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Jessica Yu's Quiz Lady to premiere at TIFF

Sandra Oh and Awkwafina play the lead roles 

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Quiz Lady, the upcoming film starring Sandra Oh and Awkwafina, will have a world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Quiz Lady will centre on a dysfunctional family for whom a game show comes as a saviour. The lead actors play as “two very different sisters” who are pushed to pay their mother’s debts raised from gambling, by going to a quiz show.

Besides Awkwafina and Sandra Oh, the film also stars Jason Schwartzman, Holland Taylor, Tony Hale and Will Ferrell. The film is directed by Jessica Yu with script penned by Jen D'Angelo.

The producers of the film are Jessica Elbaum, Maggie Haskins, Itay Reiss, D’Angelo, Awkwafina and Oh. Alex Brown and Erika Hampson will serve as the executive producers.

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