by Johanna Schwartz | Oct 29, 2019 |
3 Siblings dir. Sheena RossiterAlberta Ludmylla, Victor and Ângelo are three siblings with different gender and sexual identities. Born and raised in one of São Paulo’s favelas, they bring us into their world during the city’s LGBT Pride Month. Every year,...
by Johanna Schwartz | Sep 27, 2019 |
Auring’s Words dir. Tram-Anh NgoQuebec Auring, a retired art teacher, helps her granddaughter Alice learn the meaning of words in two languages: English and Tagalog. Their happy lessons are complicated when Auring begins to display memory loss. While Alice steadily...
by Johanna Schwartz | Sep 27, 2019 |
Alternating Current dir. Rowan GrayManitoba A woman aging out of a thankless job faces a life of poverty after being suddenly stripped of her hard-earned pension. Rowan Gray is a filmmaker and visual artist from Winnipeg, Manitoba. She graduated with a Bachelors of...
by Johanna Schwartz | Sep 27, 2019 |
Lonely People Exercising to Sad Music dir. Kaytlyn TurnerAlberta Lonely People Exercising to Sad Music is pretty much exactly what it sounds like. This short comedy took director Kaytlyn Turner several years to piece together and was inspired by a failed attempt at...
by Johanna Schwartz | Sep 27, 2019 |
Synced dir. Erin ShanksAlberta Two gal pals finish their periods and go out on dates to Olivia Newton-John this shit and get physical, but during their dates, their periods make a harrowing return. Erin Shanks is a 21 year old Metis woman from a small town in northern...