The Globe & Mail
Press
“If you have any doubt about the tremendous, inspiring, near-transcendent power that Canadian film can offer, then you must make a priority of watching Scarborough.”
The Hollywood Reporter
‘The Sandbox’ Doc Director on Her “Story About Power” and Hope to Make Us Think About How We Choose to Use, or Not Use, Technology as a Tool
The Globe & Mail
TIFF 2025: Why make a short film when you can also make a TV pilot?
The Toronto Star
Inspiring others behind the scenes
Canadian Immigrant magazine’s 11th annual Immigrant Women of Inspiration special
The Kit
Presenting the 2022 Power List of Canadian Women in Film
Canadian Women in Film: The 2022 Power List
Toronto Life’s New Hollywood North Edition
Despite a rookie cast and a microscopic budget, the poignant coming-of-age story became the breakout hit of TIFF last year.
The story behind Scarborough’s big screen success
Variety
The care with which those details are addressed, combined with the triptych take, results in a haunting story that deals with themes of trauma, grief, abuse and social injustice, all while doling out dashes of hope, resilience, and maybe even a call to action.
‘Scarborough’ Gives Ground-Breaking Voice to Ignored Toronto Community
The Film Stage
Bursts with a raw immediacy…one of the most impactful works of social realism in quite some time.
Scarborough is a moving institutional study of families failed by the system
NOW Toronto
Wrenching, uplifting and in so many ways ground-breaking…Watching Scarborough makes immediately apparent what we’ve been missing while the Canadian film industry kept busy making cottage porn or getting cute about emotional hang-ups in the Annex.
Scarborough is a new look for TIFF - and Canadian film
Complex Magazine
Urgent and deeply affecting…Nakhai and Williamson’s feature dramatic debut is especially extraordinary thanks to the rich, raw, and vulnerable performances they draw from the three young leads.
Meet the Next Generation of Canadian Filmmakers at TIFF21
She Does the City
Love is on every inch of every frame of this film…A shining example of the transformative power of film, and what happens when representation takes place on and off screen.
Scarborough is a love letter to its people