Movie Role in Production of "Crow City"

Chloe was raised in a conservative Chinese immigrant family and was told that because she was a girl that she would never be anything other than a housewife or a teacher, and she had spent her life fighting against that. In university she became involved in women's rights movements, particularly those in developing countries. She met Walter and eventually they married and had a daughter, Zhia.

Jerome’s mother died when he was young and he was raised by his single father who preached hard work and self sacrifice. Jerome rebelled against this by embracing new age spirituality and self-focused hedonism. While studying to be a social worker in university he became involved in environmental causes and attended eco-rave protests.

Rossi was born to a wealthy mercantile family in Chile during the seventies, and was sent abroad to private schools for his education. He came to Canada to attend a university art school and cultivated a Bohemian painter persona. He met Jerome and became nominally involved in the Latin American anti-right wing political protest movement. After university he leveraged his artistic skills and his family money into a successful design company.

Cassy moved to Vancouver from The prairies in her early twenties and began work as a bartender in the city's bar scene. She became bar manager at Infinite Juiced, a late night drinking hole where she received a lot of attention from male patrons. Over her twenties, after several bad experiences with men, she became more cautious about her romantic affairs, being disillusioned with men who only valued her for her sexuality.

Martin came out as gay when he was in university studying communication and cultural studies, and he soon became involved in AIDS-era advocacy work. He also started an academic journal concerned with issues of media criticism and cultural literacy and continued publishing it after he graduated and began teaching at the post secondary level.

ADDITIONAL CHARACTER. Grant was raised in a working class Ukrainian family and was the first to attend university. He has a strong social conscience and has made a modest career making social issues documentaries.

ADDITIONAL CHARACTER. Bruce was the oldest son of a conservative Catholic Philippine family. Excelling in his studies, he was sent to Canada to attend University and he came out as gay in during his studies, and then graduated in health care administration. He became a citizen and established a career in a large Vancouver hospital. Despite identifying as queer he was not interested in a liberal lifestyle, and longed for a more traditional family oriented lifestyle.

ADDITIONAL CHARACTER. Coco comes from a middle class family, and got into a party-girl lifestyle in college. She met Cassy when she got a job working at Infinite Juiced while still in school. She graduated with a degree in marketing and began working in the field, while still working at the bar to make extra money and for the lifestyle.

ADDITIONAL CHARACTER. Olena was born in Bulgaria just before the collapse of communism. Her family emigrated to Canada when she was young and she had a ‘typical’ Canadian upbringing, strongly internalizing western materialist values. She studied biochemistry in university and could have pursued a career in that field, but decided that she would struggle to make enough money. She got a real estate license and began practicing as an agent.