8th Annual Short Film Competition

Admission by donation

Reel Pride is very proud to support queer short films with this competition. Our festival is open to new Canadian short films and over the years we have featured films from all across the country. We award two prizes – a Jury Prize voted on by our panel of judges and an Audience Prize voted on by the audience that attends this film screening. We are very pleased that our new Presenting Sponsor, RBC is allowing us to add a cash prize of $250 for each winner. This is in addition to the $1,000 of in-kind services from William F. White International.

Please join us to see some wonderful short films. This is the largest number of films we have screened for this competition and remember you can be part of the excitement by voting for your favourite film!

The Girl Bunnies, Big Tree

Françoise Doherty | Montreal | 8:15 | 2011 Mimi and her chainsaw accidentally slice through a really cute girl bunny’s tree. With the help of a hockey stick, two hockey girls and a rather big deer, Mimi figures out her heart.

Angel

Dennis Envoldsen | Nova Scotia | 11:00 | 2010 A short odyssey through an evening in the life of a drag queen. On the most important night of the year, The Queen of Hearts Pageant, she’s finally about to arrive – but she may only be departing.

The Fruit Machine

Dennis Envoldsen | Nova Scotia | 12:00 | 2011 Iris has become increasingly concerned about her son’s recent behaviour. Her new husband assures her that it’s just a phase but that it may have left them vulnerable to intruders. A whimsical neo-noir family drama.

Lamento

Vivian Gottheim | Montreal | 1:00 | 2011 Only one image appears and disappears: that of a wildebeest grazing.

My BFF

Hot Thespian Action | Winnipeg | 3:54 | 2011 A twisted ghoul discovers a new way of life after her intended prey befriends her.

That’s Offensive

Hot Thespian Action | Winnipeg | 5:08 | 2011 A pleasant after-dinner chat between friends turns into a mine field of offences, when the group’s oversensitivity makes even the most mundane topics off-limits, until there is simply nothing to say.

Torture

Hot Thespian Action | Winnipeg | 4:06 | 2011 An evil mastermind fiendishly extracts secret information from an adventurer-professor of English using an ironic form of torture…bad grammar.

Cahier 1-4

Kim Kielhofner | Montreal | 9:35 | 2010 In this video’s four chapters,narratives that are woven into our everyday environment are pulled and stretched to reveal and repeat themselves in the hopes that through this we can become actors in our own lives.

Fade in Grey

Lamathilde | Montreal | 0:28 | 2011 As a video-sound-performance artist, Lamathilde uses her work to investigate identity through sexuality and gender using low-grade video, super 8, manipulated film footage and stop-motion animation.

Hockey Dyke in Canada version2

Lamathilde | Montreal | 3:09 | 2011 Watch out! Hockey can make you into a lesbian – a little piece of Patti Schmidt’s story.

Qu’est-ce que ça veut dire

Mihee-Nathalie Lemoine | Montreal | 1:40 | 2010 A Flemish song from childhood…changed into questions of identity… numbering people, gender and queer. English and French subtitles.

Love is a Hunter

Jessica MacCormack | Montreal | 3:03 | 2010 The surreal imagery of this film reflects a childhood where love is very much defined by one’s ability to hide from violence and pain.

The Unseen Force

Rob Macklin | Winnipeg | 19:45 | 2010 Russell -- separated from his partner – moves into his own apartment to live alone for the first time ever. A psychic is call in after he starts to experience other-worldly happenings at night. At the end he comes face to face with the unseen force.

Nothing Compares to You

Dayna McLeod | Montreal | 3:51 | 2011 This mashup forces Dr. House, as performed by Hugh Laurie, to “sing” Prince’s Nothing Compares to You the it song that was interpreted by Sinéad O’Connor.

Peptalk

Dayna McLeod | Montreal | 1:08 | 2011 This is a peptalk. A get-it-together peptalk!

Thong5

Dayna McLeod | Montreal | 4:10 | 2011 Thong5 is a pseudo-consumer report on thong panty liners, The Keeper, New York City and buying coolers in the US.

Motion of Struggle

Anita Shoepp | Montreal | 4:00 | 2011 A conceptual based video that honours the forgotten moments of beauty that arise from human struggle.