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Written by: Elena Kaufman
Genre: Dark Comedy
Length: 60 min.
The Greek Furies were a chorus of winged creatures with bloody eyes and pet snakes, who hounded unrepentant criminals. Their passionate duty was to scour the land for murderers who went unpunished by law. These Furies or Eumenides appeared in Aeschylus’s trilogy “The Oresteia” as winged creatures, dripping with snakes...
Written by: Emily Adams
Genre: Dark Comedy
Length: 35 min.
Four acting students; Sophie, Dan, Shane, and Francesca, must perform a murder mystery dinner for their final performance; in competition for a paid internship with Shakespeare In The Park. This proves to be a difficult task, as the event takes places at a lake house in the middle of nowhere,...
Written by: Ali Joy Richardson
Genre: Dark Comedy, Drama
Length: 75 min.
2007. Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. A high school band class. A new teacher from Toronto wants to be an inspiration to his jaded students but is afraid to come out to them. A boy bullies a girl in insidious ways until she takes matters into her own hands. An act of...
Written by: Alexandra Lean
Genre: Dark Comedy, Musical/Opera
Length: 30 min.
Alice is a writer who has seen no success whatsoever despite writing every day for years. She has had enough and drives to the desert to kill the characters that she loves but that also haunt her.
Written by: Margot Greve
Genre: Dark Comedy
Length: 75 min.
LIT is a 90 minute, coming of age comedy that follows a group of teenage Firefly Scouts as they journey into the forest for a 3 day leadership retreat. The group of tight-knit girls (and one outlier) begin to reveal their true selves as time wears on: old fights are...
Written by: Kat Sandler
Genre: Dark Comedy
Length: 120 min.
“Mustard shouldn’t still be here, but he is. Imaginary friends don’t normally stay with their Person until that Person is a troubled teenager, exhibiting strangely violent behaviour. Imaginary friends don’t suddenly become visible to their Person’s mom and then go on a date with them, either. But Mustard is special....
Written by: Tracy Krauss
Genre: Adaptation, Dark Comedy
Length: 80 min.
The Bard goes cowboy in this adaptation of Shakespeare’s ‘The Western Tale’. Big Leo and Doc Xavier have been friends since boyhood, until Big Leo’s suspicious nature convinces him his wife, Ramona, and the Doc are having an affair. Following the original story line, he takes her to court where...
Written by: Penn Kemp
Genre: Dark Comedy, Drama, Historical
Length: 60 min.
Angel Makers follows the personal dramas of six women in an abortion ward, presenting different responses, and an examination of the role of nurses as the patients confront hospital bureaucracy. Acts: 1. A period piece from the Seventies that is still all too current. Directed by Anne Anglin.
Written by: Dorothy Dittrich
Genre: Comedy, Dark Comedy, Drama
Length: 90 min.
The Dissociates takes a darkly comic look at life and death, memory and healing. It is the story of Alex, a 50ish lesbian who finds herself dealing with the aftermath of a recent crisis. Working to repair her garden she tries to assess and reassess, often with broad strokes of...
Written by: Meredith Taylor-Parry
Genre: Dark Comedy, Drama
Length: 105 min.
“With a little help from a childhood friend, Samantha tells us a dark and comedic tale about motherhood, a medium and her obsession with the worst mother of all time. When She Was Good was shortlisted for Fem Fest 2020 hosted by Sarasvati Productions and will be a part of...