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Screened Eruptions

LES SOFTIES

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  • Les Softies is a 10-minute short comedic film about two hitmen who go soft.

  • World Premiere at 2010 Toronto International Film Festival.

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FUNNY BUSINESS

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  • FUNNY BUSINESS is a 10-minute short romantic comedy about Eddie and Esther, a married couple who discover that humour can be an addictive aphrodisiac .
  • Won the 2011 Crazy8s Film Festival Contest.
  • World Premiere at Crazy8s' screening at Vancouver's Vogue Theatre.
  • Official Selection at the 2011 Edmonton International Film Festival
  • Official Selection at the 2011 New York City Hell's Kitchen Film Festival

MEATHEAD

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  • Meathead is a 3-minute short film noir set in the not-so-distant future where eating meat is illegal.

  • World Premiere at 2011 Port Moody Film Festival.

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GREENPEACE vs. COSTCO

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  • Greenpeace PSA that chronicles a protest against Costco for selling red-list fish.

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KISMET one to one hundred  (2-minute trailer for a play)

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  • KISMET one to one hundred is a play by The Chop Theatre featuring 100 interviews with 100 Canadians, ages 1 to 100, about life, death, fate and destiny.

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HOW TO DISAPPEAR COMPLETELY  (3-minute trailer for a one-man play)

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  • HOW TO DISAPPEAR COMPLETELY is a true story about a theatre lighting designer's love for his mother and the circumstances surrounding her death.


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STONED: Hemp Nation on Trial

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  • STONED: Hemp Nation on Trial is a 48-minute documentary directed and produced by Russell Bennett and co-directed by Sarah Jane Flynn.  Copyright 1998.

  • STONED is the story of Christopher Clay, who faces four life sentences for selling marijuana seeds and seedlings from his store Hemp Nation in London, Ontario.

  • STONED was the most popular documentary on CBC's Rough Cuts in 1998-99 and was nominated for Best Political Documentary at HotDocs! in 1999.


Live Disruptions

CRUDE LOVE
Love in the Time of the Oil Sands

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  • Crude Love is a 60-minute  play written by Gillian Bennett and Russell Bennett.  Copyright 2008.

  • Crude Love is an unlikely love story between Phyllis McCormack, a dump truck driver from Newfoundland and Abbie Waxman, an ex-Greenpeace eco-warrior from Toronto, set in Alberta's Tar Sands in the near future.

SELF-STORAGE

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  • Self-Storage is a 60-minute multi-character solo play written by Gillian Bennett.  Copyright 2005.

  • Self-Storage is about Normal, who decides to move into storage to get some space from her life.



ROCKET MAN

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  • Rocket Man is a 60-minute solo improvised play written by Russell Bennett and Gillian Bennett.  Copyright 2005.

  • Rocket Man features three characters' journeys to find love in the universe.

THE REEFER MAN

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  • The Reefer Man is a 75-minute multi-character solo play written by Russell Bennett and Gillian Bennett. Copyright 2004.

  • The Reefer Man is about Charlie Kovacs, a young lawyer with a secret gift of growing award-winning marijuana who tries to balance his secret garden with working at his father's law firm until the law catches up with him.


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