Genres: narrative

  • Babysitting Andy

    What do you do if you’re nine and nobody will tell you what ‘fellatio’ means? If Andy, the most curious nine year-old, has a question, she will do anything to get the answer. When Andy’s uncle and his boyfriend arrive to babysit, Andy is not on her best behaviour, armed with a supersoaker and a devious mind, Andy corners the men, who can do nothing but comply.

  • Dead Boyfriends

    Fire! Blood! Puppet death! Follow the fate of foolish Coyote as he falls for vampy Pandora, a cursed temptress with a taste for dodgy circus performers. Coyote gets drawn deeper into Pandora’s lair of love as each of her lovers dies mid-act. This dark comedic short by Cirque Du Soleil clown Mooky Cornish and performance artist Xstine P. Cook was shot in the beautiful foothills of southern Alberta, combining live-action & puppet sequences to tell Coyote’s sordid tale. A creepy puppet band from hell accompanies a gory feast of accidental deaths performed by stop-motion, shadow, marionette, and hand and rod…

  • Berated Woman

    An Orthodox Jewish woman finds herself strangely attracted to the Aryan Supermom bent on converting her to Christianity. Both women want something from the other, but what is each willing to sacrifice to achieve her goals?

  • This Kiss

    Lucy and Juliet were inseperable best friends whose lives took very different paths after high school. Now, ten years later, on the night of their high school reunion, Juliet turns up unannounced on Lucy’s front door and the two women barely recognize each other. Together they struggle to resurrect their friendship by confronting the heartbreaking event that tore them apart.

  • Gay Zombie

    A sexually confused zombie goes on an adventure through West Hollywood where he makes friends and meets a special someone named Todd. His new buddies help him come to terms and try to assimilate him into normal life. Everything is peachy until his flesh eating appetite can no longer be subdued. Will Miles be able to control himself? Will his bloody ways be too much for a boy to bear? Find out during this hilarious ride of undead love.

  • Dark Island, The

    A man reminisces about the day in his adolescence when he was told of his grandfather’s death. The news acts as a catalyst for a seminal, disturbing experience; in retrospect, he realizes that he was forced to confront his growing independence from his family and particularly, his younger brother. “The Dark Island” conveys this epiphanic moment, an illuminating turn in the man’s life, by abruptly shifting rhythm and by emphasizing subjective sound. Moving from an urban to a rural environment and employing voiceovers which overlap the present and the past, the film evokes the inevitability of familial separation and the…

  • And the Award Goes To…

    Back to the basics, J.T Tepnapa goes back to honor his most awarded film, MASTURBATION: PUTTING THE FUN INTO SELF – LOVING. “AND THE AWARD GOES TO…” is set in a documentary style of filmmaking. J. T.’s film is nominated for best short film on Hollywood’s biggest night. But beyond all the ‘thank yous’ and ‘lies’ on stage, comes the true Hollywood story beneath the surface. Just how does one make a film?

  • Dark Sun; Bright Shade

    “Dark Sun; Bright Shade” is a one-hour dramatic film which explores the cultural, social and political fabrics between two gay Chinese men living under parallel traditions within the Chinese social structure. Through the unfolding of events following the 1989 T’ien An Men Square Massacre in Beijing, the film focuses on Paul, a young Chinese-Canadian artist, and Kai, a foreign student in exile from mainland China, as they confront the differences in their politics, sexuality, cultural upbringing and family relationships. As they are drawn closer together it becomes obvious that, for the many displaced Chinese around the world, there lies ahead…

  • Shit Storm

    Based on a notorious ‘art scandal’ from 2007, writer/artist RM Vaughan recounts how rich and powerful members of the art world turned on him when he wrote his true thoughts about the mundane work proffered by the so-called Vancouver School. Art doesn’t have to be pretty, but does the art world have to be so ugly?

  • Gendercator, The

    “The Gendercator” is a satirical take on surgical body modification and gender. The story uses the “Rip van Winkle” model to extrapolate from the feminist 1970s to a frightening 2048, where politics and technology have conspired to mandate two gender “choices”: macho male or Barbie babe. In this dystopian future, those whose gender presentation does not comply will be GENDERCATED.