"Ontario Forever"
Roberta must finish her art school thesis amid an anthropomorphic crisis of self-actualization in Northern Ontario.
Social & External
The people behind it
Isey Schaffer-Hooper
Roberta
Dan Azbel
The Professor (Voice)
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An Oxford Medical School graduate takes a position at a mental institution and soon becomes obsessed with a female mental patient, but he has no idea of a recent and horrifying staffing change.
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Short film made with the help of the Sundance Film Institute and serving as a proof-of-concept for the subsequent feature film.
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