Mozart started his career as a composer at the age of four, when he began composing piano pieces. At the age of five he was composing minuets and by age nine he had composed his first symphony. He wrote 20 complete operas, his final and most spectacular being The Magic Flute, which he wrote in the last year of his life at age 35. Mozart was a combination of the revolutionary compositional brilliance of modern day composers such as John Lennon and Paul McCartney with the groundbreaking performance individuality of an Elvis Presley—all rolled into one. He was the ultimate iconic pop-star of the 18th century who traveled across Europe on tour, each one more outstanding than the next. Fortunately for a modern audience his genius has never faded. In celebration of his 250th birthday I wanted to capture some of his most joyous work on film, and decided that a contemporary movie version of The Magic Flute might be workable if told as the backdrop to a modern love story, conveyed on a fantastical scale.

As part of Sullivan Entertainment’s Ultimate Classic Heroine Contest on our official Facebook pages (Anne of Green Gables, Road to Avonlea, Wind at My Back and Sullivan Entertainment), we are celebrating some of the most famous female characters in literature and film.  Each day, we’ll post a profile on one of these inspirational women, starting with Alice in Wonderland.

Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Warren Christie came to Canada at a young age. His family and he moved to London, Ontario and he then attended the University of Windsor on a football scholarship. Even though he loved football, he realized his true talent and joy was acting.

"There is such a place as fairyland - but only children can find the way to it. And they do not know that it is fairyland until they have grown so old that they forget the way. One bitter day, when they seek it and cannot find it, they realize what they have lost; and that is the tragedy of life...