COMING SOON
Directed and written by Daniel I. Schachter · Produced by Emily Gan and Daniel Schachter
With Carmen Rose, Eliazer Kramer and Dawn Ford
Meghan agrees to visit her ex-boyfriend’s mother in palliative care, but minutes before she enters the hospital room he reveals to her that his mother doesn’t know they’ve broken up. Meghan doesn’t want to go through with the ruse, but he twists her arm. Will his mother see through them?
SHORT | CANADA | 2023 | DRAMA | 16 MINUTES | 8K
Creative Notes from the director
I developed this film not the conventional way, by writing a script or an outline, but through a radical process that started with the actors and I. Together, we created characters from scratch, then for several months ran improvisations from which we drew our story material. In order to discover how Meghan and Alex would behave with one another, we improvised scenes that happened months and even years before the start of the film: their first encounter, their first hook-up, their first fight, etc. all the way to their break up. By the time we got to improvising scenes that are actually in the movie, we had an entire relationship history to draw on.
Daniel I. Schachter / Writer & Director
Daniel is a songwriter and filmmaker from Montreal. His short films have won prizes at festivals and been broadcast on TV. He releases albums under his first and middle names, Daniel Isaiah.
FILMOGRAPHY
Pink Lake (2020)
Entre chien et loup (2013)
Three Mothers (2008)
EMILY GAN / Producer
Emily Gan is a filmmaker, photographer, and yoga teacher who was born and raised in Montreal. Her first documentary, Cavebirds, was honored with the Emerging Filmmaker Prize at the Hot Docs festival in 2019. Subsequently, she collaborated with Daniel Isaiah Schachter to create her first fiction feature film titled Pink Lake, which had its world premiere at the Vancouver International Film Festival in 2020.
FILMOGRAPHY
Cavebirds (2019)
Pink Lake (2020)