Toronto Shorts International Film Festival presents: Program 1

August 22
 @ 5:00 pm
 - 6:30 pm
Double Edged – Dupin
Canada | Drama | 7 min

Director/Writer: Ricardo Pereira

Producer: Hanson Luo

Cast: Steven Dimitropoulos, Gerardo Willars, Hanson Luo

Short of a web series named Dupin that features crime and adventure through detectives.
The Pros and Cons of Killing Yourself
Canada | Drama | 12 min

Director: Matt Moreland, Jaden Curtis

Writer: Jaden Curtis

Producer: Jaden Curtis

Cast: Jaden Curtis

A troubled, lonely, and irreverent young man debates the merits of his own suicide over the course of a day.
The Astronomer’s Guide To The Past: The David Dunlap Observatory
Canada | Documentary | 9 min

Producer: Aizick Grimman

The work of a widow fulfilling the final wishes of a dead philanthropist and the dream of a Canadian Astronomer align to build a lost artifact in the woods at the highest peak in Richmond Hill, a city looking over Toronto.
Demon
Canada | Drama | 9 min

Director: Daniel Calderone

Writer: Daniel Calderone, Abiel Micheal

Producer: Daniel Calderone, Abiel Micheal, Yusuf Begg

Cast: Abiel Micheal, Ava Korley-Myron, Obi Obikudu

A group of bandits suspect someone among themselves has purposely misplaced the stolen money.
Love Language
USA | Drama | 20 min

Director: Robert Boyd

Writer: Robert Boyd, Ajinkya Dhage

Producer: Robert Boyd, Ajinkya Dhage

Cast: Ajinkya Dhage, Maria Del Pilar Rodriguez, Julianne Lea

A picky bachelor who keeps love at arm’s length is forced to reconsider dating when his mother issues an ultimatum.
The British Man
Mexico | Drama | 22 min

Director/Writer: Paula Rivera

Producer: Paula Rivera, Jerry Ciccoritti, Maria Fernanda López-Rueda

Cast: Iazua Larios, Jim Allodi, Caro Darman

This is the story of a moment in the life of Julia Pimentel, a middle class Mexican woman, with a clear social conscience, who has been living in Canada for the past 15 years but has decided to return, along with her dog, Jamones, to Mexico City to live.
Deja Vu
Canada | Drama | 14 min

Director: Jean Frenette

Writer: Jean Frenette, Naomi Frenette

Producer: Jean Frenette, Francois Sylvestre

Cast: Raphael Grosz-Harvey, Lynne Adams, Nobuya Shimamoto

John is convinced he’s been on this planet for longer than his lifetime.
This feeling of knowing more than what meets the eye troubles him deeply.

Details

Date:
August 22
Time:
5:00 pm
 - 6:30 pm

Venue

Innis Town Hall
Innis College
2 Sussex Ave
Toronto
, ON