The Curtain
Director: Leslie Ann Coles
International Short - Narrative
Drama |
Canada |
16 min
English
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Mother-daughter tensions bind one generation to the next in a seedy motel room where love, sex, and a wish for redemption lurk beyond the curtain when Beatrice, 50, is confronted with her own mortality. Beatrice revisits an old haunt from her childhood to reconcile herself with those she loves, evoking the memory of her mother following a mastectomy.
Screens in Shorts Program: An Extraordinary Place
Shorts Program: An Extraordinary Place
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Director’s bio:
“The Curtain” won the WeSCREENShorts Screenplay Finalist Award. As a writer/director, Coles works with scripted and unscripted material. She works as executive director of the Female Eye Film Festival.
In 2023, Coles received a scholarship and Honourable Mention from the Law Firm of Stacey A. Davis at the Stowe Story Lab for her debut feature screenplay, “Soiled Dove,” a female-driven western with development funding from Telefilm Canada. “Soiled Dove” is on Coverfly’s Red List, winner of 12 international finalist screenwriting awards.
Her multi-award-winning feature documentary “Melody Makers” – and companion interactive digital media (IDM) – which she wrote, produced, and directed, was released in 2019 with the support of Telefilm Canada. “Melody Makers” was originally licensed by CBC’s Documentary Channel, and received an award at the Jersey Shore Film Festival.
Fascinated by the folklore of roadside motels built for motorists in the 1920’s, I contemplated a story that could unfold over the course of one day, from a one-star motel room. This inspired an intergenerational story that traverses two time periods.
The flashback (circa 1973) was filmed on a Super 16 Bolex camera blending analogue film, photography, and sound with digital (modern day scene) . As with my previous films, the production crew are all female-identifying.