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- Canada's longest running showcase of independent short film. For over thirty years, CBC Television's Canadian Reflections has given Canada's best and brightest filmmakers a national audience.
- It is an absurd dramedy that explores the predatory nature of the funeral industry through the eyes of a working class Chinese family. Written and Directed by Rosie Choo Pidcock, the film draws on her personal experience planning her Mom's funeral and subsequent investigation into the cost of death care in North America. Starring Olivia Cheng and produced by Boldly in partnership with Special Delivery Productions and Mimosa Productions, the film follows a scrappy teenage girl dreams of attending theatre school. When her Mom dies unexpectedly the day she gets her acceptance letter, she is forced to choose between paying for the funeral or abandoning Mom's last rites in pursuit of her own future. Sorry For Your Cost is supported by the National Film Board of Canada, Canada Council for the Arts, British Columbia Arts Council and a generous community of audience members via the Seed&Spark crowdfunding platform.
- 1994. Virtuous Circle is a raw and emotional glimpse into the relationship between impressionable 13-year Charlie and his nihilistic 18-year old brother Luke. In and out of school, Luke's volatile relationship with authority and self-destructive apathy contrast with his love for his little brother. Despite their personal struggles, the brothers run together every day. The film follows their unorthodox training through the wild Canadian woods, across neighbour's lawns, highways, and dark nights, all in the pursuit of winning a famous regional long-distance race. By pushing each other to be better, they find power within themselves to transcend their problems and through this, stumble into a virtuous circle. The narrative explores the joys and pains of brotherhood through these vignettes and the emotional intricacy of the ordinary moments in between: the mundane arguments over finishing the milk and washing dishes, Luke's bipolar relationship with their overworked single mom, and the imperfect dynamics of how they test and express love in their relationship. However, when Charlie's innocent admiration leads him to reproduce some of Luke's mistakes, their drive to protect each other becomes obscured by their own weaknesses. The film explores their multifaceted brotherhood, and the constant fight to leave their vicious cycles behind to help the ones they love the most. In doing so, they reveal which victories really matter.