Performed by Val Cole

POEM:

Look at the big, beautiful Moon tonight.
See the little red spot that is called Mars.
See the almighty Elon Musk take flight.
Launched from the earth through its cosmos and stars.

But lo, it’s only his robot doppelganger
on a mission to plant the American flag.
Oh ...

A carefree young American woman gains a new appreciation for life when she is caught up in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.

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CAST LIST:

Narrator: Geoff Mays
Kalyna: Hannah Ehman
Rachel: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Stepan: Shawn Devlin

Get to...

Haunted by a fatal mistake, a shattered vice cop reunites with a bright but brooding detective and his mysterious family to tame her frightening new power and protect it from the evil eager to control it.

CAST LIST:

Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Rachel: Val Cole
Brandon: Steve Rizzo

In an alternate 1831 Virginia, enslaved preacher Nat Turner, along with hundreds of enslaved Black people in the antebellum South, live with a horrifying truth: white townspeople and plantation owners led by the charismatic Pastor Sarx are ancient demonic beings who literally feed on Black flesh....

When Harry Dreyfus, the popular owner of a café in Boston, becomes involved with a Harvard student, he can’t imagine that a year later the President of Harvard will summon him to an interrogation threatening his business, his friends faced with expulsion, after his lover is found dead.
Inspired b...

In a world where a Death Cloud has the power to destroy every last
human and man-made object, the toughest soldier on the planet, a woman, is unhinged by the memory of her father killing her mother when she was a kid.

CAST LIST:

Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Voice/Black: Steve Rizzo
Faith: ...

LOGLINE: Our reluctant Water Clock hero is bent on finding a scientist to teach the world about an ancient family relic, until the stone bowl’s mysterious force reveals a climate crisis no one sees coming: What if water is alive?

CAST LIST:

Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Orinday: Steve Rizzo...

Ashley Kelly is your typical American young woman—or she would be if it weren’t for the cluster bomb that crippled her. Ten years after the alien invasion, over a hundred million Americans have been displaced by the war, with millions more dead. Ash has spent ten years learning to walk again, and...

A criminal gang of Drag Queens gets more than they bargained for in the pursuit of stolen royal jewels.

CAST LIST:

Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Lips: Shawn Devlin
Ruthless Ruth: Hannah Ehman

A family dinner takes a sinister turn when the children are reminded of a generational ritual at the onset of the father’s terminal illness.

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CAST LIST:

Narrator: Geoff Mays
Dr. Bishop: Shawn Devlin
Grace: Hannah Ehman

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1. ...

A young girl watches an old dog. Taking the dog on a walk, a rough encounter with a bully has dire consequences.

CAST LIST:

Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Kyle: Steve Rizzo
Jason: Geoff Mays
Sydney: Val Cole
Ms Barker: Hannah Ehman

MAGGIE KAWAR, an art gallery owner in her fifties, struggles with the emotional scars left by her abusive mother, RUBY. She juggles being a grandmother to her six-year-old grandson, FREDDY, and her tumultuous relationship with her self-absorbed daughter, ELIZABETH, who works as her assistant. The...

A re-imagining of Frankenstein with an AI-enhanced tree

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CAST LIST:

Narrator: Geoff Mays
Phil: Shawn Devlin
Monica: Hannah Ehman

Get to know the writers:

1. What is your screenplay about?
It's a re-imagining of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein with an AI-enhanced tre...

Summary: Simon has the worst luck ever, he just can't seem to find a relationship to work and struggles to make it work no matter who he tries dating. After getting himself in some questionable situations, he finds himself in Vietnam, looking for his lost love but when it finds him, it's bitter s...

"Loulouthkia" is a powerful screenplay set during the 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus. Through the eyes of 11-year-old Annoula, we witness the sudden collapse of innocence, the heartbreak of displacement, and the quiet strength of a family in crisis. As memories of a once-peaceful childhood fade ...

Summary: Martin's mother passes away after a two year battle with cancer and his long lost best friend Abe finally shows up after seven years. They have to catch up and fill each other in on what they have missed out on -only to realise that they might have missed out on being more than best frie...

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Narrated by Val Cole

POEM:

Dear Young Joi,
Your body is not an apology…
Stop giving it away to anyone who tells you or tells you to feel sorry for or about yourself…

Your body is not a toy…
Stop allowing people to play with it as children do, without instruction ...

In a venture into an uncharted human civilization on Earth that evolved without sunlight, a checkered doctor must bridge - with a resilient local leader - science and ancient tradition to find a cure to a deadly disease, navigating together hostile landscapes, corporate grid, personal demons.

CA...

Jorge Escompani is a "Shiringa" master, "Shiringa" is a tree which produces natural latex. This is considered a tradition that preserves great passion and environmental awareness. The extraction of latex from the Shiringa three led to the death of thousands of indigenous people due to slavery dur...

Abstract Skies, 4min,. Canada
Directed by Roger Gallant
A short film that reimagines the skies as a gallery of abstract forms, captured in motion through time-lapse.

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Watch audience feedback video:
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Watch the amazing film festival that just played at the Carlton Cinemas in downtown Toronto on March 27th.

EE THE LINEUP OF FILMS:

THE MOMENT, 7min., Poetry, Canada
Directed by Craig Wrobleski
A poem about resilience and strength as a path to peace. The film follows one woman’s extraordinary j...

My dad passed away recently and I’ll be completely honest here, watching him die slowly from cancer is a hell I would not wish on my worst enemy.
Family and friends ask me how I am feeling, or how I am handling it all. In actuality, the emotions are too intense to verbalize.

The only way that I ...

Carbon stored in fire-damaged redwoods produces new sprouts directly from tree trunk. The film is about understanding better the details at the chemical level of how these trees are able to come back to rebuild a crown of vigorous green foliage after losing everything.

Directed by Erik Sather

P...