SUNDAY
AUGUST 31, 9:00 PM
PROGRAM 8
Letter to the Editor
Canada | Drama | 10 min
Director/Writer: Bronwen Lewis
Producer: Adrian Reyes
Cast: Annalee Dimpfel, Jordon Fiddler
Following the end of her life, April finds herself in a weird purgatory that takes the form of a movie theatre. When the skeezy usher shows her the entirety of her life on film, she must choose between altering her life history forever, or dying without closure.
Kelly's Apartment
Canada | Drama | 12 min
Director/Writer: Suzanne Lacey, Kate Stephens
Producer: Dermot Stephens
Cast: Kate Stephens
After moving to an off-campus apartment in the shadow of the former prison for women, known locally as P4W, a queer university student is visited by ghostly apparitions and is forced to face her own haunting reality.
Bad Friends
Canada | Drama | 12 min
Director: Mikelle Virey
Writer: Mikelle Virey, Mathew Edmondson
Producer: Mikelle Virey, Mathew Edmondson
Cast: Ticoon Kim, Mathew Edmondson
After taking the fall for a previous scam, Max returns from jail to confront his former best friend and partner Chris about their shady past before proposing one last job: to steal back their money from the cop that wronged them.
The Door
Canada | Thriller | 9 min
Director/Writer: Joel Ruscinski
Producer: Joel Ruscinski
Cast: Hedy Gregor
An agoraphobic woman is tormented by the disturbing commotion outside her door.
The Pill
Canada | Drama | 10 min
Director: Jasmine Quirk
Writer: Jasmine Quirk, Zara Ferreira
Producer: Jasmine Quirk
Cast: Rebecca Birrell, Mark Manchurek, Rachel Cucheron
Diane, a 1960s housewife and mother of three, must reflect on her future as a mother—her great joy and purpose in life—when her husband tells her to begin taking the newly approved contraceptive pill.
Big Nose Society
Canada | Comedy | 9 min
Director/Writer: Hugo van Essen
Producer: Jordan Lamers
Cast: Bartu Suer, Ethan Keyes
In this comedic short film, an anxious pledge wants to be initiated into Big Nose Society, a fraternity where everyone has large noses, so he must prove his nose is big enough by smoking a cigar under the shower before they find out his nose is fake.
Double It
Canada | Drama | 16 min
Director: Minas Adonai, Yodit Adonai
Writer: Jamal Sanca
Producer: Veronika Latkina
Cast: Neké Andeh, Yaw Antwi-boasiako, Demitri Gordon
Sparks, Natural and Dem, inseparable friends since childhood, travel to an affluent Toronto neighbourhood in hopes of selling a pair of rare sneakers to a prospective buyer. When the validity of their product is called into question, they’re forced to make a swift decision as tensions rise to a perilous boiling point.
Finesse
Canada | Drama | 11 min
Director: Abdul Mohaimen, Steven Dimitropoulos
Writer: Abdul Mohaimen
Producer: Chad Tailor
Cast: Kearsten Johansson, Abdul Mohaimen, Chad Tailor