A spooky story about a girl with a dream or is it a dream? I created this short film with friend's daughter who wanted to be in one of my films. We came up with an idea and shot it in a day. Many years later (I won't say how many but it's a lot), I finished it.
Female Director
Sit.
A young woman explores her desires as she explores the home of a mother she is babysitting for; a tale of clandestine play.
Sit. is a film about who we are when no one is watching. The film was created with the generous support of the Canada Council for the Arts by an incredible team of female creatives including; Gabriela Osio Vanden (Nuisance Bear, TIFF 2021), Actresses Dorrett White, L.A. Sweeney, and Victory Barrow, composer Iva Delic and colourist Morgana Mckenzie.
Moon Belly
In a small place in the Highlands of Chiapas, a Tsotsil girl who will give birth for the first time, invokes the memories of the women who preceded her in order to face this moment. Amidst the fears and uncertainties of giving life, she discovers motherhood from the cosmovision of her world.
Rule of Stone
If Jerusalem stone could speak, it would tell this story: from Imperial Britain to the Israeli occupation, buildings in Jerusalem have been clad in it. This is a story of how beauty and abuse go hand in hand.
Baigal Nuur – Lake Baikal
The formation and history of Lake Baikal in Siberia are re-imagined with hand-made animation, featuring the voice of a Buryat woman who can still recall some words in her endangered Buryat-Mongolian language.
On The Mountain
On The Mountain is a poetic drama inspired by true events. Rabia Noori, an English teacher from Kabul, is forced to make an impossible choice to save her family when they resettle as refugees in the U.S.