Now, I Am A Bear: Supporting Web-Links

The following links are examples of film projects that I ( Jason Filiatrault) have been involved with as a writer and/or director. I’ve tried to keep it brief and have excluded any television or sketch work.

LINK ONE: INSERT FUTURE LINK HERE

This is the complete short film version of “Now, I Am A Bear.” The short was written so that it could stand alone, so while it has the same premise as the feature, the storyline and characters differ in some distinct ways.

LINK TWO: https://vimeo.com/feelcanadian/enttrailer

This is the trailer for my feature film, “Entanglement” (directed by Jason James). It gives a decent sense of my weird tone and it’s shorter than watching the whole movie. Entanglement won the 2018 Writers Guild of Canada Award for Best Screenplay.

LINK THREE: https://vimeo.com/feelcanadian/entswimdate

This is a clip from “Entanglement.” The film is about magic-realist rom-com about a man who discovers that his parents nearly adopted a girl before he was born but then gave her back, prompting him to track down the woman to find out if having a sister would have made his life better.

LINK FOUR: https://vimeo.com/feelcanadian/threebed

This is a short film called “Three In A Bed” which I wrote and directed in 2014. It is an absurd comedy with no real plot outside of two people annoying a third. The project was initially conceived as a “stream-of-consciousness” film, in which I wrote the script in one single session and then filmed the result with no rewriting. The project screened at the Calgary Underground Film Festival in 2014.

(Content warning for insensitive talk around eating disorders.)

LINK FIVE: https://vimeo.com/feelcanadian/threecar

This film was a “sequel” of sorts to “Three In A Bed” cleverly titled, “Three In A Car.”

It was made with the same cast and under the same limitations as the first; ie written in one session and then never rewritten. This film was screened at the Calgary Underground Film Festival in 2015, and for some reason on Air Canada planes in 2015 and 2016 as part of a Canadian Short Film package.

I made these films with the goal of seeing just how well my pure instinctive writing would translate to a short film and flawed as they may be, they still make me laugh.