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JESS LEE | CANADA | 2023 | 18 MIN |ENGLISH

JESS LEE | CANADA | 2023 | 18 MIN |ENGLISH

ONLINEShortQueerment QuébecCOMPETITION

Presented by

PHI

Synopsis

Five thousand twenty five walks. Fifty-two miles of floors mopped. Seventy hours watching movie stars kiss. Alice, a headstrong elder dyke, navigates environmentally induced illness while she contends with her unique notion of legacy.

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Filmmaker Bio

Jess Lee (she/her) is a director, screenwriter and script supervisor based in Montréal, Canada. Her short film Sweet Affliction screened at festivals internationally, including image+nation30 (2017) where it won the Prix du Public award. Her experimental films and music videos have also been showcased internationally, garnering over 28,000 views. She is currently developing her first feature. Jess Lee is invested in creating expansive character studies that offer complicated stories of human error. With a propensity toward maximalism, Lee’s films are off kilter, awkwardly funny and intimately connected.

Producer

Jess Lee, Jeanne-Marie Poulain, Anaëlle Béglet, Line Sander Egede, Irène Bessone

Writer

Jess Lee

Cinematographer

Yan Clément

Cast

  • Moe Angelos
  • Cat Lemieux
  • Joelle Jeremie
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