Vancouver’s beloved film co-op Cineworks will be hosting a screening and discussion of my short film Heavy Petting in celebration of its online premiere.
My short film Heavy Petting will be screening at the Chilliwack Independent Film Festival, where it has been nominated for three awards— Best Director, Best Script, and Best Short.
Heavy Petting has its Alberta premiere at the Fairy Tales Queer Film Festival in Calgary on Friday June 10 at 8:30pm at the Globe Cinema. It is part of the “Artsy Camp S^%* Night” curated by Misty-Dawn MacMillan.
Thrilled to announce that Heavy Petting will have its European Premiere at the BIFA qualifying Manchester Film Festival in March.
We are part of Short Session 7 on Friday March 18th at 8pm at Odeon Great Northern.
Heavy Petting will screen again in Tennessee, this time at the Indie Memphis Film Festival in their After Dark Shorts program.
My eerie queer character drama Heavy Petting will have its Canadian Premiere at the Vancouver International Film Festival.
There will be two theatrical screenings:
Saturday October 9 @6:30pm at the Annex
Sunday October 10 @4pm at the Annex
The film will also be available digitally across Canada via VIFF Connect from October 1-11.
Ticket information and more is available at VIFF.org
My eerie queer character drama Heavy Petting will have its Canadian Premiere at the Vancouver International Film Festival.
There will be two theatrical screenings:
Saturday October 9 @6:30pm at the Annex
Sunday October 10 @4pm at the Annex
The film will also be available digitally across Canada via VIFF Connect from October 1-11.
Ticket information and more is available at VIFF.org
My Ontario Arts Council funded short film Heavy Petting has its World Premiere at the Academy Award qualifying Nashville Film Festival.
The film is playing in the festival’s Graveyard Shifts shorts program, and will be available digitally September 30 - October 6.
You can buy tickets here. Visit the festival’s website for more information.
Loretta’s Flowers will be playing on BronxNet’s arts and entertainment channel (BX Arts— channel 68 Optimum + 2134 FiOS in the Bronx) and worldwide at BronxNet.tv as part of the channel’s Pride Month programming.
Tune into our Pride program block on Saturday, June 5th at 9:30pm or Saturday, June 19th at 9:30pm.
My work is returning to the Reelout Queer Film Festival in Kingston for the second year in a row! Main Squeeze will be playing in the Girls on Girls Shorts Program.
As the festival is virtual this year, the film will be available to stream for several days. Tickets for the program are $13 and can be purchased here.
My musical drama Getting There will be making a return to the big screen in my hometown thanks to the great people at the Calgary Folk Music Festival. The short film will play before a performance by Jess Knights.
Doors: 7 PM
Show: 8 PM
Tickets are $20 and on sale now! Click here
Jess Knights’ debut 2018 EP, Won’t Wait, captured the grit of the rooms – and the colourful denizens – that helped her find her voice. Revivalist soul and classic roots tones ripened the sound on her 2020 debut full-length album, Best Kind of Light. With assistance from award-winning producer Joshua Van Tassel and the crème de la crème of Canadian songsmiths and sidemen, including Donovan Woods and Joey Landreth, Best Kind of Light showcases Knights’ luminous voice and burgeoning song balladeer skills.
Getting There, a short film by Brendan Prost
Tanner, a passionate and single-minded mandolin player in a multi-instrumental folk band, struggles to drag his bandmates towards productivity and relevance at the risk of his own personal estrangement. But, after a disconcerting conversation with a famed singer-songwriter, Tanner takes a moment to pause and appreciate what he has already. Getting There is a vibrant, musical consideration of an artist's struggle to collaborate and keep things in perspective.
Main Squeeze is an official selection at the Silver Wave Film Festival in New Brunswick!
We play in a program of other great shorts, including my pal Daniel Jeffery’s A New Leash On Life. Tickets are available for anyone in the Atlantic region so you can watch online by clicking here.
Main Squeeze plays in the virtual edition of the Seattle Queer Film Festival in the Girl Shorts program.
Tickets and passes are available now! Get them here.
My collaborative project with Lindsay Mullan, Loose Ends, will be part of the San Francisco Independent Short Film Festival’s online edition in a program called “Transitions”.
Tickets are onsale now and are available here.
The Vancouver Queer Film Festival has gone online this year, and I’m honoured to have my holiday comedy Main Squeeze part of the program.
It’s playing in the transgressively titled shorts program “Don’t Keep Your Distance”.
Tickets are available to everyone in BC by visiting https://queerfilmfestival.ca/film/dont-keep-your-distance-shorts-program.
After a two year film festival journey, my queer character drama Loretta’s Flowers will have its online premiere via popular YouTube channel The Queer Network on Thursday June 4, when it will also be Film Shortage’s Daily Short Pick.
At 8pm EST, I will be joined by the whole cast for a livestream commentary and Q&A of the film on Facebook. In real time, we will be sharing our memories of the creative process, highlighting the work of our collaborators, and sharing insights into the film's soul. Afterward, we will have a casual conversation about the film for about 15-20 minutes. You are invited to participate throughout by posting comments and asking questions in the chat. I will do my best to facilitate and respond to everything.
My queer holiday comedy Main Squeeze was selected for the Ashland Independent Film Festival. Although the Covid-19 pandemic has disrupted the initial plans for the event, I am delighted that AIFF has moved their program online.
From May 22- to June 14, folks in the United States can purchase a digital subscription to the festival, which gives you 24hr access to all the short programs. Purchase information is available online here.
Main Squeeze is in Short Stories 01: Couples. And, we recorded a virtual Q&A on Zoom for you to enjoy after your viewing. Enjoy!
Emotional Distancing is a short film program that reflects on feelings of loneliness, despair, and isolation-- before it was "trending".
Click here to join the livestream on Facebook.
Tune in for seven short films, with introductions and Q&As by the filmmakers. Ask questions, comment during the movie, and engage with us! We are hungry for connection, just like you, just like the characters in these films. All start times are approximate, and listed in Eastern Standard.
8pm - IN THE SHADOW OF THE MOUNTAIN (2017) - Two melancholy city dwellers seek to brighten their lives by escaping to a sublime mountain trail, but discover only darkness when they become lost and are subsumed by the long shadows of the landscape.
w/special guests: actors Julie Leung and Shane McLean
8:30pm - BELLINGHAM (2019) - At a moment of mutual desperation, two restless souls in different Northwest cities match online and meet up at a point of compromise. When they come face-to-face in the small town of Bellingham, they fail to connect, and are left to wander the coastline together— basking in the solace of their shared despair.
w/special guests: Arianna McGregor (actor), Andrew Lau (dop), Drew Redman (composer)
9pm - MYSTERY SURPRISE!
w/special guests
9:30pm - QUARANTINE VALENTINE (2020) - Featuring a remote cast of almost 40 people, this movie about being nice to yourself even when the order is tall.
w/Sydney Nicole Herauf
9:45pm - A WOMAN'S BLOCK (2018) - A woman recovering from a manic episode helps a neighbour out.
w/Rebecca Love
10:15pm - IT’S HIM (2017) - An unexpected encounter during an afternoon at the cinema catapults a young woman into a confrontation with her own grief, her parents' pain, and the still raw wound of her missing older brother. Over a single afternoon and evening, Shelby must sift the ground of memory, heartbreak, and hope, ever in search of a way forward.
w/Sophy Romvari
10:45pm - LET US END WITH IT TOO (2016) - A thoughtful exploration of a dying relationship told in four vignettes. When Sarah realizes that she may be falling out of love with her partner, she subsequently withdraws into herself in order to face her emotions and interpret them before acting on a potentially detonative thought.
w/Caisha Lea Thompson
My queer xmas comedy Main Squeeze plays at the Bloomington Pride Film Festival in Indiana with two other shorts.
Details at - https://bloomingtonpride.org/film
Tickets at - https://bctboxoffice.org/event/pride-film-festival
Loretta’s Flowers will be screening at Reelout— Kingston’s queer film festival— in a program of shorts called “Queer Intimacies” on February 6 at 8:15pm.
I am stoked to be sharing the screen with one of my filmmaking role models, Sarah Rotella, as well as a bunch of other cool folks.
If you’re in the Kingston area, come check things out! Details of the program at: https://www.reelout.com/event/queer-intimacies-shorts-program.
Ticket info at: https://www.reelout.com/festival-info/tickets-venues.
Main Squeeze plays for a second time at the Vancouver International Film Festival. We are part of a fantastic shorts program called To Live in Infamy.
I will be in attendance at this screening for Q&A, and so will actors Keshia Palm and Shane McLean.
My queer xmas comedy Main Squeeze has its World Premiere at the Vancouver International Film Festival. We are part of a fantastic shorts program called To Live in Infamy.
I will be in attendance at this screening for Q&A.
My lyrical Pacific Northwest drama, Bellingham, will have its Washington premiere at the Local Sightings Film Festival as part of the shorts program “Duets”. This is a very special event, as we were actually shooting Bellingham while we were in Seattle for last year’s festival. I am so grateful to be able to return to show them what their invitation made possible!
My lyrical short Pacific Northwest drama Bellingham has its World Premiere at the 37th Flickers’ Rhode Island International Film Festival, as part of Shorts Program 1.
I will be in attendance to introduce the movie and engage with the audience afterward.
Loretta’s Flowers plays in the Local Heroes shorts program at Inside Out— Canada’s largest LGBT film festival— on Thursday May 30 at the TIFF Bell Lightbox at 6:45pm.
Additional details about the screening coming soon. Ticket packages for the festival are on sale now, get them here.
Loretta’s Flowers plays in a program of Canadian shorts during the Future of Film Showcase at the Scotiabank Theatre in Toronto.
Details about the event are available on the FOFS website, and tickets are on sale now.
Loretta’s Flowers screens at the Twister Alley Film Festival as part of a shorts program called “Love… and Other Bizarre Concepts” on Saturday May 4 at the Woodward Arts Theatre in Oklahoma.
The Toronto Film Review is screening a group of Toronto short films on Thursday April 11 at Supermarket in Kensington Market. The theme of this program is dusk— the ephemeral moment between when the sun sets and when the darkness of night takes hold.
My newly completed music video Hopelessness for German Error Message will be screening for the first time. Come check it out!
DC Shorts is celebrating Valentine’s Day with a collection of four relationship-themed showcases, from hilarious to heart-crushing and every emotion in between.
Loretta’s Flowers will play in aptly-titled block of shorts called “Love Hurts” on Friday February 15 at 9pm at the Miracle Theatre in Washington, DC.
Tickets for the program are $15 and can be purchased online by clicking here.
Loretta’s Flowers will have its French premiere at the inaugural Festival Libres Émois du Film Court et du Documentaire in Paris.
Ours is one of the a small minority of English language films in this amazing selection of international shorts. The programmers discovered Loretta’s Flowers via our presence in Telefilm Canada’s Not Short on Talent program at Cannes in the springtime.
