Crazy8's 2012 Finalists
There were so many great projects pitched this year the jury couldn't pick just 12, so congratulations to the 13 finalists moving on to the next round! The finalists will now have the opportunity to workshop their script with a professional story editor.
“A Mother’s Love” - Camille Mitchell (Writer/Director)
When her boys fail to come home from school one afternoon, a mother is plunged into a confusing and disorienting search, as it becomes clear that the world she is living in is not as it used to be.
“A Red Girl’s Reasoning” - Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers (Writer/Director) & Rose Stiffarm (Producer)
After the justice system fails the victim of a brutal, racially-driven sexual assault, she becomes a motorcycle-riding, ass-kicking vigilante who takes on the attackers of other women who've suffered the same fate.
"Babies in the Wall” - Doreen Manuel (Writer/Director)
Mary is catapulted into a horrific struggle to right old wrongs when she discovers the bones of the missing and murdered babies of an Indian residential school.
“Capture the Flag” - Emma Campbell & Mitchell Stookey (Writers) & Darren Bachynski (Writer/Director)
Things get serious for two young boys playing a game of Capture the Flag when they get turned around in the woods and can't find their way back to their campsite.
"Ch'anchàl Gyù' (Worm in Moose Head)" - Jeneen Frei Njootli (Writer/Director) & Matthew Johnson (Producer)
Kahinjik, the central hero of many Gwitchin folk tales, is summoned by two elders who charge him with traveling to a foreign land - the crystal city (of Vancouver) - to retrieve the trapped soul of an ancestor.
“High Pressure Area” - Carleen Kyle (Writer/Director)
A former weather girl struggling with her current role as full-time caregiver for her incapacitated father decides to take creative advantage of two evangelists who show up at her father's door.
“Nudis” - Wayne Robinson (Writer/Director) & Nigel Edwards (Producer)
Sigmund, a conservative and conventional corporate climber, is struggling to complete a career-defining brief on an impossible timeline when he realizes that all of his co-workers have abandoned their clothes, and with them, their social masks.
“Peddle and Ride” - Carmen Lavigne & David Leach (Writers), Devon Ferguson (Director) & Bim Narine (Producer)
On the eve of their first big show, the members of Dragon Puke must devise an elaborate heist to raise the funds to bail out their drummer, who was busted robbing a coffee shop so he could buy the band new costumes.
“Sleepy Stories” - Andrew Rowe (Writer/Director)
A desperate insomniac resorts to calling the Sleepy Stories service, who send out the incredibly-boring Bertram to talk him to sleep.
“Survivor Grasp” - Stephen Emery-Coderre (Writer/Director)
Charles still carries the wounds from losing too many friends to AIDS a decade earlier, and it drives him to attempt to reconnect with a former lover whom he learns is hospitalized for cancer treatment.
“Telephone” - Andrew de Villiers (Writer/Director) & Jorah Fraser Porteous (Producer)
It's 1999, cell phones and instant messaging are changing how young people communicate, and Bobby's band is playing a big house party where he and Jeannie will see each other for the first time since their break-up. Jealous Veronica texts a nasty rumour to drive them even further apart, but the rumour takes on a life of its own as it passes around the party.
“The Vessel” - Marshall Axani (Writer/Director)
A mysterious device allows an operative on a rescue mission to manipulate the people standing between him and his captured brother.
“Underneath” - Laura Hope (Writer) & Tyler Funk (Writer/Director)
Emily becomes obsessed with her suspicion that the newest member of her swim team, a young burqini-clad Iranian woman, is hiding something.
The fabulous Crazy8s 2012 jury:
Marc Stephenson, Peg Campbell, Sally Catto, Rob LaBelle, Dylan Akio Smith and Sharon McGowan
“8 Minutes” - Rob Wenzek (Writer/Director) & Claire Queree (Producer)
“A Kitten Destroys Greek Mythology” - Andrew David Long (Writer/Director)
“A Mother’s Love” - Camille Mitchell (Writer/Director)
“A Red Girl’s Reasoning” - Elle-Maija Tailfeathers (Writer/Director) & Rose Stiffarm (Producer)
“Apartment 2B” - Riel Hahn (Writer) & Vicky Van (Writer/Director) & Pia Guerra (Writer/Producer)
“Babies in the Wall” - Doreen Manuel (Writer/Director)
“Back in Your Head” - Josh Holmes (Writer/Director)
“Blue Pencil” - Ken Tsui (Writer) & Kevan Funk (Writer/Director) & Haydn Wazelle (Producer)
“Bubble City” - Jordan Ellinger (Writer/Director) & Jordan Barnes-Crouse (Producer)
“Capture the Flag” - Emma Campbell & Mitchell Stookey (Writers) & Darren Bachynski (Writer/Director)
"Ch'anchal Gyu' (Worm in Moose Head)" - Jeneen Frei Njootli (Writer/Director) & Matthew Johnson (Producer)
“Coupon D’Etat” - Caleb Allard (Writer/Director) & Delia Tatiana (Producer)
“Falling in Love” - Byron Fudge (Writer/Director) & Jerry Pender (Producer)
“Get Ready for Love” - Jon Pesochin (Writer/Director)
“High Pressure Area” - Carleen Kyle (Writer/Director)
“I Manifest My Day” - Berenice Freedome (Writer) & Allison Beda (Director) & Dana Wilson (Producer)
“Jotunn” - Rory James Wood (Writer/Director)
“Kitsune” - Robyn Stubbs (Writer/Producer) & Stephen Stubbs (Director)
“Late” - Jilena Cori (Writer/Director)
“Living With Death” - Darren Campbell (Writer/Director)
“Margaret and June” - Levi Meadeni (Writer/Director)
“Mirror Man” - Ryan Catherwood (Writer/Director)
“Nudis” - Wayne Robinson (Writer/Director) & Nigel Edwards (Producer)
“Old People Stealing” - Mike Cosgrave (Writer) & Milton Ng (Director) & Bill Kal (Producer)
“Peddle and Ride” - Carmen Lavigne (Writer) & David Leach (Writer/Director) & Bim Narine (Producer)
“Private Hours” - Anthony Shim (Writer/Director) & Susan Dalton (Producer)
“Quintipus” - Victoria Angell (Writer/Director) & Amber Ripley (Producer)
“Reflective” - Diana Donaldson (Writer/Director) & Patrick Henry (Producer)
“Sleepy Stories” - Andrew Rowe (Writer/Director)
“Smile If You’re Depressed” - David Jol (Writer) & Matt Sawatzky (Director) & Jay Macmillan (Producer)
“Stitch” - Keith MacKenzie (Writer) & Patrick Sabongui (Director)
“Superzero” - Rob Meekison (Writer/Director)
“Survivor Grasp” - Stephen Emery-Coderre (Writer/Director)
“Telephone” - Andrew de Villiers (Writer/Director) & Jorah Fraser Porteous (Producer)
“The Mexican Sumos” - Jason Karman (Writer/Director)
“The Suicidal” - Andy Thompson (Writer/Director)
“The Vessel” - Marshall Axani (Writer/Director)
“Ty-ceratops” - Brent Hodge (Writer) & James Ricker (Director) & Lauren Bercovitch (Producer)
“Underneath” - Laura Hope (Writer) & Tyler Funk (Writer/Director)
“What Is: Stupid” - Bob Woolsey & Andrew Menzies (Writers) & Darren Borrowman (Director) & Keith Opatovsky (Producer)