Current Projects

The Red Hood

The Red Hood - Short

The Red Hood is a re-telling of the traditional fable Little Red Riding Hood set in rural Manitoba during the Great Depression. The director has created a work of lyrical realism that deconstructs the tale’s underlying gender moral.

 

Writer/Director: Danishka Esterhazy

Director of Photography:
Paul Suderman

Status: Festival submission. Shot March 19-21 2009.

Black Field

Black Field - Feature Film (Line Producer)

A Scottish homesteader pursues her fourteen year-old sister through the Manitoba wilderness when the girl elopes with a dangerous stranger.

Writer/Director: Danishka Esterhazy

Director of Photography:
Paul Suderman

Status: Festival circuit. Shot April - May 2009.

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The Innate Kindness of Elsie Wiebe - Short

In a dream-like vision, a man visits the death bed of a woman whose son he accidentally caused to drown, when he was himself a child. 

Writer/Director: Stephan Reckseidler

Director of Photography:
Paul Suderman

Status: Post-production. Shot August 2009

 

In Development

   

Yellowhead - Feature Film

A hitchhiker uses a Bolex camera to record his journey down the Yellowhead highway from Winnipeg to Jasper, capturing remembrances that are as much about him as they are about the people and poetic landscape.

Writer/Director/Co-producer: Kevin Nikkel

Director of Photography: Steve Morrison

Status: Financing. Early scenes shot July 2009.

   

Winterpeg - Feature Film

When her parents die, Scarlett, a teenage Toronto party girl is shipped off to Winnipeg to live with relatives she has never known. All she wants is to get back to her life in Toronto -- even if she has to make everyone around her as miserable as she is, and even if she is starting to thaw out from the warmth of her aunt, uncle and dorky-hot cousin.

Writers: Danishka Esterhazy, Polly Washburn, Iain MacLeod

Director: Iain MacLeod

Status: Script revision

   

Hello, Darling - Feature Film

A young girl and her family must face the reality of her mother's mental illness.

Writers: Shelagh Carter and Polly Washburn

Director: Shelagh Carter

Status: Script development

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