The Shoe Project Shorts Synopsis
The Shoe Project Shorts is a compilation film with the first five short films produced by its participants. The Shoe Project recruits immigrant and refugee women to work with experienced writers to write stories of their arrival in and adaptation to Canada through a pair of shoes.
The short films are based on the shoe stories the five women participants wrote earlier. In this documentary, the five short films are each time briefly introduced by the filmmaker with clips we gathered during our online public screening on June 27th, 2021 (Canada’s Multicultural Day).
Producer: Katherine Govier
Director: Maya Qabbani, Umut Duygu Uzunel, Elif Derin, Elisabeth Meneses Del Castillo and Simten Osken.
Writer: Maya Qabbani, Umut Duygu Uzunel, Elif Derin, Elisabeth Meneses Del Castillo and Simten Osken.
Editor: Irene Zhen.
About the FIlmmaker
Gerda Cammaer is a filmmaker, film scholar, film curator, and director of The Shoe Project Shorts. She is an Associate Professor in the School of Image Arts at Ryerson University in Toronto (Canada), specializing in experimental and documentary films.
Her creative work centers around forgotten and overlooked histories in film, women in film, ecology, and recent developments in smartphone filmmaking and microcinema.
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