Her film Hekademia was awarded support from the National Film Board of Canada and the Canada Council for the Arts. She recently partook in the Women in the Director’s Chair Career Advancement Module, where she developed the feature version of A Safe Distance. Now , she and her partner Aidan West are now in pre-production for their newest short “Smoke Eater”, funded by the Harold Greenberg Fund. Gloria seeks to expand upon representations of women by creating stories that interrogate gender and foreground complicated female characters. Her work examines themes of loneliness, self-discovery, and relationships between women. She is passionate about featuring more women in front of and behind the camera, and fostering new talent in the BC film industry.
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Aidan West (writer/producer) is a writer and filmmaker. He is an alumnus of the SFU undergraduate film program. He is currently enrolled at the MFA screenwriting program at UCLA’s School of Theatre, Film, and Television. Recently he was awarded the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation screenwriting fellowship. His screenplays have placed in the second round at the Austin Film Festival, and have won awards through the California Film Awards, Canada International Film Festival, and placed as a quarter-finalist at the Fresh Voices Screenplay competition. His film, Ellen Infinity, produced through SFU’s film program, screened at the Newport Beach Film Festival, and other festivals across North America. He is a frequent producing partner and collaborator of Gloria Mercer, and a co-founder of See Horse Films.
Two women commiserate on their experiences with men while they make their way through the woods.
A Safe Distance will be showing as part of our BLUE program exhibiting July 15-19th, 2021!
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