Abbey Jean Cowan, Luxton Handspiker, Antonina Battrick, Paul Gordon
Canada
2021
English
Featured in:
VIFF Short Forum: Program 5
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The Plague
At a water polo camp, Ben is plunged into the deep end of toxic peer pressure. Terrified of incurring his campmates’ wrath, he joins them in tormenting a kid whose skin rash has been branded “the plague”. But then he experiences a breakout of his own...
Saturn Return
This fascinating, highly acclaimed movie is a thinly disguised history of 90s indie rockers Los Planetas, a Granada grunge outfit who cited the Velvet Underground as inspiration. It's one of the best rock movies in years.
The Mother and the Bear
Johnny Ma’s film stars Kim Ho-jung as a Korean woman who flies to Winnipeg when her immigrant daughter is hospitalized there. This crowd-pleaser plays up cultural differences to hilarious effect and offers a touching take on mother-daughter tension.
The Secret Agent
Having run afoul of an influential bureaucrat in Brazil’s military dictatorship circa 1977, Marcelo decamps to Recife to live under an assumed name — but he’ll soon come to understand precisely how rampant the country’s corruption has become.
Credits
Executive Producer
Nicholas Bradford-Ewart, Jessie Posthumus, Sarah Quan
Producer
Sarah Quan
Screenwriter
Jessie Posthumus
Cinematography
Benjamin Wong
Editor
Andrea Ziedenberg
Production Design
Mel Wright
Original Music
Kyle McCrea
Director
Jessie Posthumus
Jessie Posthumus is a Canadian writer, director, and editor working in both documentary and narrative film. Her short films have premiered in festivals such as Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, Inside Out, and Frameline, and have collected a number of Audience Choice and Best in Show awards. In her work, you will find a deep understanding of world-building, as well as a keen sense of humour. Her latest directing work includes a series of short documentaries about Canadians who are bad at their hobbies, as well as the short narrative film Rocket Fuel.


