Nowhere Normal has won Best Short Film at the Beyond the Curve Film Festival!
Have a look at all the winners here!
Best Short Film in Paris!
NN wins Best Comedy at Snow View!
Please check the festival’s website for all the September winners here.
Nowhere Normal nominated in Paris!
Nowhere Normal has been nominated for Best Short Film at the Beyond the Curve International Film Festival in Paris.
Winners will be announced next week!
Nowhere Normal in NYC!
Nowhere Normal‘s in-person world premiere will be at the New York City Short Comedy Film Festival !
To be selected by a festival focused on comedy, and in New York, NY, is a huge honour and assures us that, yes, the film is funny!
Should any fans be in New York, here is where to buy tickets. Nowhere Normal will be part of “Comedy Session 4”, starting at 6 pm on November 20, 2022.
Nowhere Normal and Digital Threads
The owner of the house where Nowhere Normal was shot is Jessie McKitrick, who is a knitwear designer. She recently wrote an article about Nowhere Normal for Digital Threads, here!
2 laurels in 1 day for Nowhere Normal
Another laurel for Nowhere Normal!
Crew: meet Heather Morrow
Heather has been writing for theatre since 1995. Her plays have been seen at the Walterdale Theatre and Fringe in Edmonton, and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Scotland. She is now in pre-production on a new short film, which Nowhere Normal‘s intimacy coordinator, Janine Waddell, will direct! Heather’s also adapting her full-length play Alex and Michael and Hannah into a full-length screenplay.
Looking for crew: NEXT film
Following the success of the short film Nowhere Normal this year, Janine Waddell will direct Heather Morrow‘s next short script, Reasons I Hate Being Single in the fall of 2023, in Edmonton, Alberta.
We’re applying to this fall’s funding cycle. Given the story’s subject, we would like notes of interest from Edmonton-based, female-identifying, and BIPOC crew, for the following positions:
- DOP
- Camera Operator
- Set Decorator
- Costume Supervisor
- Hair Stylists (including specialty hairstyling)
- Makeup (including effects makeup and prosthetics)
- Storyboard Artist
- Grip
- Cable Person
- Script Supervisor
This won’t we a full union production, but WILL pay IATSE rates.
If interested, please contact producer Heather Morrow at hmorrow@takeabite.ca
Nominee at SIFF!
Nowhere Normal has been nominated to compete for best film of September at the Swedish International Film Festival!