A dying man seeks the ultimate release.
Content Considerations: Sexual & graphic violence
Grace Glowicki, Julian Richings, Nicolette Pearse, Harrison Browne, Ted Charette
Canada/USA
2025
English
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Credits & Director
Producer
Lucy Belgum, Emily Lawson
Screenwriter
Emily Lawson
Cinematography
Gabriela Osio Vanden
Editor
Daniel Haack
Production Design
Ashley Frederick
Original Music
Spencer Creaghan
Emily Lawson
Emily Lawson is a Toronto-based, neurodiverse filmmaker whose work explores embodied storytelling. Her practice spans directing, writing, and performance to examine how emotion manifests through the body. She is currently in pre-production of Polycepolis, a movement-based exploration of neurodivergence and coupledom, as well as in pre-production of her debut feature Unicorn, an autobiographical metaphysical comedy about surviving childhood cancer.
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