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The Casebook of Nips and Porkington |
Little Goddess
MJ Campos (Director)
Aira, Mother Nature's daughter, steals the Earth from the
skies and it quickly becomes her favourite toy. After she goes to sleep, her
Shadow emerges and tries to eat Earth, which causes them to fight.
Granny Baby
Eva Colmers (Writer/Director/Producer)
Young Jack is excited to finally pick up his new baby sister
and Mom from the hospital. When he enters the busy waiting room, Jack bumps
into an old, confused Granny. Nobody seems to notice her. Nobody seems to care.
Jack wants to help her but how? A fictional story based on real events, Granny
Baby looks at a serious issue in a light-hearted, creative way through the
bright eyes of a child.
Darling
Marie-Helene Cournoyer (Director)
A cute wedding proposal goes big. The film was made at
Concordia University, Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, for the Film Animation
Undergraduate program.
Trapped Girl
Catherine Fordham (Writer/Actor/Producer)
When the bathroom doorknob falls of, a girl is trapped
inside. Beyond the door her life is falling apart and when she's set free hours
later she finds herself stumbling into a new reality. A tragicomedy based on a
real event, "Trapped Girl" explores the moments in our lives when the
ground shifts and everything is heightened, scary, and full of possibilities.
The Cat's Inn
Claire Fraser (Director/Producer)
The Cat's Inn is a family run cat boarding facility in
Halifax, Nova Scotia. In this short documentary, we experience the daily routine
of The Cat’s Inn, as we find ourselves exploring this unique facility from the
feline perspective.
The Forest
Caity Hall (Director)
A little boy meets a mysterious forest girl, and their
friendship unfolds as the seasons change.
Smoke
Kellen Jackson (Writer/Director); Suzanne Friesen
(Cinematogrpahy); Sasha Tomasky (Editor)
In hazy, sprawling farmlands, sisters Quin and Frances
approach an emotional divide as secrets surrounding the nature of their surreal
world begin to surface.
Momemo
Emily Langridge
(Writer/Producer)
A woman with Alzheimer's encounters a man who claims to be her
husband. What ensues is a beautiful moment of connection before the nurse
returns
Just A Prayer
Farah Merani (Writer/Producer)
"Just A Prayer" is about Anita, a Muslim woman who
seems to have everything, but who is deeply dissatisfied with her life and the
path she sees ahead of herself. She makes a major decision that she believes
will bring her happiness and opportunity, but that only brings her unexpected
regret. Anita finds solace through a Catholic group, and a few years later, we find
her living in a convent as a novitiate. The film is grounded in the present,
but flows between her life now as a novice, and the events of five years ago.
Iris
Simone Stock (Writer/Director/Producer)
Devoted teenage boyfriend Marshall worries his girlfriend Iris,
who has Asperger's Syndrome, might be losing her grip on reality when she tells
him she sees another world.
Tears of Inge
Alisi Telengut (Director/Animator)
A profound human-animal and human-nature relationship is
represented by a painted world filled with a camel's emotion and tears. It is
based on a real Mongolian nomadic story narrated by my grandmother.
The Casebook of Nips and Porkington
Melody Wang (Director)
The Casebook of Nips and Porkington is an animated short
about two members of the constabulary and their quest to return a kidnapped egg
to its distraught parents.
780 St. Remi
Karen Vanderborght (Director/Producer) A poetic goodbye to
the director's first official address in Canada, before it is erased from the
records to make way for a concrete cathedral for cars, the Turcot interchange.
Tickets are on sale and can be purchased online at
www.algonquinsa.tcketly.com or Algonquin’s ticket box office, located at 1385
Woodroffe Ave. Tickets are $50.00 (+ surcharges) and proceeds will go to the Ottawa
Regional Cancer Foundation
Lights! Camera! Cure! screens Oct. 22.
Please visit vixensvictorious.ca for more information.