I Killed My Mother

debut feature written, directed, produced by and starring xavier dolan at 19, shot for ca$800,000. dolan put $150,000 of his own savings from child acting into production, ran out of money halfway through, then secured $200,000 from quebec cultural development corporation sodec after his original producer and distributor backed out and production manager carole mondello came on board. dolan wrote the script at 17.