Film Categories: Work by Women

  • it’s easier to pick sours than sweets

    A conversation about cherries, as illustrated by the shape of ducks and the motion of cherry blossom petals, as demonstrated on celluloid soaked in cherry juice.

  • Golden Years

    Eve, an unhappy but successful sex worker who is saving money for surgery, discovers an abandoned baby. With the good but poorly formulated intentions of Joe – a strange client with a Christmas fetish – the couple decide to raise the baby.

  • Latecomers

    Margaret was a married father of five until she had gender reassignment surgery at the age of 58; Peter, 53, just told his family he is gay, but he’s determined to stay with his wife. “Latecomers” looks at why Margaret and Peter waited so long to come out of the closet, how their families reacted and how their lives are changing.

  • Jay Dreams

    “Jay Dreams” uses Jai Brook’s ironic poetry to bring humanity and humor to sometimes awkward moments in the on-going struggle for LGBT people to self-define, find safe partnerships, and gain acceptance. Catherine Pancake uses improvised documentary footage of Jai Brooks and his partner, Monique Meadows, to present the realities of daily life. Special vignettes shot in colour 16mm highlight more idealized (fantasized?) images. The interplay between fantasy and reality provides a humorous and entertaining backdrop to find human commonalities across race, gender, and sexual orientation.

  • Dinner at Lucy’s

    During a dinner party, a gesture between two men suggests that their wives are not the only ones keeping a secret.

  • Immature

    After moving apartments, Paula and Sue are experiencing strife in their relationship. Sue, ever the fixer, decides that the way to make Paula happy is to get married, but Paula finds her own resolution.

  • Rockin’ The Rainbow

    Abby has just had her first sexual experience with a woman and confides in her older, outspokenly lesbian sister Emma, expecting some kind of sound advice…

  • 5 Dysfunctional People in a Car

    A 43-year-old woman, her 21-year-old boyfriend, her unhappily married sister, an aging mother and a burgeoning lesbian niece take a ride into discontent one winter’s afternoon. Selected Screenings: Toronto International Film Festival, 2009; Vancouver International Film Festival, 2009; Inside Out LGBT Film & Video Festival, 2010 (Toronto, ON)

  • Bathers, The

    Three naked bathers gather at the river on a warm day in September. The film was a commission from Ladyfest Ottawa and the Independent Filmmakers Cooperative of Ottawa. Eight women were given the theme of sexuality and two rolls of Super-8 film. I wanted to capture something wild and free, unfettered by society – human sexuality in nature.

  • Tracking Sasquatch (field report #1)

    A search for the elusive Sasquatch. The first chapter in an ongoing series.