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Before Christmas and After
Genre(s): Comedy
Logline:
Broke and at odds about how to get through the holidays, Christmas is beginning to look a little like a disaster for the Donovan family, and then they buy a puppy – and it begins to look like a total catastrophe.
Synopsis:
It's Christmas and thirteen year old Charles Donovan is just trying to keep his family from each other's throats. His mother is fed up with work, his brother is in trouble with bikers, his boozing uncle is visiting, and his father has just escaped from prison. When his older brother threatens to leave, Charles goes against his mother's wishes and purchases a dog as a Christmas gift – and gets unexpected results.
Bio:
CLEM MARTINI is a writer based in Calgary. His works for the screen include documentary, long form drama, comedy and series television
CLEM MARTINI, Writer
8428 64th Ave. N.W.
Calgary, AB T3B 4H3
Tel: (403) 288-1138
Fax: (403) 288-1138
martini@ucalgary.ca
Agent: Janine Cheeseman
Aurora Artists Inc.
19 Wroxeter Ave.
Toronto, ON, M4K 1J5
Tel: (416) 463-4634
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Bleed
Genre(s): Drama
Logline:
An edgy contemporary drama about three women, their relationship, their sex lives, and a stalker who threatens them all.
Synopsis:
Bleed is a contemporary dramatic thriller about three women facing their demons with men. Recently single, Alexis is a cold, attractive VJ who is unwittingly being stalked by Jason, an obsessed fan. In an attempt to get to her, Jason sleeps with her room-mate Jeanette, discovering that she has a penchant for video taping intimate liaisons. Ines leaves her boyfriend when he says no to keeping their baby. She moves in with Alexis and Jeanette and together they battle with their stuff around men, their friendship and lives threatened by the machinations of the obsessed and disturbed Jason.
Bio:
A graduate of the film program at Simon Fraser University, PENELOPE BUITENHUIS has worked as a director/filmmaker in Canada and Europe for the last 16 years. Her feature film credits as director include Boulevard with Rae Dawn Chong, Lance Henriksen and Lou Diamond Philips; the thriller Dangerous Attraction; and Trouble, written and directed in Berlin, which received Best Film honours at numerous festivals.
In television, Buitenhuis directed the Gemini-nominated CBC MOW Giant Mine, as well as several television series episodes including Hope Island, Madison, Wind at my Back, Kung Fu: The Legend Continues, Lonesome Dove and the pilot for Cold Squad. She has also written and directed three documentaries and fifteen short films. She is in development with a new feature script, Punk Not Dead.
PENELOPE BUITENHUIS, Writer
2098 E. 19th Ave.
Vancouver, BC V5N 2J3
Agent: Carl Liberman
The Characters
Tel: (416) 964-8522