Mother’s Skin

SYNOPSIS: Newfoundland, 1971. A neglected six-year-old girl struggles to cope with her mother’s depression and her father’s alcoholic rage. She spends her days alone, fending for herself, as her father works and her mother sleeps. At night, violence erupts around her, threatening to tear her family apart. But when the girl discovers a secret hidden within their home, her dysfunctional world takes on a strange new meaning.

Distribution: La Distributice de Films

*Winner: Best Short – Atlantic International Film Festival 

*Winner: Joan Orenstein Award for Outstanding Performance – Briar Ainslie – Atlantic International Film Festival 

*Winner: Outstanding Performance by an Actor – Briar Ainslie – ACTRA Awards 

*Nominee: WIFT-AT Best Director Award

*Nominee: Best Short – Screen Nova Scotia Awards

*Honorable Mention:  Female Eye Film Festival

Festivals 

Shanghai International Film Festival – Finalist: Golden Goblet International Shorts Competition (China) ** International Premiere

Vancouver International Film Festival***Canadian Premiere

Cinema on the Bayou **American Premiere

Olhar de Cinema – Curitiba International Film Festival (Brazil) **South American Premiere

Thessaloniki International Shorts Film Festival (Greece) *** European Premiere

Atlantic International Film Festival – CBC Shorts Gala

Edmonton International Film Festival

Festival Internacional de Curtas de Verín (Spain)

Festival du Nouveau Cinema

Silver Wave Film Festival

Charlottetown Film Festival

Kingston Canadian Film Festival

Regina International Film Festival

Female Eye Film Festival

Vancouver International Women in Film Festival

Festival Filministes

Nickel Film Festival