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Ricky Tollman is a South African [1] filmmaker, screenwriter, and producer . Early life. Tollman was born in Johannesburg, South Africa and grew up in the Sandton area before immigrating with his family to Toronto, Canada. [2] Career. In 2014, Tollman co-produced The Calling.
Ricky Tollman is known for Run This Town (2019), Jonathan (2018) and The Gymnast.
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- Ricky Tollman
- Former City Councillor Joe Mihevc
- Toronto Star Investigative Reporter Kevin Donovan
- Allison Smith, Publisher of Politics Today
- Ricky Tollman, Writer and Director of Run This Town
As a longtime city councillor, Joe Mihevc says the film focuses on Ford's salacious side but misses what attracted voters. While Mihevc was no fan of Ford's politics, he says the mayor wasn't mean-spirited to his staff, as portrayed in the movie. Mihevc says the Rob he knew was quite shy. "He would have been the guy who when he got into a room woul...
In the real world, it was Toronto Star reporters Kevin Donovan and Robyn Doolittle who first viewed the video of Ford smoking crack. But you won't find them in the new film. Instead Ben Platt plays the character Bram, who gets a tip when he answers a random phone call. "The first time I watched it I felt angry that they had taken that licence and e...
Allison Smith was reporting on provincial politics in 2013 and 2014 and she remembers watching the pack of reporters chasing Rob Ford. She says the film gets some of the little details right, such as how reporters would reverse-engineer the mayor's social media to construct a daily schedule of events. One of her problems with Run This Townis how it...
Tollman says it would have been irresponsible to write the film using journalists' real names. He says there are a lot of reporters with integrity who worked on the Rob Ford story, but that is not his movie. Tollman says part of his inspiration was seeing the frustration of his brother, who studied journalism and spent his time updating a news craw...
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Mar 6, 2020 · Run This Town: Directed by Ricky Tollman. With Ben Platt, Mena Massoud, Damian Lewis, Nina Dobrev. An emerging political scandal in Toronto in 2013 seen through the eyes of young staffers at city hall and a local newspaper.
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Feb 28, 2020 · Run This Town's writer/director Ricky Tollman, left, with producer Randy Manis. (David Leyes photo) The wildly anticipated movie Run This Town follows three millennials struggling to find their place in the world against the backdrop of the Rob Ford scandal that engulfed Toronto in 2013.
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Mar 5, 2020 · With details lifted from police reports and local media, writer and director Ricky Tollman sticks close to the Ford saga in surprising detail. Real city hall footage plays over the opening...
