Scarborough natives Ron Dias and Fefe Dobson team up for a film that looks at the intersecting lives of seven characters in the city’s Morningside Heights
It is such a Scarborough story – how singer-songwriter Fefe Dobson first met aspiring filmmaker Ron Dias, close to two decades ago, well beforeThe memory is hazy for Dobson, who thinks they met at a club in the early 2000s. They were two Scarborough kids who had made it out of what was then considered a troubled part of the city and were working their way through the entertainment industry.
So when Dias called up Dobson six years ago, with an idea for a feature film set in Scarborough, Dobson was all in. She plays the role of a nurse in the film, which looks at the intersecting lives of seven characters who connect through a fictional community centre in Morningside Heights, the neighbourhood Dobson grew up in.
“Music was a saving grace, to be honest. It was a way for me to disappear and make my own world.” It took her an hour on transit to get to school, a trip she’d endure by putting on her headphones. “Music was my gift, to get out and survive, really.”. Dobson eventually moved to Nashville in 2014, and took a hiatus from her own music career to focus on writing for other artists such as Miley Cyrus and Selena Gomez.
Growing up all over Scarborough, Dias thought the suburb could similarly be a character in a movie. Multiple experiences with gun violence was another important throughline, to show how innocent lives have been taken away because of pointless violence. But there was also the beauty of many different cultures abutting each other in the sprawling suburb.
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