Genres: narrative

  • Garage Dreams

    Dave and Glen, two fresh-faced kids straight out of college, set about to write the next Oscar-winning script. If they can overcome the laughter and dissent of their parents, friends, foes, and the shadow of a famous ex-girlfriend, they just might escape their suburban garage and capture the Hollywood Dream.

  • Boys Next Door, The

    As these local boys remind you in this three-part work, you can never be sure what really goes on next door.

  • Baking with Butch, Episode 2

    “Crusty Tops and Hot Bottoms” Starring Nina Levitt with Guests Megan Richard and Megan Stanton. This time Butch is in the kitchen baking white bread and knitting up a storm!

  • Soul Cages

    This lyrical experimental / narrative film was inspired by the various myths of the Soul Cages. Legend states that the souls of drowned sailors are captured by underwater spirits and held in clay pots at the bottom of the ocean. A mortal man becomes compelled to set the souls free so that they can continue their afterlife journey. The film sets the legend in the present. It is the story about a relationship between a photographer and the man who possesses her film in a one-hour photo lab. I was inspired by the Soul Cages myth to construct a narrative…

  • Lady Godiva

    Shannon fixes her cravings for Lady Godiva chocolate bars.

  • Coming to Terms

    Damian sinks into desperation as he realizes that both he and his family have an arduous journey ahead if they are to heal old wounds and come to terms with his dawning sexuality.

  • Interviews with My Next Girlfriend

    The fight to win the title of next girlfriend is the subject of this hilarious short by director Cassandra Nicolaou. Starring a cast of Toronto celebrities including Ann-Marie Macdonald, Diane Flacks, Karen Robinson, Shoshana Sperling and Moynan King, nine women are questioned by an unknown interviewer to see if they measure up. Awards: Audience Award & Best Comedy, planetout.com/HBO Short Movie Awards; Audience Favourite, Palm Springs International Short Film Festival; Audience Award, Best Short Film, Inside Out Toronto Gay & Lesbian Film & Video Festival; Best Short Film, Paris Lesbian Film Festival; Audience Award, Best Fiction Film, Bologna International Women’s…

  • Chosen Family, The

    Families, whether chosen or biological, have a single aim – to drive us nuts, as this astute and comic film demonstrates.

  • Housesitter, The

    Two neurotic dykes describe in hilarious detail how to take care of their 3 cats.

  • Pineapple

    The film explores a triangular relationship between three women that explodes into violence when the woman controlling the relationship doesn’t get her way. It also explores the reality that to possess or control someone is not the same as loving them. Laura is a woman who desperately wants to possess her lover, but is insecure and unable to fully love her. In beginning Laura and Carrie are a happy couple, but as Laura has an affair with Cat, the relationship becomes unstable. Unable to control Carrie, Laura turns to physical and emotional abuse as her way of keeping Carrie under…