The waiting is almost over. Jeff Payne has released a teaser trailer for the third chapter of The Pale Faced Lady series, titled, “In Darkness I Wait”. It is set to be released September 2020. “Chapter 3 of The Pale Faced Lady (In Darkness I Wait), my goal is for…
Browsing: Short Film
MELOPEE (a.k.a. Plainsong) **** Canada 2019 Dir: Alexis Fortier-Gauthier. 18 mins Three young people celebrate “Quebec Day” with a beach house vacation that highlights existing tensions and unfulfilled desires: Olivier (Antoine DesRochers) clearly fancies his mate’s girlfriend Diane (Rosalie Fortier) and, after an unpleasant encounter with patronising locals (verdict on…
MOMENT **** Canada 2019 Dir: Geoffrey Uloth. 22 mins Screenwriter-director Geoffrey Uloth, who made the series CHASING MONSTERS after a sequence of short films, presents a unique and heartfelt twist on the superhero genre with this unexpectedly moving Montrael-shot piece. After finding a mysterious teddy bear on her bed at…
FOYER (a.k.a. Hearth) **** Canada 2019 Dir: Sophie B Jacques. 11 mins Writer-director Sophie B Jacques’ latest short film offers a droll, cleverly constructed inversion of home invasion tropes with which we are all too familiar. It unfolds in a luxurious neighbourhood and revolves around Emilie (Marilyn Castonguay), who returns…
ALASKA **** Canada 2019 Dir: Gwynne Phillips, Briana Templeton, Chris Wilson. 13 mins Written and directed by three of its stars, this darkly funny class satire has man of modest means (and “in between jobs”) Tom (Chris Wilson) running late with wife Paige (Gwynne Phillips) for the dinner party hosted…