Cardinals (film)

Cardinals is a 2017 Canadian thriller film directed by Grayson Moore and Aidan Shipley. The film stars Sheila McCarthy as Valerie Walker, a woman who has just recently been released from prison after killing a coworker in a drunk driving incident, when Mark (Noah Reid), the son of the man she killed, shows up on her doorstep demanding answers of his own.

Cardinals, part of Telefilm Canada's Micro-Budget Production Program, was filmed in Stratford, Kitchener, and Barrie, Ontario.

The film premiered in the Discovery section at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival.

Cast

 * Sheila McCarthy as Valerie Walker
 * Katie Boland as Eleanor Walker
 * Grace Glowicki as Zoe Walker
 * Noah Reid as Mark Loekner
 * Peter MacNeill as Jim Walker
 * Peter Spence as Jonah Pastekh

Awards
At the 2017 Whistler Film Festival, Moore won the award for Best Screenplay in a Borsos Competition Film.

For her performance as Valerie Walker, Sheila McCarthy won the 2018 ACTRA Toronto Award for Outstanding Performance, Female.