Ashley McKenzie

Rhonda's Party

Ashley McKenzie

Marguerite McNeil, Karine Vanasse

Rhonda, a reclusive nursing home resident with a tough exterior, has spent months planning her best friend's 100th birthday party, The band is booked, the cake is ordered, and everyone is invited. But when her friend dies on the eve of the celebration, a young nurse must deliver the crushing news, and Rhonda is forced to overcome her loneliness and decide whether or not the party should go on.

Martha Brook Falls

Ashley McKenzie

In a northern valley of Cape Breton, a camera is relinquished into a remote riverbed. It travels underwater and is enveloped by current, cascading toward an 80-foot waterfall. Water pulses over its surface, forming a mass of microscopic lenses that concentrate the world around; an environment fluidly impressing its mark. In between this rush downstream and a final repose, the precipice of Martha Brook Falls is breached.

Werewolf

Ashley McKenzie

Andrew Gillis, Bhreagh MacNeil

Blaise and Nessa are outcast methadone users in their small town. Each day they push a rusty lawnmower door-to-door begging to cut grass. Nessa plots an escape, while Blaise lingers closer to collapse. Tethered to one another, their getaway dreams are kept on a suffocatingly short leash.

Stray

Ashley McKenzie

Brooklyn Campbell, Susan Kent

A meek nine-year old girl struggles to find an object for her tenderness inside the confines of a hard-nosed home environment and post-industrial town.

When You Sleep

Ashley McKenzie

Winston De Giobbi, Eve Harlow

Two unstable teens live together in a slum apartment. When, in a poetic move, rats start invading their home, they realize that they have to deal with an unspoken matter that is threatening to ruin their relationship.

4 Quarters

Ashley McKenzie

Sofia Banzhaf, Andrew Gillis

An overworked student finds his life thrown into chaos when he gets involved with a young drug addict.