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Item Open Access Absence is Present(2015-08-29) Paskaljevic, Vladimir; Barta, TerezaAbsence Is Present is a short film about emotional aspects of immigration. It’s a story about two women: a daughter in Canada and a mother in Serbia. The daughter (Jelena), who is a young immigrant with a degree in Economics, seeks an appropriate job in Canada. As she does not have any “Canadian experience” she has to work in all kinds of menial jobs. This is mainly why Jelena’s mother Rada is reluctant of the idea of her daughter being an immigrant. The film begins when Rada faints on a street and loses the family dog Srećko. Throughout the she struggles with corrupted Serbian health care system while she searches for the dog throughout city of Belgrade. The purpose of this thesis paper is to examine creative process over the course of making the short film Absence Is Present.Item Open Access Fail to Appear(2019-03-05) Bourges, Antoine; Barta, TerezaFail to Appear is a feature length drama about Isolde, a new case manager in a low income neighborhood of Toronto, and her client Eric, a man with a history of mental illness who runs into trouble with the law. This film combines fictional and documentary elements to create an observational film touching on themes of social justice, and alienation. It is also a study of two characters through the prism of the systems and institutions they have to navigate as worker and client respectively.Item Open Access Life with John(2016-09-20) Labik, Michal; Barta, TerezaLife with John is a 15-minute fiction film about a married couple, Peter and Elena, whose lives are disturbed when Peter's imaginary friend John comes to stay in their small apartment. Having hosted similar visitors in the past, Elena decides to play along and pretends that John is real. However, as John's stay prolongs itself, the lines between what's real and what's imaginary begin to blur, until the point where Elena begins to doubt her own sense of reality. The film combines elements of dark comedy and psychological thriller to explore ideas around the differences in people's perceptions of reality, but also around long-term relationships and alienation from self. Life with John aims to be a battlefield of perceptions, one that illustrates how mental differences lead to people inhabiting very different worlds.Item Open Access Little Miracles(2016-09-20) Miller, Matthew Eric; Barta, TerezaLittle Miracles is a feature length screenplay. Is slowly reveals the story of a man who desperately wants to be a father, in spite of his own infertility. After being abandoned by his wife five years earlier because she wanted to conceive children naturally, Adam transforms into a commitment-phobe and sex addict until he finally meets his match in Jess. As he prepares to take the plunge and plant roots with her, he is visited by a past partner (Emma) who informs him that she is pregnant with his child. While Adam knows (and the audience knows) that the child cannot be his, he is forced to make a decision between the woman he loves and the possibility of having the thing he has always desireda child of his own.Item Open Access Making Coffee(2016-09-20) Bello-Sanchez, Reiner; Barta, TerezaMaking Coffee is a fiction film shot in Toronto during the spring of 2014. It is a social drama that explores the fatherson relationship within a contemporary Canadian society. The story also touches upon issues of immigration and the importance of friendship in coping with loneliness in a foreign society.Item Open Access Puer Fungus(2023-12-08) Miroshnik, Michail; Barta, Tereza“Puer Fungus” is a character study of Eyal Glass, Once a tech marketer at Fiverr Inc, Eyal now embarks on running his own ambitious start-up, blending psychedelics and animal recovery into an experimental venture. Eyal's inspiration stems from his own transformative psychedelic experiences, which he believes hold the answer to society's deepest struggles. As the documentary unfolds, Eyal's life unravels in the face of rejections and his own feral ambition. The film candidly explores the complexities and blindsides of entrepreneurship, the toll it takes on mental well-being, and the consequences of chasing visionary dreams.Item Open Access Retributive Minds(2020-08-11) Mohit, Mehrtash; Barta, TerezaRetributive Minds is a narrative short film in which Javid, an Iranian living abroad, returns to his home country to mourn the sudden death of his sister. Throughout this film, we understand that his sister has been the subject of an ideologically-motivated murder. It is the law in Iran that he is now responsible to make the decision on the perpetrators ultimate punishment. Retributive Minds utilizes a specific law in Iran, Qisas, to explore the serious ethical and personal dilemmas that a judiciary system influenced by religion can pose to an individual.Item Open Access Slumber Party(2015-12-16) Paz, Maya; Barta, TerezaSlumber Party is a short film about the constant struggle between expectation and reality. Over the course of one, meaningful night, Libby realizes that everything she had been waiting for was not what she expected, and that in order to start living, she needs to let her expectations, and her past, go.Item Open Access Sunday, July 31st(2024-07-18) Motazedi, Meysam; Barta, TerezaMy thesis film Sunday, July 31st is an exercise in abandonment—with it, I leave the lingering ghosts of a tumultuous childhood behind and finally step out of my father’s ubiquitous shadow. In a way, it is a dreamy retelling of our relationship. Framed through a restrained yet poignant lens, the narrative charts the journey of Pejman, the protagonist, as he embarks on a pivotal transformation from adolescence to adulthood. We observe as a seemingly insignificant misstep culminates in a powerful declaration of selfhood, throwing open the doors to a tenuous freedom that jars as much as it thrills. As the story reaches its coda, it exposes the restorative potency of truth, prompting the viewer to question their own notions of right and wrong, good and bad.