Vancouver’s annual Crazy8s short film competition has announced the six projects that get backing for this year’s eight-day filming sprint.
Winners get eight days to shoot, edit and post their short films, with help from sponsors that include Telefilm Canada, B.C. FIlm, CBC TV and the Directors Guild of Canada-B.C.
The winners are:
Writer-director Matt Leaf, who will film a short called Braindamage, a dark story about a near future where technology can extract the memories from victims of violent cfrime.
Director Nimisha Mukerji and writer Orsy Szabo, whose Happy Homecoming tells the story of a reunion between a father and a daughter five years after their wife and mother has died.
Writer-director Ryan Haneman and writer Christopher Lee for Manstruation, a comedy wherein a quirk of evolution has given men periods, and one man tries to devise the perfect male hygiene product.
Writer-producer Patrick Currie and director Sean Tyson for Stewing, a dark comedy about two exes who clash six months after their break-up over a dog-sitting request.
Writer-director Mackenzie Gray, for the noir homage Under the Bridge Of Fear, a story about a private eye, blackmail and saphhic intrigue.
Writer-director Jane Hancock, for When I Saw You, a riff on those weekly newspaper missed connections ads.
The six were narrowed down last week from among 12 finalists chosen last November for story-editing sessions with professional writers and editors. More than 100 applicants originally entered the contest earlier last year.
The jury who picked the finalists included past Crazy8s winners Dylan Akio Smith, Kaare Andrews and Zach Lipovsky, as well as director Julia Kwan and producer Sharon McGowan.
Crazy8s production happens Feb. 8-15.
