Cadenza Zhao | GERMANY
16 min | Art & Agency: Short Series
Supported by Art Not Shame

Kassandra Wedel, dancer, actress and artist, roams the city picking up inspiration from her surroundings to compose her own music and dance, challenging perceptions and understandings of sound and music. Her advantage? Her deafness.

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Samuel Kilpatrick | GUELPH
12 min | Art & Agency: Short Series
Supported by Art Not Shame

Alfred Engerer, a Toronto native and legendary glass- blower, lives a slow, nostalgia-filled life. After having his studio demolished for yet another condo, the experimental glass artist reminisces about his past and the future of his art.

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Mikaela Roberts | CANADA
9 min
Co-presented by Guelph Museums

A story about immigration, family, and the comfort of nature. After struggling with poverty and homesickness when he first arrived in Toronto in the 1950s after immigrating from Jamaica, Pappy’s one connection to home was his love of gardening.

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Sebastian Hill-Esbrand | CANADA
13 min | Art & Agency: Short Series
Supported by Art Not Shame

Maryam Tsegaye, a young woman from Fort McMurray, Alberta, enters a global competition for highschool students meant to inspire creative communication in science, and unexpectedly wins—defying the odds. Tsegaye reflects on her family, community and sense of self, before leaving home to start a new life far from home.

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Phyllis Grant | CANADA
8 min | Ages 4-12 | Morning Cartoons
Co-presented by Downtown Guelph Business Association

When an elder in the Mi'kmaq community offers Maq a small piece of pipestone, he carves a little person out of it. Proud of his work, the boy wants to impress his grandfather and journeys through the woods to find him.

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Lillian Chan | CANADA
7 min | Ages 4-12 | Morning Cartoons
Co-presented by Downtown Guelph Business Association

Jaime Lo's father is sent to Hong Kong for a year-long work assignment. As a shy Chinese-Canadian girl, Jaime Lo must use her creativity to cope with his absence.

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***Canadian Premier***
Marita Mayer | NORWAY
7 min | Ages 4-12 | Morning Cartoons
Co-presented by Downtown Guelph Business Association

During a game of hide and seek Vanja leaves the bright living room and enters a dimly lit courtyard, which has far too many dark corners, weird shadows and strange noises. How to overcome this fear?!

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Alanis Obomsawin | CANADA
24 min
Supported by Art Not Shame

Despite spending his early life away from his nation’s culture, renowned Haida artist Bill Reid always kept Haida Gwaii close to his heart. Alanis Obomsawin offers a beautiful tribute to her friend’s remarkable life and rich legacy.

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**World Premiere***
Brian G. Smith | CANADA
3 min | Pocket Series: Shorts

A tragicomic list of pandemic anxieties from A-Z, featuring the incredible artwork of Sean Sinclair-Day, a Toronto-based illustrator and writer, offering 26 reasons, in a quirky style, as to why the last two years have been so hard on all of us.

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Matt Soltys | GUELPH
9 min | Pocket Series: Shorts

A love letter to skateboarding amid the myriad responsibilities of life. Matt fell in love with skate culture as a teen. Twenty-five years later, now that he’s 40, has a family, is active in his community, and runs his own business, he still loves it.

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