing babe on an electric scooter. Proof indeed that you're never too old to play the game.
Electric Chairs
2006
This documentary looks at distinctive young artist Andrea Cooper's work. Cooper's credo is "home is not Hollywood, and I am not a movie star". Award-winning director Anita McGee examines how Cooper's art was shaped by her large Catholic family and the physical harshness of her birthplace.
Portrait of a 70 Foot Artist
2003
Jackie is a married woman whose husband has disappeared. As she deals with questions as to his whereabouts, her brother-in-law, Miles, arrives ostensibly to take up the reins of his brother's former life. What ensues is a pitched battle of mind games, machinations and manipulations as the relationship between two changes, deepens, and becomes dangerously potent.
The Pasta King of the Caribbean
1998
Grande Dame is a short in two Stand-alone parts: SEX IN SEVEN AGES and ENCORE!. In SEX IN SEVEN AGES, LILA , a trans-gendered Grande Dame of the theatre, gives a farewell performance to adoring fans. In ENCORE! three women in a small rural town pay their final respects to an eccentric relative.
Grande Dame
2009
A woman's calm, relaxed life of tea and books is abruptly halted when new neighbours move in.
New Neighbours
2000
Behind the camera
10.0A woman enters a bar and asks for a bit of conversation, but what she gets in return is a bunch of bad pickup lines sung to her by a cowboy and the bartender singing the cowboy's virtues.
Little Dickie
2002
10.0A woman enters a bar and asks for a bit of conversation, but what she gets in return is a bunch of bad pickup lines sung to her by a cowboy and the bartender singing the cowboy's virtues.
Little Dickie
2002
10.0A woman enters a bar and asks for a bit of conversation, but what she gets in return is a bunch of bad pickup lines sung to her by a cowboy and the bartender singing the cowboy's virtues.
Little Dickie
2002
Wheelchair-bound Grandpa may be 95 years old, but he's still young at heart. Even at his own birthday party, he is lured away by an ageing babe on an electric scooter. Proof indeed that you're never too old to play the game.
Electric Chairs
2006
Wheelchair-bound Grandpa may be 95 years old, but he's still young at heart. Even at his own birthday party, he is lured away by an ageing babe on an electric scooter. Proof indeed that you're never too old to play the game.
Electric Chairs
2006
This documentary looks at distinctive young artist Andrea Cooper's work. Cooper's credo is "home is not Hollywood, and I am not a movie star". Award-winning director Anita McGee examines how Cooper's art was shaped by her large Catholic family and the physical harshness of her birthplace.
Portrait of a 70 Foot Artist
2003
This documentary looks at distinctive young artist Andrea Cooper's work. Cooper's credo is "home is not Hollywood, and I am not a movie star". Award-winning director Anita McGee examines how Cooper's art was shaped by her large Catholic family and the physical harshness of her birthplace.
Portrait of a 70 Foot Artist
2003
Jackie is a married woman whose husband has disappeared. As she deals with questions as to his whereabouts, her brother-in-law, Miles, arrives ostensibly to take up the reins of his brother's former life. What ensues is a pitched battle of mind games, machinations and manipulations as the relationship between two changes, deepens, and becomes dangerously potent.
The Pasta King of the Caribbean
1998
Grande Dame is a short in two Stand-alone parts: SEX IN SEVEN AGES and ENCORE!. In SEX IN SEVEN AGES, LILA , a trans-gendered Grande Dame of the theatre, gives a farewell performance to adoring fans. In ENCORE! three women in a small rural town pay their final respects to an eccentric relative.
Grande Dame
2009
Grande Dame is a short in two Stand-alone parts: SEX IN SEVEN AGES and ENCORE!. In SEX IN SEVEN AGES, LILA , a trans-gendered Grande Dame of the theatre, gives a farewell performance to adoring fans. In ENCORE! three women in a small rural town pay their final respects to an eccentric relative.
Grande Dame
2009
Grande Dame is a short in two Stand-alone parts: SEX IN SEVEN AGES and ENCORE!. In SEX IN SEVEN AGES, LILA , a trans-gendered Grande Dame of the theatre, gives a farewell performance to adoring fans. In ENCORE! three women in a small rural town pay their final respects to an eccentric relative.
Grande Dame
2009
A woman's calm, relaxed life of tea and books is abruptly halted when new neighbours move in.
New Neighbours
2000
A woman's calm, relaxed life of tea and books is abruptly halted when new neighbours move in.
New Neighbours
2000
A woman's calm, relaxed life of tea and books is abruptly halted when new neighbours move in.
New Neighbours
2000
An operatic comedy about two neighbors with three things in common: they share a bathroom wall, a love of opera and a habit of taking their meals in the bath.
Dinner for One
2006
An operatic comedy about two neighbors with three things in common: they share a bathroom wall, a love of opera and a habit of taking their meals in the bath.
Dinner for One
2006
An operatic comedy about two neighbors with three things in common: they share a bathroom wall, a love of opera and a habit of taking their meals in the bath.
Dinner for One
2006
7.0This documentary shares the stories of seven women from Newfoundland who married American soldiers. From the beginning of World War II to the end of the Cold War, Newfoundland housed some of the largest military bases outside of the U.S. As a result, as many as 40,000 Newfoundland women married American soldiers. Using a combination of interviews and old war footage, Seven Brides for Uncle Sam shows how some of the most important events in world history can serve as the backdrop to the timeless tales of romance, heartbreak and joy.
Seven Brides for Uncle Sam
1997
7.0This documentary shares the stories of seven women from Newfoundland who married American soldiers. From the beginning of World War II to the end of the Cold War, Newfoundland housed some of the largest military bases outside of the U.S. As a result, as many as 40,000 Newfoundland women married American soldiers. Using a combination of interviews and old war footage, Seven Brides for Uncle Sam shows how some of the most important events in world history can serve as the backdrop to the timeless tales of romance, heartbreak and joy.
Seven Brides for Uncle Sam
1997
The work centres around St. John's poet Gerry Rubia and her poem Out On A Limb and takes a whimsical look at physical disability in a way that's truly Gerry. The piece hopes to capture her spirit and sense of humor.
Out on a Limb: a Poem by Geraldine Chafe Rubia
1993
The work centres around St. John's poet Gerry Rubia and her poem Out On A Limb and takes a whimsical look at physical disability in a way that's truly Gerry. The piece hopes to capture her spirit and sense of humor.
Out on a Limb: a Poem by Geraldine Chafe Rubia
1993
The work centres around St. John's poet Gerry Rubia and her poem Out On A Limb and takes a whimsical look at physical disability in a way that's truly Gerry. The piece hopes to capture her spirit and sense of humor.
Out on a Limb: a Poem by Geraldine Chafe Rubia
1993
Honey Reddigan is a celebrity at the Sweet Bea baking factory. She has just published her first romance novel, Carmen the Bee Keeper's Lover. Carmen, Honey's fictional heroine, is everything Honey ain't. In walks Edmund Goobie—a charming, commitment-phobic local TV personality. They begin a hot affair that quickly approaches relationship status. But happily-ever-after is not in the cards for this quirky couple. The affair comes to an end when they purchase a bread maker together and realize that they want different things. The monumental fight over the appliance forces Honey to change her life.
The Bread Maker
2003
Honey Reddigan is a celebrity at the Sweet Bea baking factory. She has just published her first romance novel, Carmen the Bee Keeper's Lover. Carmen, Honey's fictional heroine, is everything Honey ain't. In walks Edmund Goobie—a charming, commitment-phobic local TV personality. They begin a hot affair that quickly approaches relationship status. But happily-ever-after is not in the cards for this quirky couple. The affair comes to an end when they purchase a bread maker together and realize that they want different things. The monumental fight over the appliance forces Honey to change her life.
The Bread Maker
2003
10.0Clothesline Patch is the story of a young girl trying to keep a secret in a small Newfoundland outport (c. 1966), an unlikely setting for keeping secrets. The central focus is the clothesline patch, the communal clearing where washing is set out to dry. It is also the place where gossip is shared. Hannah is determined that her secret of becoming a woman must never reach the clothesline patch. To ensure this, she goes to extraordinary lengths to hide the fact that she has entered puberty, sometimes with amusing results.
Clothesline Patch
2000
A young girl unleashes 15 years of secrets when she tampers with her mother's trunk.
The Trunk
1995
A young girl unleashes 15 years of secrets when she tampers with her mother's trunk.
The Trunk
1995
A young girl unleashes 15 years of secrets when she tampers with her mother's trunk.
The Trunk
1995
