Farida
Based on the award winning novel by Naïm Kattan
Producer: Joe Balass
100 minutes, in development
Amidst the turmoil of 1930s Baghdad, a young Jewish nightclub singer and her fugitive lover on the run for murder, fight to preserve their passionate but perilous love, even as the weight of tradition, war, and betrayal closes in around them.
Mary, Mary
cowriters: Gabrielle Boulianne-Tremblay & Bruce LaBruce
director: Bruce LaBruce
Fiction, feature-length
status: in financing
Mary, Mary is a film about a trans woman who develops a strong emotional attachment to an unmarried nineteen-year-old pregnant girl. It’s a story about two lonely souls who feel like they don’t fit in anywhere coming together and bonding over the experience of having a baby.
Mary, Mary is, at its heart, a love story, and a movie about family. It’s a love story between two misfits from very different backgrounds brought together by fate who find in one other the potential to fulfill each other’s dreams. Mary is a trans woman who is running away from a dangerous incident from her past. Favour is a nineteen-year-old girl who finds herself pregnant and alone, having to move back in with her parents while she works at a shoe store.
Although both women have been marginalized for their transgressions, they bond over something that most people can relate to: a pregnancy, and the birth of a child.
Although the film may take as its main characters two women who don’t fit into society, it explores themes of love, female bonding, alienation and sacrifice through the lens of pregnancy and motherhood, experiences that are universal. Through the eyes of cult director and provocateur, Bruce LaBruce, the film challenges the audience to consider new and alternative definitions of both motherhood and family.
Faerie
Written & Directed By Eisha Marjara
Fiction, feature-length
status: in development
Based on the novel of the same name, Faerie follows a young South Asian psychiatric patient who is no ordinary teenager. Lila is a ‘faerie.’ A rare type of girl who is determined to preserve her childhood. The pain of growing up gave birth to the other-worldly creature that she is. She struggles between her impulse to be a weightless faerie and her desire to be happy and free.
Santo Cabron
written & directed by Bruce LaBruce
Fiction, feature-length
status: in financing
Notorious director, Jürgen Anger, travels to Jalisco, Mexico to make a film about the life of the chichifos (male hustlers). However, he attracts the attention of some shady characters like the young priest, con man and drug dealer, known as Cabrón. The priest belongs to a queer drug cartel, run by El Jefe. Cabrón wants the director to make a movie about him so he can become famous as a drug saint, but El Jefe has his own plans for Jürgen.
Santo Cabron establishes a new genre: a Queer Cartel Comedy. The tone of the film is camp and comedic, but it also includes scenes of gore and poetic violence. The movie will be shot in Mexico with post production in Montreal.
The Pregnancy Test
Writer: Holly Brace-Lavoie
Director: Holly Brace-Lavoie
Producer: Emmanuel Hessler
Executive Producer: Joe Balass
Language: English
Status: in development
Adapted from an award-winning short story by Angelique Lalonde, THE PREGNANCY TEST tells the story of five women who come across an abandoned pregnancy test in the public washroom of a small-town shopping center. Using visually and tonally distinct vignettes the story explores each woman’s visceral reactions to the discarded wand. Through their shared yet separate experiences, the film seeks to challenge our assumptions about womanhood, motherhood, personhood and privacy by embodying five unique female perspectives.
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