I Can Write With My Left Hand
4th Year Film SCA Film Screening
Friday, April 25, 2025 | 7:00 PM
Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema + Main Lobby
SFU School for the Contemporary Arts
149 W. Hastings St., Vancouver
Tickets: SFU Students: $10 // SFU Alumni/Faculty/Staff: $15 // Seniors (65+): $15 // General: $20
Please join us for I Can Write With My Left Hand, a showcase of the 4th Year Film Students鈥� Capstone projects.
Featuring films by Gregor C. Aquino, Theo Badzio-George, Emma Ciprian, Jamie Dovolis, Grace Esplen, Will Fitzsimmons, Adam Hoang, Xuan Wei Lau, Makena Leyh, Diana de Leyssac, Kai MacDonnell, Quinn Masselink, Anastasia Shatska, Carissa Toledo, and Kyle Wilton. With a special film installation by Ezra Sulin in the SCA lobby from April 14-28, 2025.
CONTENT WARNINGS
Photosensitivity and flashing images, firearms and violence, blood, suggestive themes of sexual assault and loss.
Program
Emma Ciprian 鈥� La Casa di Nonna
A young woman inherits her late grandmother's house, only to discover that it's magical.
Diana de Leyssac 鈥� There Have Always Been Horizons
A man takes to the highway in search of a farmhouse left abandoned on the Saskatchewan prairie.
Gregor Crawford Aquino 鈥� Los Aquino, y las Moreno
Carmen Reyes Moreno, grandmother to the filmmaker, pays homage to her husband, son, and mother in this portrait of the Aquino family that flowered from the roots of Santa Cruz, Piaxtla in the Mexican state of Puebla.
Adam Hoang 鈥� Here, There and Anywhere
Two starlets reunite on a fateful day in Vancouver, pondering one of the city's biggest mysteries and the elusiveness of stardom.
Grace Esplen 鈥� Fireweed
A young girl struggling with growing up is visited by one of her Gitsxan ancestors in her dreams.
Theo Badzio 鈥� Halia Carries the Water
In the isolating countryside, a young girl takes care of both her mother and little brother, existing in the precarious space between the two.
Quinn Masselink 鈥� Those That Held Me
A person returns to an old home to process their grief.
Carissa Toledo 鈥� Timpi Anemone
When an adventurous young girl escapes to an imaginary pond bright with aquatic life while her dad is napping, she must gather control over her flowing imagination before it floods her home, all while keeping her dad from sinking.
INTERMISSION
Xuan Wei Lau 鈥� Red: Reckoning (Vol. 2)
In the midst of Singapore鈥檚 Prime Ministerial elections, corruption ensues. When one of the candidates is mysteriously murdered, the vigilante, Red, is left to take matters into his own hands.
Kai MacDonnell 鈥� Just a Small Panic Attack
Okay, maybe it鈥檚 a slightly large panic attack.
Will Fitzsimmons 鈥� Mullein
A sound recorder collects noises in an abandoned lot.
James Dovolis 鈥� Racquetball
Kyle Wilton 鈥� Finger Guns
In the wake of his brother's death, a desperate steelworker sinks into a deadly game of corruption that threatens to cost him everything.
Makena Leyh 鈥� The Page Of Cups
A young queer woman navigates her grief and finds solace in an unlikely friend with a fresh perspective on life.
Anastasia Shatska 鈥� Blue Light
Exploration of the sweetness of girlhood and the bitterness of saying goodbye to it.
Film installation
Ezra Sulin 鈥� Why are you running
In order to appreciate who you are, you must appreciate the experiences that shaped you. An exploration of grief, gratitude, and recollection.