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Item Open Access Aum, She Who is Most Auspicious(2015-12-16) Dillon-Davis, Julia Kate Elizabeth; Buchbinder, AmnonLight seekers. Familial secrets. And parentified children. AUM, SHE WHO IS MOST AUSPICIOUS is a coming-of-age screenplay about what it means to care for others – and for our selves. On the morning she expects to leave for Europe to pursue music studies, 17-year-old Elise Lichten wakes to find her plane ticket gone – and her mother, too. It’s not the first time. As daughter to guru-seeking Paula, Elise and her sister Lily are used to their mother’s spiritual malaise and unannounced retreats at ashrams overseas. Elise is beyond ready to be free of her family. She has to find a place for her little sister to stay till their mother returns. At first, 17-year-old Gavin Cahill’s adoration for Elise comes with a family – a stable family – for Elise to entrust her sister. But when she begins to warm to his affections, she opens to a world she’s adamantly rejected: one of spiritual devotion, non-duality and an assuredness in the divine. Soon, she loses sight of her dream to study music and finds a new dream in Gavin. But their love comes at a cost: their relationship reveals long-hidden family secrets. When Paula returns, distant and vulnerable, Elise has to decide what she cares for most – and what she’s willing to lose in order to stand unapologetically in who she is. Combining research in storytelling, feminine psychology, and archetypes and mythology, AUM is a heroine’s journey about a young girl’s descent to the underworld and auspicious return.Item Open Access Eden Ridge(2023-10-04) Fryers, Caitlin Dawn; Buchbinder, AmnonIn 1876, Charlene “Charlie” Willows commits a crime that forces her to flee for her life. She disguises herself as a man and rides for the sanctuary of Canada. Before she can cross the border, she stumbles upon the scene of a serial killer - before he has left. She narrowly escapes with her life, merely knocked unconscious. Waking, Charlie finds herself in the custody of the men who hunt this killer: a doctor in the Canadian Northwest Mountain Police, a French scout, and two U.S. Marshals, who enlist her help to track down the murderer. But can she stop a killer while keeping her own crimes from coming to light?Item Open Access God of Toil(2016-09-20) McKinnon, Alex; Buchbinder, AmnonGod of Toil is a feature screenplay in the fantasy genre that questions the concepts of destiny and birthright while exploring the morality of war. The hero Rufus is a retired warrior of mythical stature desperate to leave behind his violent ways in order to live a life of pacifism and service. When forced back into service, he faces the reverberations of the atrocities he committed in his youth. In failing to right them despite his most earnest efforts, he confronts the potential of his own irredeemability.Item Open Access My Thesis Film: A Thesis Film by Erik Anderson(2016-09-20) Anderson, Erik; Buchbinder, AmnonMy Thesis Film: A thesis film by Erik Anderson is a narrative feature film which recursively explores the authors own journey in arriving at the concept for the thesis film the viewer is watching. As such, the film ultimately acts as its own contextual document, depicting the socio-economic, political, and creative reasoning behind its conception by way of dramatizing the behind-the-scenes life of the author. While the film takes some liberties in this dramatization -including fictionalizing scenes and dialogue, compositing characters, using discretion in veiling others, etc.- it aims to remain an honest depiction of the author in the time and place of its origin. In doing so, the film uses humour to call into question the ideas and ideals which permeate through its character-driven zeitgeist, especially those belonging to the author. And in problematizing the authors struggle to make transcendent personal art, the film ironically threatens to become it.Item Open Access Operation Avalanche(2016-09-20) Johnson, Jon Matthew; Buchbinder, AmnonA fake documentary about the CIA faking the Apollo 11 moon landing in 1969.Item Open Access Operation Untitled(2014-07-09) Demers, Joshua Andrew; Buchbinder, AmnonOperation Untitled is a screenplay exploring the self-empowerment of the individual against the socio-political and religious forces that inform the hierarchy of a Catholic high school. The protagonist, Peter Charles who becomes known by the moniker “the Prophet,” is a hard-working student from a lower class background who’s infatuated by his school and society’s promise that hard work = success. When he learns that he loses a life-changing scholarship simply because the recipient, “the Golden Boy” Richard Harding, has influence, his faith in this system is shattered. His subsequent journey of rebellion creates a school-wide revolution and with the power it brings him, the Prophet has a fateful decision: to replace Richard as “the Golden Boy” or to break the cycle of this broken system forever.Item Open Access Put to Rights(2016-11-25) Phikas Fics, Morgan Ioannis; Buchbinder, AmnonPut To Rights is a family drama about three brothers and their attempt to prepare for a traditional Easter barbecue for their hometowns Greek Orthodox Church. Yanni Vlaos, the youngest brother, goes through a journey of self-discovery as the events leading up to Greek Easter force him to confront his negative memories about his father and empathize with his brothers needs to save their family restaurant and reconnect with a community they have abandoned. Put To Rights examines the relationships of brothers and fathers and sons in a first generation Canadian family. It is a highly personal story that is partially adapted from my own life and centers around concepts of the Canadian hybrid identity, masculinity, memory, brotherhood, family, and the motivations behind abusive patriarchal figures.Item Open Access Retrograde(2020-05-11) Murray, Adrian Burke Archer; Buchbinder, AmnonRetrograde is a feature film screenplay that follows a disagreement between a police officer and a young woman who hold different interpretations of an incident leading to a traffic citation. After a jarring interaction with a police officer leaves her with a ticket for unsafe driving, Molly challenges the citation through the justice system. This battle bleeds into her personal life when Gabrielle, her housemate and key witness, doesn't come to her aid and seems to believe the official version of events. Molly refuses to pay the fine, and struggles to stand up to the system and hold the police officer accountable. When her drivers license is at stake, Molly must decide if her ideals are more important than her comfortable commuter lifestyle. Retrograde is a dryly comic, layered exploration of accountability, justice, truth, and institutional power dynamics.Item Open Access The Madisons Lost at Sea(2018-05-28) McNeil, Jacob William; Buchbinder, AmnonThe Madisons Lost at Sea is a feature-length screenplay about a family who was once shipwrecked on a deserted island. Twenty years later, their lives are still defined by the fallout of that experience and the way their story was co-opted by family patriarch John Madison. Drawn back into her fathers orbit by his plans for a stage adaptation of their tale, oldest daughter Winifred Madison struggles to take control of her story and confront the truth about her past on the island.Item Open Access Where the Blood Is(2019-11-22) Boles, Joshua William; Buchbinder, AmnonA feature length fiction screenplay combining the genres of horror, holiday, and family drama, Where the Blood Is tells the story of Bud O'Brien, a rural Ontario cop who must lure his estranged son John home for Christmas and convince him to sign over his inheritance in order to solve Bud's pressing money problems. What Bud doesn't know is that in the eight months John has been gone, he's become a vampire.Item Open Access White Bear(2016-11-25) Kingston, Helen Elisabeth; Buchbinder, AmnonWhite Bear is a feature film screenplay, developed and written over a period of four years. It tells the story of one womans flight and subsequent fight to protect herself and her family from a controlling religious organization. Discovering the Church is holding her sister captive, protagonist Brie Demott takes her son and sets out into the unknown, seeking help from the outside world. In the end she must attempt the rescue herself. Though she fails to free her sister, in the process she frees herself. The story examines the nature of courage and fear through the journey and transformation of its characters. It explores the nature of control at the heart of a religious organization and the repercussions that the renunciation of belief has on an individual and their family.