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Information Overload!!!

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film still of ROTTIG by Liam Minnebo

Information Overload!!! featuring FORM Commissioned Artists’ World Premieres

Presented with Festival Supporter SFU Live

With Guest Introduction by Carmen Papalia

Sunday November 8 | 7:00-8:00 PM | Doors: 6:30 PM 

Location: SFU - Djavad Mowafaghian Theatre, 3rd floor

Commissioning Fund Production Partners: Cineworks, VIVO Media Arts Centre, Charles Street Video, PRIM, Main Film

An abundance of information exists in the world. We are drifting in a sea of news, pop culture, and social media trends. Seeing image after image can feel absurd, hilarious, or draining. What do we do when we’re oversaturated with information? How does it make you feel? Do you choose to embrace the chaos? Do you resist it? 

Information Overload!!! is a collection of cinematic responses to the ways that information consumes us from every angle. Artists ponder the existential, wondering how traditions, morality, and individual expressions are diluted by compounding trends and discourses. Themes of transformation change the pace as identities fragment and unravel. These films offer more curiosities than definitive answers—calling on us to question the normative ways we process information in its entirety.

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2026 Films
a moment of reverence
a moment of reverence

Olivia West Alvarez (England) EMERGING
Canadian Premiere
Duration: 4:19

a moment of reverence invites us to reconsider how we experience art through the lens of accessibility. In a single, unbroken shot, a blind woman listens to a live dance performance unfolding out of frame, guided by poetic audio description and sound. As the choreography is translated through language, her response becomes the focus, shifting attention away from spectacle and toward perception. The film challenges the assumption that dance belongs to the eye, and instead frames it as a multisensory experience, shaped as much by listening and imagination as by sight.

contributor: Jasmine Thien
director, producer & cinematographer: Olivia West Álvarez
editor: Rafael Luis Fernando
composer: Katrina Rose
sound designer: Vicente Molder
colourist: Diyar Akar
performance by: Rachel Coleman
audio description written by: Caroline Burn & Olivia West Álvarez
audio description voiced by: Katrina Rose

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Estkesép: Moving Fast and Almost Out of Sight
Estkesép: Moving Fast and Almost Out of Sight

Naomi Watkins (Canada) EMERGING
FORM 2026 Commissioned Artist
World Premiere
Duration: 8:00

Estkesép: Moving Fast and Almost Out of Sight is a creative non-fiction short directed by Naomi Watkins that considers the complexities of beginning again through a fragmented introspection on returning to land, water, and Secwépemc language. Shot between three locations, the film traces a journey of discovering an ancestral compass across Turtle Island, looking toward the birds and listening for their songs while reflecting on their relationships to movement, intuition, memory, and what it means to belong.

Directed, Written, Filmed, and Edited by Naomi Watkins 

Warm thank yous to Erin Lum and danielle Mackenzie Long for reaching out and trusting me with making this film; my partner, Devin Chambers, for their relentless support; Niya Abdullahi, Whess Harman, and Struts Gallery for their generous guidance; and my mom for an amazing trip and getting to grow a little closer throughout this whole shoot.

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0.3mL
0.3mL

Mara Dupas (Canada) YOUTH
FORM 2026 Commissioned Artist
World Premiere
Duration: 5:00
Content Warning: Harsh language, mention of sexual themes related to lived experiences of misogyny.

0.3mL engages with movement, music, and poetry as sites of transformation where the self is constantly fluctuating, defended, or reshaped. This film draws inspiration from lived experiences, video archives, and love of rap music from the perspective of a mysterious being seeking the language of his/their liberation, somewhere between imitation, memories, and fiction. By intersecting lyrics, images, and sound, it explores transness and metamorphosis not as linear transitions, but as unstable, ongoing negotiations between environment, politics, body, voice, and desire. 

Artistic Director: Mara Dupas
Director and cinematographer: Ornella Salnot
Music composer and sound designer: Maître Engone Endong
Choreography, performance, lyrics, voice: Mara Dupas

Special thank you to: Familles Daniel / Dupas and Sara Kurz-Martin

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Get Dressed!
Get Dressed!

Bona Lee (Canada) YOUTH
FORM 2026 Commissioned Artist
World Premiere
Duration: 5:00

In a world that constantly produces emerging yet clashing styles across endless niches, microtrends, and aesthetics, one starts to question whether these serve as inspiration for curating an original style or instead become an incoherent mixture far from one’s authenticity. In Get Dressed!, Mia attempts to curate the perfect outfit for an unknown event she gets invited to. With endless options and pressure to impress her friend Jess, she ends up in a frenzy and perhaps not the best dressed.

Director/Writer/Producer: Bona Lee
Cast: Reem Celine & Athena Tran 
Cinematographer: Aaron De Leon
3D Animation Artist: Joseph Mukoro
Video Editors: Bona Lee, Aaron De Leon, Joseph Mukoro, & Christina Tam
Makeup Artist: Keara Bright

Special thanks to Erin Lum, danielle Mackenzie Long, Sophia Wolfe, and Yazid for their guidance in making this film.

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PARAMIN
PARAMIN

Trey Denzyl (Canada) YOUTH
FORM 2026 Commissioned Artist
World Premiere
Duration: 6:00 
Content Warning: Minor strobe lighting

PARAMIN is an experimental visual work exploring identity, tradition, and transformation in an age of information overload. Drawing from Trinidadian cultural memory, the film considers how traditions can become distorted, diluted, and reinterpreted through the constant circulation of images and media. The body becomes a site of conflict between inherited identity and an increasingly saturated digital world. Through surreal imagery, movement, ritual, and transformation, figures embody the tension between holding onto what was passed down and confronting what has been reshaped. PARAMIN exists between dance, fashion, and fine-art cinema: a meditation on cultural memory, media saturation, and the search for authenticity.

Director & Producer: Trey Denzyl
Talent: Trey Denzyl & Aiden Hill
Cinematographer & Editor: Zayden Phan
Music Composers: Hamraj Sidhu & Trey Denzyl
Makeup Artist: Chelsea Brennan
Set Design: Trey Denzyl & Terron Hill

Very special thank you to the lovely folks at Cineworks!

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ROTTIG
ROTTIG

Liam Minnebo (Netherlands) EMERGING
Canadian Premiere
Duration: 17:33
Content Warning: Contains flashing lights

A young woman seeks calmness in the privacy of her home. Instead, she is pulled into a cascade of conflicting perspectives on environmental pollution. Thrifters, activists, and corporate figures flood the room. Surrounded and unable to retreat, she is forced to move through the noise, guilt, and contradiction that shape contemporary environmental discourse.

Directed by Liam Minnebo*
Written by Liam Minnebo & Klaske Duin
Director of photography: Yoel Matan*
Choreographed by Nikki Duin*
Original music by Thom Holt*

Executive producer: Moreno Koning
Produced by Liam Minnebo
1st assistant director: Sven Limonard*
2nd assistant director: Klaske Duin*
Acting coach: Megan Minnebo
Production support:
Esmee Brouwer
Sanne Haak
Emma van Os
Wilco Minnebo
Catering: Lucia Sugiarti & Bonny Supriyanti
Stunt coordinator: Edward van Tongeren

1st AC: Samuel Bommezijn
2nd AC: Jane van Luinen
3rd AC: Rick de Jager
Gaffer: Stan Veldt
Best boy: Eli Moran Odicio
Art director: Jane van Luinen
Set dresser: Anne Alberti
Make-up: Joy Voorneman
Make-up assistant: Leah Chang
Stylist: Klaske Duin

Editor: Liam Minnebo
Sound design: Onne Roncken & Liam Minnebo
Foley: Liam Minnebo & Klaske Duin
Musical sound effects: Thom Holt
Re-recording mixer: Onne Roncken
Grading: Thijs Kern
Visual effects: Liam Minnebo
Graphic design:
Liam Minnebo
Roos Haanstra
Morris Groot

Storyboard artist: Roos Haanstra
BTS: Rick de Jager

Talent:
Nikki Duin

Segara Lorber
Casey Pronk
Beau Dobbe
Sofie Schouten
Mauri Kierindoongo

Mea-Ly Verhoef
Eva Ruhulessin
Tirza Winkelman
Marc Daniel Zeldenthuis
Yun Kan

Tulum Stainoff
Nikki van Rijswijk
Jada Lynn van Mildert
Lulu Verstegen
Krijn Heijnen
Naomi Osinga
Isabelle Bouweir
Stavali Portegijs
Eden Manga-Nkoy

Voice-over: Moya Gorodecky and Klaske Duin

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Earlier Event: November 8
Panel: Insight into the Artistic Process