SHORTS: CANADIAN BACON

THURSDAY 5 OCTOBER AT 1:15PM

DAY OF JOHN
Canada 16mm 16 mins Dir/S’playChristopher R Nash Prod
Albert Shin CastJesse Phillips, Sarafina DiFelice, Tim Meskes,
Razor-sharp black comedy/horror/drama about mid-life crisis,
suicide, child abuse, Satanism, demons and murder. You know,
the usual small-town Ontario stuff.

THE STRANGER [L'ÉTRANGER]
Canada DV 5 mins Director/Screenplay Guillaume Fortin
ProducerPierre-Mathieu Fortin Print SourceNitro Films
A man runs into a field, his hands dripping with blood. Who will
answer his desperate cries for help? Everyone is a threat.

HINTERLAND'S WHO'S WHO : THE WOOD SPIDER
Canada DV 2 mins Dir/Prod/S’play/DoPAndrew Struther
The Canadian Wood Spider enjoys a peaceful existence . Until a
team of scientists run some tests.

DUMB ANGEL
Canada DV 9 mins Director/S’playDeco Dawson DoPDeco
Dawson CastAnders Erickson P/SEndstop and Elsewhere
Drumming phenom Anders Erickson electrifies sound and image
in this hybrid experimental, music video, and documentary.

TENNESSEE
Canada DV 9 mins Director/Screenplay Denis Côté DoP
Christian Laurence CastRosivell Arevalo P/SNihil Productions
A woman, in a hotel suite, working hard to erase the traces,
cleaning last nights memory. What happened? In real life and in
fantasy?

RADIO
Canada 35mm 21 mins DirectorPatrick Boivin Screenplay Ian
Lauzon, Patrick Boivin ProducersStéphane Tanguay, Cédric
Bourdeau CastMartin Dubreuil, Marianne C. Miron P/SKinesis
Tom works the night shift in the immunology department of a
hospital. He buys himself a radio for company, but the 24-hour
newsreader slowly invades his thoughts and feeds his paranoia.

RED [LE ROUGE AU SOL]
Canada 35mm 16 mins DirectorMaxime Giroux ProducerPaul
Barbeau S’playAlexandre Laferrière DoPSara Mishara Cast
Martin Dubreuil, Monique Pion
After a tumultuous night out, an alcoholic man goes shopping
with his mother. Through exquisite acting and writing, the ensu-
ing car ride is filled with awkward chit-chat, until a moment of
brutal honesty reveals the demons lurking inside both of them.

BOB THE TRUCKER
Canada/Belgium DV 37 secs Dir/Prod/S’play/Animator
Guillaume Fortin Print SourceNitro Films
Sometimes the simplest pleasures are the best things in life.

THE RIP-OFF
Canada 35mm 10 mins Director Kun Chang Producers
Antonello Cozzolino, Annie Normandin, Kun Chang Screenplay
Richard Lemire DoPSteve Asselin CastRichard Lemire, Daniel
Tirado, Michel Perron, Elizabeth Walling, Jennifer Séguin
A man enters an electronics shop to benefit from a sale, but it
looks like it’s all a ripoff. But who is being had in the end?

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