PAT MILLS
writer/director
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Pat Mills’s first feature film, the dark comedy GUIDANCE, had its world premiere at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival. Picked up by Strand Releasing in the USA and Search Engine Films in Canada, Guidance was hailed as a “Grade A” comedy by the Los Angeles Times and was a New York Times Critics' Pick.
An alumnus of NSI, CFC as well as TIFF’s Talent lab and TIFF Studio, Pat was named winner of TIFF’s Pitch This for his second feature DON'T TALK TO IRENE. The screenplay won Best Comedy Screenplay at the Austin Screenplay Competition. Released in 2018 starring newcomer Michelle McLeod, Bruce Gray, Scott Thompson and Oscar-winner Geena Davis, Don’t Talk to Irene had its world premiere at TIFF 2017 and went on to win the Comedy Vanguard Feature Award and Audience Award at the 2017 Austin Film Festival, Audience Choice at the 2018 Kingston Canadian Film Festival, the Galet d’or (Grand Prize) at Festival du film Canadien en Dieppe, as well as two Canadian Comedy Awards: Best Writing in a Feature and Best Feature.
Pat was listed as one of MovieMaker Magazine’s 25 Screenwriters to Watch and was University of Toronto’s Universal Studios Screenwriter-in-Residence in 2018-19.
Directing credits include QUEENS, created by Justin Gray, a drag queen comedy series, currently streaming on CBC Gem (Harlow Creative/Caitlin Brown). Pat is currently in post-production on the queer thriller, THE RETREAT, written and produced by Alyson Richards for ARP/Clique Pictures. Pat continues to develop several TV series and feature films.
Recently Pat directed Lifetime's first LGBTQ+ Christmas movie, THE CHRISTMAS SETUP, starring Ben Lewis, Blake Lee, Ellen Wong, Chad Connell and Fran Drescher, which aired December 2020 to positive reviews.
He is represented by Great North Artists Management in Canada and Verve Talent and Literary Agency in the USA.
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NEWS
January 28, 2021
GLAAD: The Christmas Setup nominated for Glaad Media Award for Outstanding TV Movie
December 11, 2020
GLAMOUR: The Lifetime Gay Christmas Movie Totally Broke Me—So, Yup, It Worked
December 11, 2020
BUSTLE: The Best Queer Holiday Movie Of The Season Is On Lifetime
December 11, 2020
O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE: Lifetime's The Christmas Setup Is the LGBTQ Holiday Movie I Never Thought I'd Get to See
December 10, 2020
VANITY FAIR: The Best Christmas Movies of 2020, from Hallmark to Lifetime to Netflix
December 9, 2020
ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT: Why the Stars of Lifetime's First Gay Holiday Movie Hope It's a 'Conversation Starter'
November 13, 2020
PEOPLE MAGAZINE: See Fran Drescher Play a Meddling Mom in Trailer For The Christmas Setup — Starring a Real-Life Gay Couple!
September 14, 2020
DEADLINE: Lifetime Sets Cast For Holiday Movies 'The Christmas Setup & ‘Sugar & Spice Holiday’:
Fran Drescher, Ben Lewis, Jackie Lai, More
June 18, 2020
THE TV JUNKIES: 'Queens' looks to highlight Toronto's hard-working and talent drag community
June 1, 2020
CBC: 'Queens' premiere event with Pride Toronto
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