GLOBAL DOC DAYS: Late Fragment

Director: Daryl Cloran, Anita Doron & Mateo Guez
Cast: Krista Bridges, Michael Healy, Jeff Parazzo
Format: HDCam  
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screening in: Global Doc Days: Canada

Screening Times

2:30 PM, Tuesday March 11th - Austin Suite @ ACC - BADGES ONLY
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Synopsis:
Boldly pushing storytelling into the realm of digital interactivity, this unique film allows the viewer to control the flow of the story with the click of a button. Late Fragment's multi-plot, non-linear and interactive narrative lets audiences discover the stories of three strangers. A young mother grappling with loss, a man reconnecting with his troubled son, and a male stripper facing his past -- Faye (Krista Bridges), Kevin (Michael Healy) and Theo (Jeff Parrazo) are drawn together as participants in a restorative justice process, where victims and offenders share their stories. Written and directed by three different directors (Anita Doron, Daryl Cloran, and Mat©o Guez), the stories intertwine according to the viewer's guidance, on a path to either redemption, reconciliation, or revenge. An illuminating and groundbreaking experiment produced by the Canadian Film Centre's Media Lab and the National Film Board of Canada, Late Fragment is an interactive film that addresses a new language for filmmaking in the 21st century.

Director's Bio:
Daryl Cloran / Writer / DirectorDaryl Cloran one of the three writer-directors of Late Fragment, North America's first interactive feature film. A graduate of the CFC Media Lab's Interactive Art & Entertainment program, Queen's University and the New York Film Academy, Cloran co-founded Trapeze, a digital production studio dedicated to developing and creating interactive entertainment. He directed numerous interactive digital video productions for Trapeze, including Special Delivery, SafeHouse and White Noise.An award-winning theatre director as well, Cloran is Artistic Director of Theatrefront. He has directed productions for the Shaw Festival, Soulpepper, CanStage, Manitoba Theatre Centre, Neptune Theatre, Tarragon Theatre, Grand Theatre, Factory Theatre, the Sarajevo International Winter Festival and the Baxter Theatre Centre in South Africa, among others.Winner of the Canada Council's John Hirsch Prize for Outstanding Emerging Theatre Director, the Toronto Theatre Emerging Artist Award and Halifax's Merritt Award for Outstanding Director, Cloran has received numerous Dora Mavor Moore Award nominations for his various productions.Anita Doron / Writer / DirectorAnita Doron is one of the three writer-directors of Late Fragment, North America's first interactive feature film. Born in Transcarpathia, this published poet, competitive skier and high-altitude mountaineer made her first film - an environmental protest picture - at age 12, only to get in trouble with the soviet bureaucracy.After an illegal escape from the USSR and life in the Middle East, Anita graduated from Ryerson University with two Norman Jewison Awards. Her first short film, Not a Fish Story, premiered at the 2003 Toronto International Film Festival. Her second short, Elliot Smelliot, a festival favourite, was broadcast on Showcase in 2005.Mentored by renowned filmmakers Deepa Mehta and Patricia Rozema, Doron was named one of 10 to watch by NOW Magazine and received the Kodak New Vision Fellowship. Her first feature, The End of Silence, starring Sarah Harmer, is broadcast on TMN and is part of Mongrel Media's prestigious Festival Collection.Mateo Guez / Writer / DirectorMateo Guez is one of the three writer-directors of Late Fragment, North America's first interactive feature film.A native of France, award-winning director, writer and producer Guez worked with Bernardo Bertolucci on The Dreamers (2002). He works in English and French, and in the past 10 years has written and directed several short films and documentaries that have screened around the world.His last short film, L'Ultima Notte, won raves in 2003 and 2004 at such festivals as the Toronto International Film Festival, the Berlin International Film Festival, and the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival.Guez has directed many music videos, such as Smokin' Lounge, featuring Canadian music icon Molly Johnson. For the last three years, he has worked with Motorola, directing films with mobile phones, such as Labour Day.Mateo Guez is in development on his new feature film entitled Innocent, with producer Sandra Cunningham.

Ana Serrano / Producer (CFC)Ana Serrano, producer, executive producer and interactive architect of Late Fragment, North America's first interactive feature film, is also the director of the CFC Media Lab, whose Interactive Narrative Feature Program (INFP) co-produced the movie with the National Film Board of Canada.Serrano, winner of three 2003 Canadian New Media Awards, was selected the sole Canadian expert panel member for the 2003, 2005 and 2007 World Summit Awards, part of the United Nations' World Summit on the Information Society. In 2000 she produced the Great Canadian Story Engine Project, a national tour and bilingual website comprising an interactive storytelling community for Canadians.Named one of Maclean's magazine's "100 Canadians to Watch," Serrano, active on the boards of many companies involved in interactive entertainments, adjudicates awards, teaches at York University, and speaks at international venues about the emerging realms of interactive art and entertainment.Anita Lee / Producer (NFB)Anita Lee, one of the producers of Late Fragment, North America's first interactive feature film, is a producer at the National Film Board of Canada. Prior to joining the NFB in 2005, Lee was an independent producer of award-winning films, including Proteus by John Greyson and The Art of Woo by Helen Lee. Her films, which have been nominated for multiple Gemini and Genie Awards, have screened worldwide, including at the Toronto International Film Festival, Berlin and Sundance. Her most recent film, The Bodybuilder and I (NFB/January Films), was awarded the Best Canadian Documentary Feature prize at Hot Docs. Lee is the founder of the Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival.