Film Categories: Youth

  • Jason’s Dad

    Days after his father’s suicide, Jason, a disgruntled teenager, intercepts a series of text messages from what appears to be a mistress. Using his father’s cell phone he sets up a meeting to confront the woman for answers. When they meet neither one are prepared to face the real truth about Jason’s dad.

  • Kissing Drew

    Inside a drab middle school in 1992, a sexually-confused eighth-grader attempts to regain his dignity after being bullied by a sex-obsessed ‘cool kid’ whom he privately fantasizes about.

  • Sunspots and Solar Flares

    Sunspots and Solar Flares combines found footage of children dancing from a 1968 Toronto educational film with excerpts of Robin Armstrong’s Nuclear war 1984?

  • Every Monday

    During a routine visit to his estranged Grandfather’s house, a young Boy accidentally destroys a gift with which his single-mother intended to win Grandfather back into her life. The Boy’s furtive effort to restore the object before his blunder is noticed, however, inadvertently inflicts a shift to an already complicated family dynamic.

  • The Urge 2: It Lies Within

    During a bizarre series of events, a vampire discovers that harmless humans, forest creatures and even his own body have turned against him.

  • Angst

    The story of the exquisite torture suffered by high school students on a daily basis. Our hero is both sullen and gay. He feels isolated and alienated but he is not alone – they’re all caught up in a big daisy chain of unrequited love and teen trauma.

  • Fairyland

    A whimsical journey into a land of beauty and nonsense.

  • Aileron

    A take on the myths of Sisyphus and Ophiuchus. The filmmaker imparts the ending of a motion to a rolling ball and likening it to that of psychosis that can be described as a giant rolling boulder. This “boulder” is symbolized by a medicine ball in the film.

  • Arrested Decay

    A film based on a novella of the same name by the filmmaker. A video poem where nations of dilapidated buildings is the focus and the richest peaceful nation lives in substandard housing and has an inadequate food supply.

  • Dear Tree

    A video poem about clear-cutting forestry and its effects on the air we breathe. The film draws parallels between present day and the renaissance.