Edward Escobal, Jason Asuncion, Sheree Ann Morgan, Chrysthelle Olivares, Jane White, Khia Arkysha Donguines
Canada
2022
In English and Tagalog with English subtitles
Coarse language
Featured in:
VIFF Short Forum: Program 3
The camera eye knows no bounds in these stories that push the limits of gravity and grace.
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Whispers in the Woods
A luxuriant, healing immersion in nature with ravishing wildlife photography, this is the cinematic equivalent of "forest bathing," a trip deep into the Vosges, France, with photographer Vincent Munier (The Velvet Queen), his father and his son.
Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould
A bona fide classic and arguably the greatest Canadian film of the 90s, Girard's dazzling deconstruction of the biopic gives us the mercurial pianist Glenn Gould as Picasso might have rendered him, a cubist portrait combining multimedia vignettes.
King Arthur's Night
John Bolton's film of Niall McNeil and Marcus Youssef's musical staging recreates Camelot at Harrison Hot Springs. It's a self-referential piece which joyfully reframes a classical narrative through the prisms of disability, inclusivity, and imagination.
Dazed and Confused
The last day of high school in May, 1976: seniors debate party politics while next term's freshmen run the gauntlet of brutal initiation rites, barely comforted by the knowledge that they'll wield the stick one day.
Democracy Under Siege
As the USA turns 250, Oscar-nominated director Laura Nix considers the roots of the current political crisis with commentary from historian Heather Cox Richardson, progressive politician Jamie Raskin, and cartoonist Ann Telnaes, among others.
Credits
Executive Producer
Sebastien Galina, Geoff Manton, Shelby Manton, Kristoff Duxbury
Producer
Geoff Manton, Sebastien Galina, Kent Donguines
Screenwriter
Moira Tan, Kent Donguines
Cinematography
Jaryl Lim
Editor
Josh Aries
Production Design
Amber Nordstrand, Rowan Landaiche
Original Music
Katya Semyonova
Director
Kent Donguines
Kent Donguines is a Filipino-Canadian narrative and documentary filmmaker who runs Aimer Films Inc. based in Vancouver, BC. He produced the award-winning films Iridescence (2017), This Ink Runs Deep (2019), and Watershed (2020), which was featured at Los Angeles Comic Con. He also created the short documentary Kalinga (2020), which had its world premiere at the DOXA Documentary Film Festival. Donguines is an alumnus of the 2021 Norman Jewison Film Program – CFC Producers’ Lab.



