RAPE CARD
A cautionary tale set in a chilling dystopian future where rape is legal. Frances tries to control her fate by planning her own assault, and targets a young boy who just got his rape card.
directed by MADELEINE SIMS-FEWER
Madeleine Sims-Fewer was born in Little Britain, Ontario, and moved as a child with her family to Bath, England. She studied acting at Drama Centre London, and is passionate about embodying contradictory characters that challenge our ideas of women. In 2015 she took part in TIFF Talent Lab, where she met her creative partner, Dusty Mancinelli. She starred in and co-directed their first short film, Slap Happy (17), which premiered at BFI London and played VIFF and Slamdance, among other festivals. Woman in Stall (18) won the Grand Jury Prize at Slamdance and a Jury Award at Austin. Her most recent short, Chubby (19), premiered at Telluride and won the Silver Dragon for Best director at Krakow. Violation (20) is Madeleine's first feature film. She is an alumni of Berlinale Talents and will remain a dedicated Meisner practitioner, always.
directed by NATHAN HUGHES-BERRY
Nathan is a UK born Toronto based independent filmmaker focused on work that deals with anxiety, isolation and fraught relationships. His short film The Substitute won him a Kodak Student Scholarship and screened at over fifty film festivals worldwide (Montreal World, Dresden, Brno 16). His follow up short Rape Card was screened at Landshuter and Montreal World and was funded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council and Shorts TV.
He is an alumni of Berlinale Talents and completed a masters degree in screenwriting at Central Saint Martins and in film production at York University. Most recently his two experimental films Where do Ideas Come from? and Why are you showing me this? were selected for Stuttgarter Filmwinter Festival for Expanded Media.
CREDITS
Cast - Madeleine Sims-Fewer, Rafferty Blumberg, Steven McCarthy
Writer/Directors - Madeleine Sims-Fewer, Nathan Hughes-Berry
Producer - Coral Aiken
Exec Producers - Daniel Bekerman, Eva Sigurdardottir
Associate Producer - Emma Wardle
Director of Photography - Greg Biskup
Editor - Nathan Hughes-Berry
Production Designer - Karis Malszecki
Costume Designer - Hannah Puley
Original Score - Rob Teehan
DISTRIBUTION / SALES
Shorts TV
FESTIVALS
2018 Landshuter Kurzfilmfestival
2018 Montreal World Film Festival
2018 Landshuter Kurzfilmfestival Germany (World Premiere)
2018 Mecal Pro International Short Film Festival, Spain
2018 Telefilm Not Short on Talent, Cannes Market Screening
2018 Montreal World Film Festival, Student Section, Canada (North American Premiere)
2018 Rendezvous with Madness Festival, Canada
2018 Underwire Film Festival, UK
2018 Razor Reel Flanders Film Festival, Belgium
2018 Nitehawk Cinema Shorts Festival, NYC (US Premiere)