Synopsis
Newfoundland, 1971. A neglected six-year-old girl struggles to cope with her mother's depression and her father's alcoholic rage. She Spends Her Days Alone, Fending for Herself, as Her Father Works and Her Mother Sleeps. At night, violence erupts around her, threatening to tear her family apart. But when the girl discovers a secret hidden within their home, her dysfunctional world takes on a strange new meaning.
Festivals
AWARDS
Best Atlantic Short
Atlantic International Film Festival, Canada, 2023
Outstanding Performance Award
Atlantic International Film Festival, Canada, 2023
Honourable Mention
Female Eye Film Festival, Canada, 2024
SELECTIONS
Vancouver International Film Festival, Canada, 2022
Montreal Nouveau Cinéma Festival, Canada, 2022
Silver Wave Film Festival, Canada, 2022
Kingston Canadian Film Festival, Canada, 2023
Les Filministes, Canada, 2023
Ohlar de Cinema, Brazil, 2023
Shanghai International Film Festival, China, 2023
Atlantic International Film Festival, Canada, 2023
Verin International Short Film Festival, Spain, 2023
Cinema on the Bayou, USA, 2024
Female Eye Film Festival, Canada, 2024
Edmonton International Film Festival, Canada, 2024
Director: Leah Johnston
Script: Leah Johnston
Interpretation: Briar Mosher, Rhiannon Morgan & Joel Thomas Hynes
DOP: Jason Buxton
Sound: Josh Owen, Olivia King
Editing: Leah Johnston
Production: Leah Johnston, Jason Buxton
Version
Original: English
Subtitles: French
Format
1.37/5.1 or stereo
DCP, Pro Res
LEAH JOHNSTON (WRITER/DIRECTOR) is an award-winning filmmaker from Nova Scotia, Canada. Her most recent short film, INGRID AND THE BLACK HOLE, premiered at Fantasia Film Festival and was showcased at over twenty film festivals, winning eight awards, including Best Canadian Short at Edmonton International Film Festival. She is the recipient of the Corus Fearless Female Filmmaker Award (2015), the $35,000 Bravofact/WIFT Prize (2015) and the National Screen Institute Drama Prize (2013). She graduated with a B.F.A. from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and is an alumni of the National Screen Institute, the Reykjavik Talent Lab and the Academy of Canadian Cinema Directing program.
