Having won four awards including Best Dramatic Short Film at the Niagara Independent Film Festival, WILDFLOWERS is a quiet, beautifully realized parable of loss, love, serendipity and redemption. Two characters, one ancient and one young, discover that it's the little things that can make all the difference. Life has lost its color for the Old Man (Guy Crevier, THE ECSTASY NOTE), and he means to end it as soon as he finishes his last painting; his own memorial, to be left behind for a woman already dead. But a visit from a young girl (Jade Roy, THE SHINE) might just change all that... With a little help from the world outside...
LES FLEURS SAUVAGES suit le malaise d'un vieux peintre (Guy Crevier, THE ECSTASY NOTE), qui est consommé par sa solitude et veut mettre fin ses jours après avoir complété une dernière peinture: son propre monument commémoratif qu'il laisserait pour une femme déjà morte. Sa journée s'éclaircie rapidement pas la visite d'une jeune fille (Jade Roy, THE SHINE).
THE CAST
GUY CREVIER as the Old Man
JADE ROY as the Young Girl
THE CREW
Writer/Director: GEOFFREY ULOTH
Executive Producer: GEOFFREY ULOTH
Producers: AGATA DE SANTIS and GEOFFREY ULOTH
Director of Photography: YVES BÉLANGER, C.S.C.
Production Designer: ERIC BARBEAU
Editor: SOPHIE LEBLOND
Sound Designer: JEAN-SÉBASTIEN DUROCHER
Original Music: OLESKA LOZOWCHUK
FESTIVAL SCREENINGS
2003 Montreal World Film Festival (Montreal, Canada)
2003 Toronto International Film Festival (Toronto, Canada)
2003 Quebec City’s International Film Festival (Quebec City, Canada)
2004 Clermont Ferrand Short Film Festival (Clermont Ferrand, France)
2004 Les Rendez-Vous du Cinéma Québécois (Montreal, Canada)
2004 Regard sur le Court métrage au Saguenay (Jonquière, Canada)
2004 NSI FilmExchange Canadian Film Festival (Winnipeg, Canada)
2004 Seattle International Film Festival (Seattle, USA)
2004 Yorkton Short Film & Video Festival (Yorkton, Canada)
2004 Festival de Cine de Huesca (Huesca, Spain)
2004 Nickel Independent Film & Video Festival (St. John’s, Newfoundland)
2004 Rhode Island International Film Festival (Providence, USA)
2004 Off-Courts Trouville (Trouville, France)
2004 Vancouver International Film Festival (Vancouver, Canada)
2004 Festival international du film francophone de Namur (Namur, Belgium)
2004 Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival (Fort Lauderdale, USA)
2004 Cork Film Festival (Ireland)
2004 Festival Tous Courts (Aix en Provence, France)
2005 Cleveland International Film Festival (Cleveland, USA)
2005 Tiburon International Film Festival (Tiburon, USA)
2005 Niagara Indie Filmfest (Niagara, Canada)
AWARDS
2004 Best Cinematography in a Dramatic Short, Canadian Society of Cinematographers Award
2004 Best Cinematography, Golden Sheaf Award (Canada)
2004 Best Art Direction, Golden Sheaf Award (Canada)
2005 Best Independent Drama, Niagara Indie Filmfest (Canada)