Ranger
2017/Canada
For 30 years the Canadian vessel M.V. Northern Ranger—or Ranger, as it is affectionately known by locals—has tirelessly navigated narrow straits and unpredictable weather along the remote Labrador coastline. This short documentary explores the visual and sonic spaces of the vessel, as passengers and crew are united on a long journey home.
Screenings:
Camden International Film Festival
Vancouver International Film Festival
Festival du Nouveau Cinéma
Big Sky Documentary Film Festival
Victoria Film Festival
Halifax International Film Festival
Highway to Heaven
2019/Canada
This short symphonic documentary offers a glimpse into the unique religious co-existence found along No. 5 Road in Richmond, British Columbia. Highway to Heaven takes audiences into many of the temples, mosques, and churches that call No. 5 home, revealing unity despite difference across these diverse cultural spaces. In a world struggling with religious violence and intolerance, the film crafts a gentle portrait of a rare landscape using attentive imagery and an acoustic tapestry of prayer.
Nominee Best Short Nonfiction at Banff World Media Festival
Screenings:
Toronto International Film Festival
Chicago International Film Festival
Vancouver International Film Festival
Salem Film Festival
ReFrame Film Festival
IFFO
Ulju Mountain Film Festival South Korea
Watch on NFB.ca and CBC Gem and Knowledge Network
Ottu
2024/Canada/France/Italy
A filmmaker searches for the eight winds of the Mediterranean on the island of Corsica. Using found footage and employing 16mm hand-processing experiments that attempt to expose its ethereal subject, the film brings audiences to abandoned churches, cemeteries, and ravaged beaches in its quest to find meaning in that which is invisible and has neither source nor end.
Screenings:
CPH:DOX
Ann Arbor Film Festival
DOXA
Supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
Au Printemps
(in development)/Canada
A documentary tone poem that takes audiences on a seasonal journey across the diverse Canadian landscape. The film explores the intersection of culture, ecology and economy in unlikely places and invites audiences to reflect on climate change as a shared and deeply interconnected national issue in need of urgent attention.
Supported by the Canada Council for the Arts.