Student Shorts | Panel | World’s Best Shorts | Pro Shorts | Awards | Judges | Photos
Tucker | Capilano University | 10 mins.
A teen-mother must care for a rapidly aging child who has an agenda of his own.
Paper Cut | Vancouver Film School | 4:25
The everyday life of an office can really crumple you up. This is what a bored employee is about to find out, when a normal day of work turns into a fight for his identity and ultimately his life. All because of one little, harmless papercut.
Max | 7:40
A traditionalist animator gets an unexpected visit by an auditor, which rapidly spirals out of control. Max mixes traditional animation techniques with digital rotoscoping and motion graphics for a nervewracking jaunt into the life of an animator.
Surviving in the Cracks | Langara College | 15 mins.
In March 2004, the BC government closed three Vancouver safe houses designed to protect vulnerable children from the sex trade. The kids that lived in these three houses were suddenly displaced to inferior arrangements and some returned to life on the street. From this injustice a movement was born that was unsuccessful in keeping the safe houses open but, over the past five years, has been a support group for kids in trouble. In late 2008 this group partnered with university researchers to produce a theatre project written from the real-life experiences of troubled youth. As the filmmaker follows these groups during the final weeks of rehearsal the project is hanging by a thread, threatening the continuity of the cause and the credibility of the groups involved.
Iran: A Nation of Bloggers | Vancouver Film School | 2:20
Iran: A Nation of Bloggers explores how the digital world allows many Iranians access to ideas and freedom of expression they haven’t had for close to thirty years.
Latte America | BC Institute of Technology | 10 mins.
If you ordered Latte America at the coffee bar, you would ask for “a single shot short, backwards.” Your barista would stop picking at his nose-rings long enough to film an action comedy entirely in reverse, in a single shot. That’s right – all the action, all the dialogue, all delivered backwards, in one take. It’s cinematic history, and it’s very hot. Don’t burn your lips.
Missing Alice | Vancouver Film School | 9:14
A delusional man revisits his childhood friend in Wonderland only to uncover the awful truth that changed his life forever.
Descendant | International Language School of Canada | 4:14
Death is as real as life…
Nature on its Course | Emily Carr University | 2:30
Nature on Its Course is a short mixed media animation about a careless hunter who takes more than he needs.
Perfect Wave | Simon Fraser University | 9 mins.
On a warm August evening, Rio and Lou come across a mysterious abandoned handbag. The contents of the bag: psychedelic drugs, an exotic postcard, an intense handwritten journal and a photo of the beautiful owner – paint the picture of their perfect summer love: Fabiola Sorensen. With their hearts and minds open to all experiences, they set off to find her.
The Escape of Conrad Lard Bottom | University of British Columbia | 8 mins.
The Escape of Conrad Lard-Bottom is an 8-minute dark comedy where, following the deaths of Conrad Lard-Bottom’s three brothers, his mother decides to imprison Conrad Lard-Bottom in order to protect him from the outside world. After seven years, Conrad goes insane, and decides to “dispose” of his overprotective mother, but he quickly learns that escape is more difficult than he imagined.
Not Another Damn Musical! | Art Institute of Vancouver | 8:45
Not Another Damn Musical follows Leopold Gunthry, a mild-mannered news reporter who can only express his most heartfelt feelings and emotions through grandiose musical numbers, as he struggles to find a place for himself in a cold and passionless world.
