PROJECTS IN DEVELOPMENT

OUT LATE

Thomas Michael | Writers: Thomas Michael & Paolo Mancini | Feature film / Fiction

After more than fifty years of repression, retired widower Angelo Borelli decides he can no longer live a lie and finally admits to himself that he’s gay. As he slowly journeys “out of the closet”, Angelo experiences a reawakening and maybe even the potential for real love. But when his three blue-collar grown children discover his secret, they refuse to accept that their macho Italian dad is gay. Each in their own way fights the truth and each in their own way must come to terms with it.

OUT LATE is a coming-of-age story where the age in question happens to be retirement. It’s
about discovering that love is scary no matter how old you may be. Told with equal parts quirky
humor and deep empathy, this is a story of taking ownership of who we are and finding the
courage to reclaim our lives.

GOOD BONES

Tara Johns | Writer: Tara Johns | Feature film / Fiction

When transplanted Montrealer Hannah King suddenly loses her life partner, JF, her friends just assume she’ll return “home” to BC. But for Hannah Montreal is home. That is until JF’s estranged daughter Jupiter surfaces to claim her inheritance: Half of Hannah’s house – and pretty much all her sense of belonging. But even as this unwilling Odd Couple races to buy the other one out, they discover things they really don’t want to know – like what they actually mean to each other.

MATER

Émilie Serri | Writer: Émilie Serri | Feature film / Fiction

Mater is the story of a metamorphosis.

It’s the odyssey of Raja, a Palestinian photographer on the verge of forty, who must abandon her human form and transform herself into an animal creature in order to become pregnant.

A contemporary fable that borrows from both genre film and poetry, Mater is an allegory of a woman’s shattering transformation into a mother.

AIMÉ ET FILLES

Fanny Mallette | Writer: Fanny Mallette | Feature film / Fiction

The sudden death of 75-year-old Aimé forces his three daughters to confront their past. As they struggle to clear out his cluttered home, they try to make peace with what their father passed on to them: the near-perfect art of fabrication.