Genres: short

  • Vapor

    “Vapor” is an insubstantial film – diffused matter suspended in air – a cinematic dew point where time and space are distorted and compressed. Pinhole images coalesce into something recognizable and just as quickly fade into the mist of emulsion from which they came.

  • Fotdella

    Fotdella follows Ryan Baer, a Canadian street musician – influenced by San Francisco one-man-band legend Jesse Fuller – as he constructs instruments from salvaged junk and performs in markets, ragtag parades, beach towns and underground spaces. As it drifts from Lake Huron to Berlin, the film captures the solitudes and celebrations of nostalgic touring bands who recycle 20th century blues, jazz and folk cultures. Fotdella tinkers with intimate and surreal performances to present a world of hacksaws, tubas, washboards and song staged between a transnational present and an imagined past. Featuring rare archival footage of Jesse Fuller’s last public concert,…

  • Terminations

    “Terminations” is an exploration of womanhood and the struggle over a woman’s right to control her own body, and in turn her own destiny. The film’s separate yet connected story lines focus on a day in the lives of seven female characters, all at the emotional crossroads of terminating a pregnancy. As we steal a look into their lives, their stories are unmasked.Broken relationships, death, cultural clashes between parent and child, and faith are all themes which emerge within the film, as interveners between these women and their bodies. 

  • I Feel Good

    “I Feel Good” is a collage of found family hockey footage and a conversation between Osborne and their brother Mathew in the basement of their family home. The two discuss the loss of their mother and living with a variety of mental illnesses, body dysphoria from both gender-variant and cisgender-male perspectives, lack of self-love, and the tensions that arise in the process of trying to understand one another. This video represents a moment in Osborne’s transition and a glimpse of the dynamic between siblings of similar gender dispositions.

  • Daily Bread

    In a WWII internment camp in Indonesia, Jeanne and a group of Dutch women and children face a daily struggle against abuse, disease, and starvation. Meanwhile, the Camp Commandant’s beloved white fluffy cat is fed fresh juicy meat….

  • The Day Don Died

    Tucked away in the heart of downtown Vancouver, there’s a condo tower that’s home to long-time members of Canada’s performing arts professions: singers, actors, costume designers, dancers, filmmakers, playwrights, jazz musicians, and more. Now picture this: on Easter Saturday, the residents of Vancouver’s Performing Arts Lodge wake up to discover jazz singer and beloved tenant Don Stewart has unexpectedly died after a Good Friday performance at a neighbourhood bar. But as news travels between his creative and colourful neighbours, the story of Don’s pass takes on a life of its own. Every resident has their own version of what really…

  • Positions

    A simple and naturalistic approach to a day in the life of a two-spirit, male sex worker as he visits his clients. Positions is an unapologetic and realist exploration of sexual desire, the quest for financial stability, and the pursuit of agency over one’s own body. Audience Award for Best Short, Fairy Tales Film Festival, 2019.

  • Breathing Through a Straw

    When a hookup ends in homicide, Parker decides to confront the man who abused him as a child. Inspired by a true story, “Breathing Through a Straw” explores the consequences of secrets. It is Canadian theatre director Leigh Rivenbark’s debut film, starring Christian Lloyd (Emmy Award-winning The Handmaid’s Tale, Maps to the Stars, American Gods).

  • CORNUCOPIA

    The interior Plateau of British Columbia is a confluence of volcanism, plate tectonics, and glaciation punctuated by intermittent cycles of fire and droughts. The perennial constant in shaping the plateau is the influence of storms from the Pacific Ocean and the multiple mountain ranges (including the Rockies) that carry glacier silt and other minerals through the myriad of rivers and lakes. For 1000’s of years First Nations Peoples thrived in this region with civilizations and customs that remain a powerful guiding presence today. In 1858 gold rush fever gripped a region in North America that would later become part of…

  • Laundry Day

    JJ retells the story of a dream her late grandmother had when she was a young woman. That a simple chore of hanging laundry, that our dreams can have a deeper meaning than we originally thought.