Stephen Eric McIntyre, Trevor Merasty, Tyler Rogers, Darcy Fehr, Alec Goodall
Canada
2022
English
Graphic Violence, Drug & Alcohol Abuse
Featured in:
VIFF Short Forum: Program 4
Bouncing through nostalgic aesthetics and genre storytelling, a contemporary point of view comes into focus.
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The Art of Adventure
The unbelievable adventure story of how painter Robert Bateman and ecologist Bristol Foster drove a Land Rover from Africa to Australia in 1957, developing a love of nature to last a lifetime. An inspirational love letter to the adventure of life itself.
Agatha's Almanac
Shot over six years on vibrant 16mm film, Agatha’s Almanac is an artful documentary portrait of filmmaker Amalie Atkin’s octogenarian aunt, who has fashioned herself an endearingly simple and self-sustaining lifestyle on her Manitoba farm.
Follies
After two kids and 16 years of marriage, François and Julie decide to open up their relationship in a bid to rekindle their dwindling sex life. A painfully hilarious and brutally honest depiction of love, sex, and intimacy in the age of the internet.
Paying for It
Talk about a hall of mirrors! Sook-Yin Lee wittily adapts the graphic novel of the same name by her ex-boyfriend, Canadian cartoonist Chester Brown, about the end of their relationship and Brown's subsequent decision to start paying for sex.
Credits
Executive Producer
Juliette Hagopian
Producer
Brian Barnhart
Screenwriter
Brian Barnhart
Cinematography
Greg Nicod
Production Design
Madison Dueck
Original Music
Ben Brimacombe, Nick Walker
Director
Brian Barnhart
Originally from Manitoba, Brian Vincent Barnhart got his start in film by working as a production assistant in his early 20s. He went on to study film production at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema in Montreal. His last film, The Manitoba Connection (2020), was a 35-minute documentary about Winnipeg’s hardcore punk underground scene circa the mid-2000s.


