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Zooey & Adam

// May 4th, 2010 // No Comments » // Our Films

Adam and Zooey have been unsuccessfully trying to get pregnant for 7 months, then end up pregnant after a rape. Unsure of the parentage of their child, they decide to have him anyway.

Pendant plus de 7 mois sans succès, Adam et Zooey ont essayé de rendre Zooey enceinte, mais ce n’est qu’après un viol que la grossesse a lieu. Bien qu’ils soient incertains de l’origine parentale de leur enfant, ils décident de lui donner vie quand même.

ZOOEY & ADAM is a one-man film. One step beyond microcinema, this is an example of something the filmmaker calls “Solo Cinema.”  The crew is one person, the actors have no idea what the script is, and are surprised on-camera with events, to which they react with absolute authenticity. Solo Cinema explores the grey area between fiction and documentary, by crafting a series of chronological situations, putting actors in those situations, and documenting what they do.

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Lucid

// May 4th, 2010 // No Comments » // Our Films

Joel Rothman (Jonas Chernick of “The Border” and “7x Lucky”), a thirty-two-year-old psychotherapist, is having trouble sleeping. His wife has left him after an adulterous incident at the cottage. He fills the hours of insomnia obsessively listening to her final angry voicemail message and drawing sheep on the wall. He finds it tough to work and, worse, can no longer communicate with his distressed daughter – not to mention the notable decline of his driving skills.

Joel’s newest patients are suffering from various symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder and, under his compromised care, are getting increasingly worse. Victor (Callum Keith Rennie of “Memento”, “The Butterfly Effect” and “Falling Angels”), an unpredictably volcanic well of anger and frustration, believes that he is the subject of a secret government experiment. Chandra (Michelle Nolden of “Show Me”, “Men with Brooms” and “Ghost Whisperer”), soft-spoken and suffering from low self-esteem, is convinced that the city is mysteriously shrinking around her. Sophie (Lindy Booth of “Cry Wolf”, “Dawn of the Dead” and “Rub and Tug”), a beautiful young woman with a consuming addiction to prescription medication, believes that she is immortal.

Hitting rock bottom, Joel’s life has completely unravelled and he is in serious danger of losing his job. He even begins to hear profanities erupting from a children’s cartoon show. Although Joel persists in trying to understand what is happening to him and his charges, he has become as unstable as they are and the line between doctor and patient is starting to blur.

The black humour of Lucid’s script, a collaboration between Garrity and Chernick, plays to the actor’s gift for clever repartee and to his natural vulnerability. Strong performances from the entire cast lend a precise realism to Garrity’s strange, illusory world, in which Joel must confront, decipher and conquer the puzzle-like realm of his psyche.

Sean Garrity’s Inertia won the award for Best First Feature at the 2001 Toronto International Film Festival. His inventive visual style and strong sense of character announced a significant new talent on the Canadian scene. Lucid, which is full of Garrity’s keen sense of atmosphere and complex personal interactions, sees him venture into darker, more unpredictable dramatic territory.

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Inertia

// May 4th, 2010 // No Comments » // Our Films

Restlessness, doubt, desire, and regret are the main characters in writer-director  Sean Garrity’s “Inertia”. This confident debut feature examines the complicated romantic inter-relations of four urban 20-somethings as they stumble into awkward infidelity and unrequited love in search of something more.

Taking a cue from the work of English director Mike Leigh, and Vancouver director Bruce Sweeney, INERTIA started as an improvisation project, with the director and actors working together to improvise scenes and characters. This process lasted six months and generated almost 30 hours of video footage, which was studied to create the first draft of the script. The result is natural dialogue, real characters, and performances that make you believe you’re watching scenes from your own life.

In INERTIA, the vision of award-winning director Sean Garrity is stunningly rendered by combining the talents of critically acclaimed composer Richard Moody, cinematographer Michael Marshall (Twilight of the Ice Nymphs, Careful) and Genie-award winning production designer Kim Forrest. Shot on 35mm, with a miniscule budget, INERTIA looks and sounds better than most films made with ten times the money.

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My Awkward Sexual Adventure

// May 3rd, 2010 // No Comments » // Our Films

Blood Pressure

// May 2nd, 2010 // No Comments » // Our Films

After The Ball

// May 1st, 2010 // No Comments » // Our Films

Kate’s dream is to design for couturier houses, but she can’t get a job. No one trusts the daughter of Lee Kassell, a retail guru who markets clothes “inspired” by the very designers Kate wants to work for. Who wants a spy among the sequins and stilettos? Reluctantly, Kate joins the family business where she must navigate around her duplicitous stepmother and two wicked stepsisters. But with the help of a prince of a guy in the shoe department, her godmother’s vintage clothes, and a shocking switch of identities, Kate fights to embrace her destiny.

This film is being released theatrically in the spring of 2015.

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Borealis

// April 30th, 2010 // No Comments » // Our Films

JONAH, a poker-playing single father, takes his estranged teenaged daughter AURORA on a dangerous road trip to Churchill, Manitoba to show her the magnificent Northern Lights – before her vision disorder renders her completely blind.  For FULL WEBSITE click here.