Citation :
« Patricia Rozema's charming debut feature I've Heard the Mermaids Singing (1987) was not the first film from the [Toronto] New Wave—that honour would go to Atom Egoyan's Next of Kin (1984)—but it established the movement, in part, because of its international and domestic success. »
-- Steve Gravestock

Source :
GRAVESTOCK, Steve. « The Toronto New Wave » , dans World Film Locations: Toronto, sous la direction de Tom Ue, Bristol, Intellect, 2014. [en anglais] (p. 56)