Join The Madlab Post in viewing a compilation of short films from the St. John's International Women's Film Festival. Films On the Go (FOTG) is a program featuring some of the festival's most exciting films that are on tour across Canadian provinces and beyond. The Madlab Post is bringing FOTG to the United States, highlighting films made by women, for everyone!
Waste It
Director: Emily Bridger
Canada (NL)
Karen attempts to grapple with the fleeting nature of romance through filmmaking, only to run into conflict with her surrounding cast and crew.
Game
Director: Jeannie Donohoe
USA
A high school sophomore moves to a new school and wants to try out for the reigning state champion boys basketball team. The player goes out and shows extraordinary skill, worthy of making the roster--until the team finds out the student’s biggest secret.
Cold Wind & Water: Life on the Northern Peninsula
Made by Students from Canon Richards Memorial Academy’s grade eight class
Canada (NL)
A short documentary film exploring what life is like for youth living on the remote and rural Northern Peninsula of Newfoundland and Labrador.
Life's short. Wear the sparkly earrings.
Director: Heidi Coombs-Thorne
Canada (NL)
This is a short film about the remarkable spirit of Janet Edmonds; an actor, writer, and artist from St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador who continued working, creating, and expressing herself until the very end of her battle with cancer. Janet exuded love and life constantly; many were comforted by her humour, her openness, and her honest expression of what she was going through.
Martin's Hagge
Director: Penny Eizenga
Canada
Martin, a middle-aged despondent writer, is burdened with Hagge--his wily personification of anxiety and depression. But after freewheeling Norah encroaches on Martin’s workspace, he learns apathy is a choice.
Hedgehog's Home
Director: Eva Cvijanović
Canada/Croatia
In a lush and lively forest lives a hedgehog; at once admired, respected and envied by the other animals. However, Hedgehog’s
unwavering devotion to his home annoys and mystifies a quartet of insatiable beasts: a cunning fox, an angry wolf, a gluttonous bear and a muddy boar. Together, the haughty brutes march off towards Hedgehog’s home to see just what is so precious about this “castle,
shiny and huge.”
All NightER
Made in the FRAMED West Educational Program
Canada (NL)
Set in Grenfell's green room on the eve of the big art history exam, Sam crashes Jamie's perfect study night in more ways than
one. This quirky comedic drama was written by Jana Gillis.
