CineVic Members Screening @ VFF
February 16 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
CineVic Screening @ VFF 2025
We are thrilled to once again return to the Victoria Film Festival with our annual screening of local films, showcasing the diversity of work created by our amazing members – from comedy to drama, documentary, music video, and even a dash of futurism.
Sunday 16 February 2025
7:30pm
Cinecenta @ UVic
Student Union Building
3800 Finnerty Rd.
Victoria BC
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CineVic is an artist-run society supporting independent filmmakers and media artists with accessible programming, affordable equipment, professional development resources, and cinematic exhibition opportunities since 1991. We acknowledge and respect the long and continuing history of the Lək̓ ʷəŋən-speaking people, now known as the Songhees and Esquimalt First Nations, on whose traditional and unceded territory we carry out our creative activities.
Total runtime: 100 minutes
Screening will be followed by a short Q&A with filmmakers in attendance.
bbno$ – it boy
Shiraz Higgins
3 minutes
Always be zooming.
I am a director and insane person from Victoria, BC. In 2011, I threw my law school ambitions to the side after having my life changed by seeing Jackass 3D in theatres. I realized life is too short not to do what you love.
The Museum of the Abortion Wars
Joyce Kline
17 minutes
A 22nd century audience attends a TED-style presentation on a divisive conflict of the past – the battle over abortion rights.
Joyce is a Leo award winning production designer and writer/director with a passion for storytelling. Formally trained as a visual artist, she draws on wide-ranging experience as a writer, playwright, dancer, set decorator and installation, performance and storyboard artist. Her debut film Cancelled Stamp was voted Audience Favourite Best Short in the 2022 Victoria Film Festival and Leo nominated for Best Production Design in a Short Drama. Her screenplays have been quarter and semi-finalists in international competitions, and she hosts Push In: The CineVic Podcast.
Tarantinator
Ali Tahmasebi
4 minutes
Two friends with opposing views on Quentin Tarantino plan to sneak into his Q&A, but chaos ensues.
Ali Tahmasebi is a writer, director, and producer. He was born in Tehran, Iran and is known for his work on Tarantinator, The Painted Dream, and The Eternal Role. He received his first credit as a Technical Assistant at ILM for his work on Marvel’s TV show “Echo”.
Dinner Reservations
George Popi
11 minutes
An inside glimpse of a festive family dinner and the dynamics when the nosey neighbour is stirring the pot.
George Popi, a jack of all trades. A talented director, editor, producer and camera operator or director of photography. If you need it done, George is your guy! Dinner Reservations was the winner of the 2024 Snakebite Film Festival 5-Day Film Challenge in Kelowna, and took second place at 2024 Okanagan Screen Awards for Best Short Film.
Sandcastles
Susan Ko
23 minutes
Aime and Steven, a young couple with disabilities, face challenges when their parents think the relationship needs to end after Steven has a life changing operation.
Susan Ko is a Victoria based writer/director and actor. Her education includes a Combined Specialist Honours Degree from the University College Drama Program at the University of Toronto. In the last fifteen years she has been acting locally on stage and in independent films, as well and writing, directing and producing her own short films. She has received over 16 awards for her shorts In The End and Closing Walls, including Best Short Film, and Best Director. Sandcastles is very close to her heart, given her background as a social worker, where she spent her career working with those marginalized in our society; primarily with individuals with diversabilities.
Keep The Light On – The Carlines
Jeremy Lutter
4 minutes
A man desperately tries to keep his relationship going. A story set to music by The Carlines.
Jeremy Lutter is an award filmmaker born in Victoria BC who has made a career telling stories about monsters, robots and broken people trying to make sense of this confusing world.
Holdouts / 홀드아웃
Arnold Lim
4 minutes
When a deadly underground coal fire threatens her isolated hometown, a dedicated firefighter must convince the denial-fueled holdouts to evacuate before it is too late.
Arnold Lim is an Independent director and producer who won Telefilm’s Talent to Watch grant twice with past awards, including the Director’s Guild of Canada’s Greenlight award for Obscura, which won the 2024 Leo Awards for Best Short Film and Best Screenwriting. A video journalist of more than a decade and Photography Manager for five Olympic Games, he hails from Victoria B.C. where he lives with his wife and two children.
A Beautiful Peace
Mia Golden
23 minutes
Family and friends attending a memorial of a loved one are forever changed when the elderly patriarch sends out a message for the world to hear.
Mia Golden is a Jamaican born, Canadian filmmaker. Golden has written, directed and produced a variety of film projects including short narratives, feature films, and documentaries. She currently has one feature documentary in post-production, one feature dramatic narrative in development, a pilot, and another feature documentary in development.
Ruth
Shana Gibson
6 minutes
Ruth is about one woman’s vision to bring neighbours together to grow food, flowers and friendships in unlikely places.
Shana Lee Gibson is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and writer. Her films have screened at Yale, the San Francisco Indie Festival, the Waterford Film Festival, and the Short. Sweet Festival. Grief and Joy (2022) streams on CGood TV. Ruth (2023) won Best Cinematography at the Art of Documentary Fall 2023 competition.
Oh Pray Tell – The Rain It Falls
Aubrey Burke
5 minutes
Times feel heavy. For many, they have for a long time. This is our humble offering, and it felt like the right moment to share it with you. We wrote this song for our kids, for ourselves, and for anyone who might need it. It’s about radical acceptance—not saying everything will be okay, but acknowledging that sometimes, it just is what it is. When the path feels uncertain, all we can do is take the next step in front of us. Thank you for listening.
Aubrey Burke is a multidisciplinary artist and emerging filmmaker with a background in visual arts, performance, and music. Immersed in the film industry, Aubrey combines technical skill and creativity to craft compelling stories, from music videos to documentaries, while bringing a unique and thoughtful approach to visual storytelling.