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Jordan Rennert (Los Angeles, CA)
I have been working on Cosplay Universe since 2015, so that means it’s been about seven years! I met Lauren St. Laurent while working on a previous film with my filmmaking partner Patrick Meaney: that film was ’Chris Claremont’s X-Men’. We connected with Lauren because she had some incredible X-Men cosplays that we discovered online.…
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Leaving Mundania (2010)
Leaving Mundania explores the colourful lives of “cosplayers” by delving beyond the common stereotypes of anime enthusiasts who express their fandom through costuming and roleplay. This film follows several cosplayers from the Greater Toronto Area as they prepare for their annual pilgrimage to Anime North, the largest anime fan convention in Canada. Through candid footage…
