STORY films are 10-15 minute shorts from directors, producers and editors in the Norman Jewison Film Program at the Canadian Film Centre. The films are professionally produced in the fall, edited before the New Year, and submitted to the international festival circuit. Recent STORY films have premiered at TIFF, VIFF, CIFF, Fantasia and many more! This is a chance for actors to connect with Canada’s most exciting emerging talent, both on and off screen, and to collaborate with writer/directors on a piece that supports a feature film in development.

All booked cast will be invited to an Industry Screening in December.

Director's Bio
Guillermo de la Rosa is an award-winning Venezuelan Canadian writer-director based in Toronto, Canada. His directorial work has screened in North America, South America, and Europe, including A Noise That Carries (Toronto After Dark, PANIC Fest, Renegade Film Festival), Light for Freedom (JAYU Human Rights Film Festival, Buddhist Film Festival Europe), and The Crocodile and the Capybara (distributed by Bell Media). His latest short film Forever, Liam continues garnering accolades, including BEST LONG FORM SHORT at Panic Fest and BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT at Nevermore Film Festival. It’s also an official selection for the Academy Award qualifying Los Angeles Latino Film Festival.

He co-wrote The Shadow of the Sun, Venezuela’s entry for the 96th Academy Awards and is also the author of Su Grito en el Viento, where he adapts real-life encounters with ghosts and apparitions into short stories.
Guillermo draws from Venezuelan folklore, where the mundane and the otherworldly intertwine. Blending naturalism with magical realism, he challenges perceptions of belonging and normalcy and marries the grotesque with the beautiful. He is currently developing his first feature film, inspired by spectres and the nature of death in South America.

Julio is very sick, and the only way to recover is to commune with a ghost. His father fears he won’t survive the night, while his grandmother insists the encounter will make him stronger. Alone, helpless and afraid, Julio meets Saúl, a hungry and demanding ghost, and slowly learns what he wants from him. When morning comes, Julio is alive – but no longer the same.