THURSDAY
DECEMBER 15, 7:00PM
PROGRAM 1
Shopping Cart
Canada | Drama | 3 min
Director: Mymona Khan
Cast: Sara Sian
A burglar tries to steal a shopping cart with great might
Popcorn
Canada | Drama | 3 min
Director: Sean Williams
Writer: Darius Rathe
Producer: Isaac Rathe
Cast: Katelyn Doyle
A dispute is settled over Popcorn.
Memoirs
Canada | Animation | 2 min
Director/Writer: Dennis Tae Wook Kim
Producer: Dennis Tae Wook Kim
An experimental animated short following a lone traveler as he ventures through a vast landscape inspired by the spatial solitude of Iceland. Along the way he finds large monuments that pay tribute to a personal body of sculptures and paintings from the artist's past.
Blooming
Canada | Romance | 7 min
Director/Writer: Zach Closs
Producer: Joe Craib
Cast: Rosalie Tremblay, Enho Kuo
The story of a young couple linked by trauma and cryptic tattoos, across summer, fall, and winter.
Heaven and Earth; A Ritual
Canada | Fable | 12 min
Director/Writer: Bruno Verdoni
Producer: Marianne Sawchuk, Bruno Verdoni
Cast: Bruno Verdoni, Marianne Sawchuk, Sera-Lys McArthur
This fable is set in the harsh 1880's. When an Indigenous woman runs away from an abusive man to protect her newborn, she crosses paths with a hermit who plays out a nihilistic ritual. After a horrible tragedy, he gave up on life and retreated to the woods. An important participant throughout is a beautiful horse, a painted pinto who just may bring a different color to the Western genre.
Mayonnaise
Canada | Comedy | 17 min
Director/Writer: Eli Speigel
Producer: Zack Khan, Daniel Feldman-Green, Joshua Rosen
Cast: Jack Hirschfield, Veronika Slowikowska, Abbas Wahab
A disgruntled film production assistant seeks advice from a young, eccentric producer with sadistic tendencies.
ADHD - Säye Skye
Canada | Experimental | 5 min
Director: Sina Dolati
Producer: Säye Skye
Cast: Säye Skye, Golsa Shafa
A Persian music video that celebrates Attention Hyperactivity Disorder as a superpower through a lens of comedy and science fiction.
Entropic
Canada | Drama | 16 min
Director: Sydney Posliff
Writer: John Robert Marshall
Producer: John Robert Marshall
Cast: Larissa Siqueira, Jason Pennell, Kody Poisson
A scientist grapples with her sanity as she tries to take down a large oil company.
Time Runner 2048
Canada | Drama | 14 min
Director/Writer: Beny Pirzadeh
Producer: Beny Pirzadeh, Alex Likernyy
Cast: Beny Pirzadeh, Alex Likernyy, Howard Hamilton
Beny is a resistance fighter from the year 2048 who is working to dismantle The Corp. Driven to the point of desperation, he strike's a deal with Void (a lethal cybernetically enhanced criminal).
Love You, Goodbye
Canada | Drama | 11 min
Director/Writer: Nick Laws
Producer: Carey Stein
Cast: Daryl Marks