'Breakfast With Scot' opens October 10th. Takes gay dads mainstream

Gay-hockey-dad-movie, Breakfast with Scot opened in select theaters this week.

Officially sanctioned by the NHL and the Toronto Maple Leafs, "Breakfast with Scot" represents the first time a professional sports league has allowed their logo and uniforms to be used in a gay-themed movie. During production, in an interview with the Toronto Star, Cavanagh said: "You have to give full credit to the NHL and the Leafs for signing on."

The film is the second feature for director Laurie Lynd, whose 3 short films, "Together and Apart," "RSVP," Genie-winner "The Fairy Who Didn’t Want to be a Fairy Anymore" and first feature, "House," all played at TIFF and SUNDANCE. Lynd has also had two television films open the Sprockets International Children’s Film Festival – "Virtual Mom," and the BBC mini-series "I Was a Rat," which won the YTV Silver Sprocket audience award as well as Best Children’s Program at the 2002 Banff International Television Festival.

"Breakfast with Scot" is the fifth film that producer Paul Brown ("I Love a Man in Uniform," "The Assistant," "Soul Survivor," "Virtual Mom," "Zeyda and the Hitman") and director Laurie Lynd have collaborated on, beginning with their award-winning short film, "RSVP", in 1991.

It also stars Graham Greene, Megan Follows, Fiona Reid, Colin Cunningham, Sheila McCarthy, Anna Silk, Benz Antoine, Shauna MacDonald, Robin Brule, Kathryn Haggis, Travis Ferris and Jeananne Goossen.