SCA @ VIFF
There's always great SCA representation at , which runs September 26 鈥� October 11, 2019, in theatres around Vancouver, and this year is no exception. With the generous help and initiative of busy SCA film alumni , we've produced a quick guide to the "SCA @ VIFF" to help viewers better set their festival itineraries. Not only is Friesen's film showing at VIFF (detailed below), she's also hands-on with a number of other projects showing at the festival, too. Whew 鈥� thanks again for all the hard work, Suzanne!
The Body Remembers When The World Broke Open
Co-written / -directed / -produced with , 's dramatic feature , a "revelatory odyssey" in which an Indigenous woman helps a pregnant Indigenous teenager find a safe house, includes many other SCA alumni. , Hepburn's partner in , was one of the producers, was an associate producer, production design was by and , was first assistant camera, was second assistant camera, was third assistant camera and film loader, was the 'director mentee,' and was part of the cast.
screens Saturday, September 28, at 6:00 PM (Vancouver Playhouse) and Monday, September 30, at 11:15 AM (International Village 10) as part of the series. Buy tickets .
Venusian
Co-writers / -directors and 's , a short in which "a woman reconnects with herself," features music by composer and had as sound mixer, and and as production assistants.
screens as part of the series, which runs Sunday, September 29, at 8:45 PM (International Village 10) and Sunday, October 6, at 8:15 PM (International Village 8). Buy tickets .
Labour/Leisure
Longtime collaborators and co-directors and 's short , which explores the "largely invisible agricultural labour force, comprised of temporary migrant workers from the Global South," that sustains the fruit trade in BC's Okanagan, has as its cinematographer.
screens Wednesday, October 2, at 9:15 PM (International Village 10) and Wednesday, October 9, at 8:30 PM (International Village 8) as part of the series. Buy tickets .
Water Over Glass
(along with Zoe Kirk-Gushowaty, Amanda Thomson, and Jimi Pantalon) was one of four directors of , a collaborative, "exquisite corpse" style film that visualizes the "sonic narrative" of music by Vancouver musician 's project.
screens Friday, September 27, at 9:00 PM (The Cinematheque) and Saturday, September 28, at 1:30 PM (International Village 8) as part of the series. Buy tickets .
Preface to History
Following a man who "becomes engrossed in an audiobook while walking home on a summer night," , a short film by and (who together are the film and video production house ), included in the cast and on assistant camera.
screens Friday, September 27, at 9:00 PM (The Cinematheque) and Saturday, September 28, at 1:30 PM (International Village 8) as part of the series. Buy tickets .
Main Squeeze
Written, directed, and produced by , the short tells the story of "a couple in an open relationship" whose holiday is unexpectedly disrupted by a drunk "secondary partner ... on an ill-conceived mission to establish romantic dominance."
screens Monday, September 30, at 9:30 PM (International Village 10) and Monday, October 7, at 9:15 PM (International Village 8) as part of the series. Buy tickets .
Deady Freddy
Produced by and with cinematography by , Alicia Eisen's short is about how the eponymous character "must relive his life backwards through the eyes of every bug he has ever killed."
screens Thursday, October 3, at 9:30 PM (International Village 10) and Thursday, October 10, at 8:30 PM (International Village 8) as part of series. Buy tickets .
Raf
also co-produced (with Charlotte Wells) Harry Cepka's comedic feature , in which the day-dreamy, guileless titular character is taken under the "privileged wing" of a "well-heeled" but perhaps insincere benefactor.
screens Thursday, October 3, at 6:30 PM (The Cinematheque) and Sunday, October 6, at 1:00 PM (Vancity Theatre) as part of the series. Buy tickets .
Hand Job
and did the production design for Kara Hornland's short , which tells the story of a hand model who "confronts the absurdity of her life after a devastating accident."
screens Wednesday, October 2, at 9:15 PM (International Village 10) and Wednesday, October 9, at 8:30 PM (International Village 8) as part of the series. Buy tickets .
Easy Land
is the screenwriter and director of , which is her first feature. It tells the story of a Serbian mother, who was "a trained architect at home," and her teenage daughter who "find that their new lives in Canada resemble purgatorial states."
screens Tuesday, October 1, at 8:45 PM (International Village 8) and Thursday, October 3, at 3:15 PM (International Village 8) as part of the stream. Buy tickets .