John Kalangis is a

Canadian Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of ...

filmmaker, writer and actor, most noted for his films '' Jack and Jill'' and ''

Love Is Work ''Love Is Work'' is a Canadian drama film, directed by John Kalangis and released in 2005. The film centres on five different couples with different issues in their relationships.Jason Anderson"Love Is Work" ''The Globe and Mail'', June 8, 2007. ...

''. ''Jack and Jill'', his directorial debut, premiered in the Perspective Canada program at the

1998 Toronto International Film Festival The 23rd Toronto International Film Festival ran from September 10 to September 19, 1998. A total of 311 films were screened during the ten-day festival, commencing with the opening gala, ''The Red Violin''. Awards Programmes Gala Opening Nigh ...

. Kalangis also had a leading role in the film. His second film, ''Love Is Work'', was made through a process of improvisation, in which the actors were given broad story outlines but had to improvise their dialogue. It was shot at the Rhino, a restaurant in the Parkdale neighbourhood of

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.Bruce DeMara
"Love and work inspire improv performances"
''

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'', June 3, 2007. It was not originally intended as a film, but merely as a workshopping process toward the development of a screenplay; however, after struggling with the process and even undertaking a failed attempt to turn each scene into five separate short films, Kalangis and

Roland Schlimme Roland Schlimme is a Canadian film editor known in particular for his work with filmmakers Peter Mettler and Jennifer Baichwal. He's also worked on several projects with artists Phillip Barker and Laura Taler as well as filmmakers Alison Murray ...

edited the original footage together into a feature film. The film was the winner of the Audience Award at the 2005 Whistler Film Festival. In 2007, Kalangis released his third feature film, ''

The Mad ''The Mad'' is a 2007 comedy/horror film, starring Billy Zane and Maggie Castle, and directed and written by John Kalangis. Plot A doctor and his teenage daughter are terrorized by flesh-eating zombies at a truck stop. Cast * Billy Zane * Jame ...

''.Chris Knight, "What New Wave was to the 1960S, zombie comedies are to our twisted times". ''

National Post The ''National Post'' is a Canadian English-language broadsheet newspaper available in several cities in central and western Canada. The paper is the flagship publication of Postmedia Network and is published Mondays through Saturdays, with ...

'', March 6, 2007.

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