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The Island

Runtime:
6 min.
Year of Production:
2009
Country:
Kanada
Director:
Cast:
Trevor Anderson
Production Company:
January Films
Berlinale Section:
Shorts
Berlinale Category:
Essay Film

THE ISLAND tries to cross the mechanism of homophobia with a big smile. The homosexual filmmaker has received ”fan mail“: Why don´t all the homosexual people leave society and move to an island to infect each other with AIDS. Lost in thought the director wanders through the Canadian snow desert and creates a possible setting for such an island. An animated, essayistic narrative film.

At ”Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Film Festival“ in Toronto Trevor Anderson was characterised as an emerging Canadian filmmaker working with passion, humour, a strong sense of social justice and a personal point of view.

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BIOGRAFIE Trevor Anderson

Trevor Anderson is a director, writer, and actor. His films include Docking (Sundance '19); The Little Deputy (Sundance '15, SXSW '15); The Man That Got Away (D.A.A.D. Short Film Prize, Berlinale '12, SXSW '12); The High Level Bridge (Sundance '11, SXSW '11); The Island (Berlinale '09, Best Short Film at Pink Apple Zurich '09), and Rock Pockets (Lindalee Tracey Award, Hot Docs '07).

- IMDb Mini Biography By: Trevor Anderson

FILMOGRAFIE Trevor Anderson (selection)

2019 The Twentieth Century  2012 The Man that Got Away  2011/2012 Teddy Kurzfilmrolle 2012  2009 The Island 


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