Films in Development

LOOK BOTH WAYS

Synopsis

A feature film for theatrical release
A drama about childhood for an adult audience

LOOK BOTH WAYS is seen through the eyes of a defiant, eight-year-old misfit, Vivian Cubbage, whose family emigrates from Yorkshire to small-town Canada. Definitely dark and excruciatingly humorous, it is the story of how Vivian copes with the accidental death of her mother and her father’s rebirth as a fundamentalist Christian. Unable to deal with her born-again dad, Vivian fights to get her ʻold dadʼ back again. In the process she finds the courage to be herself while under incredible pressure to conform. Peering into huge life questions through the eyes of an odd-ball child, LOOK BOTH WAYS is ultimately a tale of courage.

Development investment — Telefilm Canada

contact : Roz Owen
antiamnesiac@gmail.com

TRUTH OR DARE

Synopsis

TRUTH OR DARE is a story about Ruby (15) who is determined to reconnect with her sister Bella (10). After escaping her Cape Breton group home, Ruby jumps on a bus to Toronto. When she arrives on her sister’s doorstep, Bella’s adoptive parents are hell bent on sending Ruby back into care. Escaping into the ravine behind their Rosedale house, Ruby joins several teenagers living in tents who survive by committing petty crimes. Secretly, Ruby begins meeting Bella in the family’s garage and Bella starts to remember their previous life together. Truth or Dare questions what family means after one sister is left in care, abused by the system, while the younger sister is adopted out. It is a story about loyalty, and love; and how we need family, but not necessarily in the ways we imagine.

contact : Roz Owen
antiamnesiac@gmail.com