Student Film Showcase 2007

The 4th annual Student Film Showcase was held on May 23rd, 2007 at the Alliance Atlantis Cumberland Cinemas to a sold-out crowd.

Fifteen schools across Canada are members of the Film School Consortium and each University, College or Institute submitted up to 60 minutes of short films, and the Student Film Showcase programming committee (Agata Smoluch Del Sorbo, Tania Reilly and Magali Simard) chose eleven shorts that made it in the 2007 Student Film Showcase programme. Out-of-town filmmakers were offered $500 Travel Bursaries to attend the events.

A filmmakers’ dinner, a Panel with director Hubert Davis and producer/publicist David Miller, an Alumni Lunch and a Workshop at Technicolor were held for the filmmakers between May 22nd and May 24th, 2007. The Jury members were Jennifer Chen, Daniel Iron and Rob Stefaniuk.

Technicolor Toronto and Fujifilm were the major sponsors of this event and offered prizes to the Grand Jury Prize winner and the Best Cinematography winner.

The event was a great success, one which was backed by strong ticket sales, the filmmakers’ enthusiasm and gratefulness as well as the audience’s great response.

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The Films

  • KEY LIME PIE

    Sheridan Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning
    Trevor Jimenez

    The dark life of a mobster is driven by his obsession for key lime pie in this vivid spin on the film noir genre.

  • VERSUS

    Peter Harvey
    Capilano College

    Witty repartee between two buddies having brunch becomes much more than hypothetical banter.

  • MEDICINE

    Ellen Tang
    Queen’s University

    A fluid rumination on family history, personal experience and memory, this filmic collage explores the inner workings of genetic predisposition.

  • THE LEGEND OF BORUTA

    Bartosz Nowakowski
    Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design

    While he is instructed to pillage a Polish catacomb, a reluctant German soldier bears witness to the sublimely supernatural – with chilling consequences.

  • SMOKESTACK

    Dylan Spencer
    Ryerson University

    Elena and Smokestack’s relationship is blossoming, but when an unexpected visitor appears, the entire world is thrown into creative chaos.

  • FOUR WALLS

    Raha Shirazi
    York University

    In this compelling drama, three Iranian women from different social groups are brought together between four walls one night, and the experience will change each of them forever.

  • MADRÖM

    Colin Cooper, Mitchell Fielding Warner
    University of British Columbia

    A lonely man’s loss leaves his crazed in this enigmatic and somber film about personality, isolation and revenge.

  • JOHN’S UNTITLED CLOCK

    Shine Mi-Hyang Park
    Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design

    A man’s life is wistfully reflected through his past interactions and life shaping experiences in this animated surrealist film.

  • BEHIND THE SCREEN

    Naoyuki Kadota
    Langara College

    Meeting up in the unlikeliest of places, characters from several well-known film genres discuss their roles and speculate what their narratives would be like without them.

  • THE BUMBLEBEE MAN

    Alex Heaslip, Ryan Cavan
    Humber College Institute of Technology & Advanced Learning

    A royal title and proper heir are at stake for the English bumblebee King as he searches for his Queen. Tragedy, treason, drugs and love guide this ingenious tale of an empire’s fate.

  • THE GREAT ESCAPE

    Samantha Youssef
    Concordia University

    A quick-thinking piñata escapes an otherwise predictable fate in this charming, artfully crafted animation.