“Our main character actually likes the social isolation and I think a lot of people are kind of in that boat,” added Vancouver’s Shandel, who is also a successful actor. “With everything that we’ve gone through in the last year and a half it’s good to be able to take the situation and get to a point where it’s OK we can actually laugh about it,” said Shandel. From there the FaceTime rouse becomes a full-time job. So in a bid to avoid getting tucked into his childhood bed at night Nate puts up a roadblock in the shape of an imaginary live-in girlfriend. They think the pandemic equals moving back in with mom and dad. This however is not how his overbearing parents (Nancy Roberston and Brent Butt) want things to play out. Instead of diving deep into one’s inner life the main character in Quarantine Fling is diving deep into deception.įrom director Milo Shandel and writer Nathaniel Moher, the 15-minute slice of life has Kelsey Flower as Nate a 20-something guy who is more than happy to be locked down and locked in alone with his video games and food delivery apps. Photo: Maria Belen Garcia Photo by Courtesy of Vancouver Short Film / PNGĪ different kind of relationship is at the centre of another B.C. Director Heather Perluzzo’s new short film Wildflower starring Maia Jae Bastidas and twin sister Keana Lyn, is one of 51 films at the Vancouver Short Film Festival. They already had a natural chemistry being sisters and it was actually quite easy, once you get to know them, to work with their experiences together. “It was a unique experience and it was so lovely to work with them. The film stars twin sisters Maia Jae and Keana Lyn Bastidas as the human and her AI counterpart, respectively. Photo: Maria Belen Garcia Photo by Maria Belen Garcia / PNG The 17 minute film is part of the 2022 Vancouver Short film Festival. A woman creating a replica of herself that she ends up falling in love with and ultimately loosing them to somebody else.”Īrticle content Filmmaker Heather Perluzzo is seen here on set of her short film Wildflower. “So this is kind of a metaphorical play on that experience. “I really like to tell female driven narratives through a science fiction lens so this story is kind of about my own personal experience with relationships and how I usually end up sacrificing something that I love about myself for somebody else,” said Perluzzo. In Vancouver-based writer/director Heather Perluzzo’s 17 minute, sci fi/romance film Wildflower, the reflecting is mirror-like as it focuses on a young woman who finds solace from an abusive relationship by developing a deep connection with an AI version of herself. Lots of reflecting,” said Duncan, who is also a writer/director. “There’s a lot about quarantine, the horror of the pandemic or metaphors for the pandemic but I think the theme that I have noticed even more than that was there is just lots of ruminating on self and relationships. Some filmmakers delivered those broad stroke pandemic tales, but others dug a little deeper. While Duncan says there was plenty of subject matter diversity among the 300 films submitted, our tumultuous pandemic world still coloured plenty of festival content. Art is still there and people still have things to say that are not just about the pandemic.” Sasha Duncan is the Vancouver Short Film Festival programming director. “There’s just something really nice to know that creativity is out there. Westcoast Homes & Design Previous Issues.Vancouver Sun Run: Sign up & event info.The ensemble cast also includes the likes of Andre Anthony ( The Night Agent), Christian Rose, Shiloh O’Reilly, Gage Marsh ( You Me Her), Keana Lyn Bastidas ( The Hardy Boys) and Maia Jae Bastidas ( Rabbit Hole). Hence, an in-universe film such as this can exist without dealing with a lot of legal red tape. What’s interesting about Night of the Living Dead is that the film is actually in the public domain, so nobody can really get in the way of filmmakers playing with that material. Looking for fun, Ash (Moore) and her friends attend the Festival of the Living Dead, but it is disrupted when a blast of radioactive space dust hits the festival and they must defend themselves or be devoured by the living dead.” As for how the Soska Sisters’ latest will fit into the Living Dead universe, so to speak? The synopsis for the film reads as follows: “It has been over 50 years since Night of the Living Dead’s original zombie attack and the horrific event has become the subject of morbid nostalgia. Helen Marsh and Miriam Lyapin penned the screenplay. According to Deadline, Ashley Moore ( I Know What You Did Last Summer) and Camren Bicondova ( Gotham) have been tapped to headline the cast as college student Ash and her best friend, Iris, respectively.
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