B Side

He wants to fall. She wants to be the reason.

Max finds Dan at the end and offers the final push. What follows isn’t a rescue — it’s a reckoning. A synth-pop descent into free will, fatalism, and the cost of being witnessed.

  • Caleigh Le Grand
    Director
  • Caleigh Le Grand
    Writer
  • Michael Lipka
    Writer
  • Adam Langton
    Writer
  • Caleigh Le Grand
    Producer
  • Laura Tremblay
    Producer
    Motherly, Home Free
  • Karen Scobie
    Producer
    Good Night, Sleep Tight
  • Caleigh Le Grand
    Key Cast
    "Max"
    The Heretics, Murdoch Mysteries, Broken Mile
  • Michael Lipka
    Key Cast
    "Dan"
    Girl, Under the Banner of Heaven
  • Davey Oberlin
    Music
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Genres:
    Neo-Noir, Psychological Thriller, Dark Drama, Existential Drama, Intimate Suspense
  • Runtime:
    11 minutes 27 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    April 7, 2025
  • Production Budget:
    10,000 CAD
  • Country of Origin:
    Canada
  • Country of Filming:
    Canada
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    1.85:1
  • Film Color:
    Black & White and Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Caleigh Le Grand

Caleigh Le Grand is a Toronto-based filmmaker, performer, and photographer whose work lives at the intersection of tension and tenderness. With roots in live performance, horror, comedy, and commercial photography, she brings a multidisciplinary lens to stories about identity, mortality, and the quiet collisions between strangers. Her screen credits span cult horror films, ensemble comedy series, and award-winning short-form media. She’s the creator and host of We’re (Totally) Not OK, a podcast that explores the intersection of mental health and media culture.

Caleigh’s filmmaking is shaped by her background in psychology and journalism, her obsession with liminal spaces, and her relentless curiosity about what drives people to the edge — emotionally, philosophically, and sometimes literally. B Side marks her directorial debut: a darkly lyrical two-hander set on a Toronto bridge in the middle of winter. She is currently developing a neo-noir psychological thriller feature and a dark sci-fi political action series.

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Director Statement

I made B Side to explore the space between surrender and control—the raw, magnetic tension of meeting someone at your lowest and not knowing who’s holding the power.

The film began as a question: what happens when someone doesn’t try to stop you from falling… but offers to be the reason you do?

Set entirely on a bridge suspended over the city, B Side is stripped down, intimate, and eerie in its stillness. I wanted it to feel like a dream teetering into a nightmare—or a connection so electric it shocks both people into questioning whether it’s real.

Tonally, the film lives between psychological thriller and lyrical noir. I’m drawn to characters who speak with precision and deflect with humour — people who crave vulnerability but fear the cost of it. I wanted to write two such characters and trap them in a moment they can’t walk away from.

If Max is the femme fatale, she is so in the form of a memory or an ideal or a mirror of the protagonist’s own brokenness. Dan — our protagonist — isn’t drawn to her like a man to danger, but like a wound to its echo; haunted not by who she is, but by what she reflects back: the unbearable intimacy of being seen.

This is a story about the pull to be seen, even at your worst. It’s about power, permission, mercy, and the reckoning that can unfold when you offer someone exactly what they say they want.