Projects in development
Title: Canning with Myrna
Genre: short documentary
Logline: Over an August weekend in the Yukon territory, Myrna an octogenarian great-grandmother shares the tradition of canning with her middle-aged son as she experiences the transitions of old age: gradual loss of her vision and the inevitable move from her lakeview home to an apartment in the city.
Status: production
Title: Beyond Mile Zero
Genre: feature documentary
Logline: Eighty-four years after the Alaska Highway was built, the thriving community anchored by lodges scattered along the highway’s 2,232-kilometre length is a shadow of its former self. Today’s tenacious lodge owners keep the legacy of lodge hospitality of their forbears alive against a backdrop of high fuel prices, sparse highway traffic, high costs and political tensions.
Status: preproduction
Title: The Upgrade
Genre: short narrative
Logline: A geriatric Citizen-Scientist’s body-modification experiment goes horribly wrong when she dissolves her husband’s body. Reduced to a brain in a jar, he demands she make him another body but the unexpected results fracture their marriage.
Status: preproduction
Title: The Ferals (Cookie Hammer Inc)
Roles: producer, co-writer and co-creator
Genre: proof of concept for live-action comedy series
Logline: When two bush-raised conspiracy-theory believing siblings accidentally end up in the northern town of Whitehorse they struggle to fit into the norms of civilization and upend the townsfolk’s ideas of what it means to be civilized.
Production status: development (teaser available)
Released
Title: Whalefall
Genre: short documentary
When a whale dies of natural causes, their body slowly decomposes in the ocean, nourishing the environment. This is called “whalefall”. In 2006, off the coast of Vancouver Island, Canada, a juvenile humpback whale drowned when her tail was caught in a herring fishing net. Instead of slowing sinking to the sea floor, the whale’s body was washed up on a beach where it was salvaged by a skeleton preservation company. Thirteen years later, using garbage salvaged from the ocean, Yukon artist Joyce Majiski began working on a sculpture of that juvenile whale’s skeleton for her “Song of the Whale” exhibit.
Joyce is a mesmerizing artist. She is a flurry of creativity interrupted by moments of great stillness and contemplation. She’s an environmentalist who often collaborates with others and whose work addresses nature and the human impact on it.
“Whalefall” follows Joyce as she carves an exact replica of the whale—bone by bone—using garbage collected from the ocean. An homage to the whale, Majiski’s sculpture is a stark reminder of how human pollutants affect the nature world.
Release date: January 2022
Time: 9:17
Explore Joyce’s artwork.
Officially selected for:
- Available Light Film Festival, Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada, February 2022
- Dawson City International Short Film Festival, Dawson City, Yukon, Canada, March 2022
- Short Circuit Pacific Rim Short Film Festival, Victoria, BC, Canada, May 2022
- Women Over Fifty Film Festival, Lewes, England, UK, September 2022
- St. John’s Women’s International Film Festival, St., John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, October 2022
- SeeMôr Film Festival, Holyhead, Wales, UK, October 2022 (finalist)
- The 20%: Feminist Filmmakers Festival, New Orleans, USA, April 2023 (finalist)
Title: Inspiration in Nature
Genre: short documentary
Dee Bailey created 2D paintings of nature using modelling clay as her medium. Inspiration in Nature explores what inspired Dee when she was the artist in residence in Tombstone Territorial Park in 2019 where she gained a deeper understanding of why she made art about nature.
Dee Bailey was reported missing on January 20, 2022, and presumed dead after a Yukon Supreme Court decision in January 2025.
Explore Dee’s artwork.
Released: January 2021
Time: 4 minutes 38 seconds
Officially selected for:
- Master of Art Film Festival, Sofia, Bulgaria, April 14, 2021
- OrtometraggiFilmFestival, Turin, Italy, September 9, 2021
- Raleigh Film & Art Festival, Raleigh, United States of America, October 9, 2021 (awarded Best Short)
- Arte Non Stop Festival/BA 2021 International Film and Art Festival, Buenos Aires, Argentina, October 27, 2021 (awarded Best Short)
- Biophilia International Film Festival, Mexico City, Mexico, November 14, 2021
- Nature and Culture International Poetry Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark, November 21, 2021