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Shiner

Jimmy G. Pettigrew / 2017 / 20 min. / France/Canada / FRENCH / SUBS ENGLISH

Synopsis

A junk dealer is trapped inside a terribly unhealthy love triangle. He sinks into a fantasy world to avoid this horrible reality and he will try to finally show who he really is.    

Cast & Crew

  • Production : Off-Courts et Spira
  • Screenplay / Editing : Jimmy G. Pettigrew
  • Direction of photography : Yann Maritaud
  • Sound : Mathieu Massard
  • Musique : Antoine Binette Mercier
  • Mixing sound : Mathieu Campagna
  • Artistic direction : David Pleau et Maxence Debacker

Genre

Fiction

Topics

Fantasy, Sexuality, Elderly

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Biography

Jimmy G. Pettigrew graduated from the film and television school of Quebec City in 2006 with a diploma in directing in a beautiful little setting. With his colleague Francis Fortier, he immediately founded the collective "Le boîte insolente", where he produced, wrote, directed and edited the group's capsules for the web. Since then, he has independently produced and directed short fiction films. Jimmy participates in various creative laboratories while earning a living in cinema, cartoon, graphic design, illustration and the teaching of his art.

He founded the collective La vie est belle, which presents exclusive film screenings by filmmakers from Quebec City and elsewhere. Since 2017, he is also managing director of the Vitesse lumière fantasy film festival.

Festivals

- 2017 -
In Competition | Off-Courts, France

- 2018 -
In Competition | REGARD – Saguenay International Short Film Festival, Canada
In Competition | Imagine Film Festival, The Netherlands
In Competition | Festival du Cinéma de la Ville de Québec, Canada
Special Screening | Le Long Week-End du Court, Canada
In Competition | Apocalypse Later International Fantastic Film Festival, USA
In Competition | Festival Court Métrange, France

- 2019 -
In Competition | Un Poing c’est court, France
In Competition | Rendez-Vous Québec Cinéma, Canada

Awards

- 2018 -
Bronze Prize, Best Directing | Fantasia, Canada

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