Diamond Tongues

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Diamond Tongues is a Canadian independent drama written by Pavan Moondi and co-directed by Moondi and Brian Robertson. The film was an official selection at the Slamdance, Nashville, Mexico International, and Mammoth Lakes Film Festivals, winning the Best Narrative Feature award at Mammoth Lakes. The film stars Leah Goldstein, Nick Flanagan, Leah Wildman, and Adam Gurfinkel.

Edith Welland dreams of being a successful actress but just can’t seem to make things happen. Things get worse when the ex-boyfriend she broke up with to focus on her career takes up acting on a whim and immediately books a leading role. When Edith can’t figure out what she’s doing wrong, she begins to do everything wrong. Diamond Tongues is a dramatic comedy about insecurity, uncertainty, unhealthy competition, and everything else between the lines.

Goldstein, one of the lead singers of Toronto band July Talk, was cast without an audition by Moondi and Robertson after they saw her play a show. “I became involved because my band July Talk was playing the Mongrel Media TIFF party down at the Brickworks last September, and we played a pretty wild show as July Talk shows tend to be; pretty spontaneous and chaotic. Brian and Pavan saw that show. Then we played another show at Adelaide Hall the next day and Pavan and Brian were introduced to me right before I went up on stage and started talking about this film, saying I should be in it. I was like “buuuut… I’m just a singer in a band. I don’t know anything about acting”. But I agreed to meet with them and read the script and became intrigued.”