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lisa-wolofsky
In 2014, Lisa created the National Bank of Canada’s International Group within the media sector and offered an innovative array of specialized products, providing gap, mezzanine and revenue participation loans to clients worldwide with a focus on US Productions.
In addition to acting as an AVP at NBoC, Lisa acted as Producer on the film CARRIE PILBY ( Netflix). She also acted as executive producer on various films including SUBMERGENCE, directed by Vim Venders and starring Oscar winner Alicia Vikander and James McAvoy, WOMAN WALKS AHEAD starring Jessica Chastain, IDEAL HOME, starring Paul Rudd and Steve Coogan, THE WHITE CROW, directed by and starring Ralph Finnes, CROOKED HOUSE, starring Glenn Close, INDIGNATION starring Sarah Gadon and Logan Lerman, BRAIN ON FIRE starring Chloë Grace Moretz ,BEL CANTO starring Oscar winning actress, Julianne Moore and LAST FULL MEASURE starring Samuel L. Jackson and Sebastian Stan.
Lisa is also co-producing live theatre and musicals in London's West End and also on Broadway. Lisa is presently co-producing GET UP! STAND UP! the Bob Marley musical in London's West End as well as the upcoming revival of FUNNY GIRL coming to Broadway in Spring 2022 starring Beanie Feldstein and Jane Lynch.
Lisa sits on the Advisory Board of the Vespucci Group, Producers of fact-based storied across various media and PoA, an NFT Platform launched in 2021 with a focus on Music, Musical Theatre, Nonprofits and Artist Collectives.
Reviews
Nice Girl? (1941)
Thank You, Deanna!
I must start my review by stating that I was born in 1935 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, wherein I have lived my entire life to the present date and will continue to live here as long as I still exist. Canada was one of Great Britain's Dominions until it became a nation forming, to the present day, part of the British Commonwealth of Nations titularly led by the British monarch, presently the Queen.
Yesterday, by chance, for the very first time, I watched Nice Girl?, on my computer, it having been shown a few years ago on TCM. I knew nothing about it other than its star, Deanna Durbin, who's face and singing voice I had always adored as a kid. and that it was dated from 1941.
I found the movie to be delightful from the start. The actors and their acting were/was super; humour laughingly appropriate; small town U.S.A. July 4th festivities with Deanna's songs gorgeously sung and after Robert Stack climbed out from under the army truck and she sang the patriotic Thank You America so wholesomely, I had concluded that the movie, now ending, was indubitably worth 7 stars.
I was about to bestow them when suddenly, shockingly, something happened. She began to sing again! "There'll Always Be An England" a song we regularly heard on the radio, learned and sang in my pre-teen primary school years, and which I haven't heard again since the War's end. I was both dumbfounded and elated. A verification on IMDb showed me that filming of the movie took place from November 11, 1940 to January 1941. The big party took place on the July 4th weekend so it must have depicted July 1940, yet the U.S. didn't enter the war until Pearl Harbour, seventeen months later. even though her boyfriend left to join the army a day or two after that weekend. The army audience was there in full uniform to listen to her singing it!! Big unanswerable question!!
But it doesn't matter. She sang it so fulsomely, with such heart. I can still remember big parts of that song today. For that song, so sung, my score of the film's points MUST rise an additional minimal two points, from 7 to nine!
The Crimson Canary (1945)
NO Bread To Get
I saw this movie for the first time today and while the plot had next to nothing in it and the jazz was lots of fun to hear, there was one thing that lit me up. While I haven't heard "One Meat Ball" played or sung for at least 70 to 75 years when I was still a pre-teen, when I heard Josh White's rendition of it today, I was able to sing about 90% of it along with him as if I sang it just yesterday so that the little man would still know for sure the waiter's words that "you got no bread with one meat ball."
That in itself is worth two extra points in my rating.