ReelHeART International Film Festival

Innis Town Hall, Innis College,
2 Sussex Street, U of T Campus, Toronto, M5S 1J5
(1 block south of St. George Subway)

Tom and Doug are not typically known for creating sensual visual poems celebrating passion. Beauty and surrender reveal the heart and celebrate the flesh, in a world where one’s “presence defines my existence in time.

Tom and Doug tell you the truth about Love.

8-minute black comedy short film about race-relations in England. A psychiatrist becomes increasingly alarmed at a young man’s relationship with his new girlfriend…
Starring Stirling Gallacher from BBC’s hit sitcom The Office, and BBC’s smash hit comedy sketch show Little Britain. Also starring Joe Absolom from BBC’s Number 1 rated drama ‘EastEnders’. Directed by multi Award-winning film-maker Matt Bloom, who was mentored by Baz Luhrmann.

Chump & Clump meet at a bus station. While waiting for the bus, which drives only once a week, a bizarre and wonderful friendship develops, that still prevails when all odds turn against our heroes.

When threatened with being fired by the new owner of her family’s restaurant, a young cook turns to some old family secrets to keep her dream of being a head chef alive. Warning: Do not eat an expensive meal before seeing this film…

Al’s favorite Hawaiian food restaurant has stopped delivery in his area. With only one street separating him from his Chicken Katsu passion, Al has to think outside the box. He has the food delivered to his car in a trendy supermarket parking lot. But this will be no ordinary meal, as Al experiences a world that makes the drama of an African watering hole look tame.

Dave, a starving screenwriter new to LA, is invited for dinner by his distant cousin Paul, an established actor on a daytime soap. Dave initially resists the invitation, but upon hearing that Paul takes gourmet cooking lessons and has an underwear-model girlfriend (Lauren), Dave eagerly accepts. He arrives to find a deliciously aromatic meal cooking, and that Lauren is, indeed, extremely appetizing as well… but what begins as a night of gourmet cuisine and innocent flirtation soon spins out of control, and Dave soon finds himself “stuck” in a situation between Paul and Lauren from which he can only pray he will escape!

A Scandal that Endures…and the Opera that Celebrates it….
A Good Whack: The Making of “Tonya and Nancy: The Opera” documents the opera by an erotic fiction writer that caused a worldwide sensation. With a tiny budget, a host of inexperienced performers, and one week to put it all together, would the opera meet expectations?
A Good Whack explores during the opera’s journey across the United States……and Tonya Harding herself weighs in.