DELUGE

2025 Toronto. A complicated friendship between two women, who spend one summer afternoon at the beach in the face of imminent changes and climate threats.

  • Grace Wang
    Director
  • Grace Wang
    Writer
  • Rimah Jabr
    Writer
  • Grace Wang
    Producer
  • Ahlam Hassan
    Producer
  • Kiana Woo
    Key Cast
    "Y"
  • Malayka
    Key Cast
    "Vivian"
  • Eliza Moore
    Key Cast
    "Woman on beach"
  • Caiden Mahdi
    Key Cast
    "Little boy"
  • Colette Mahdi
    Key Cast
    "Little girl"
  • Samir Mahdi
    Key Cast
    "Father of Kids"
  • Benjamin Wong
    Cinematographer
  • Adrien Yiptong
    Editor
  • Ogo Eze
    Location sound
  • Lauren Ishak
    Wardrobe/Production Design
  • David Mesiha
    Music and Sound Design / Mix
  • Benjamin Wong
    Colourist
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Genres:
    Drama
  • Runtime:
    8 minutes 37 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    March 3, 2023
  • Production Budget:
    7,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Canada
  • Country of Filming:
    Canada
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Shorts On Tap
    London
    United Kingdom
    May 30, 2023
    World premiere
    Official Selection
  • Wales International Film Festival
    Swansea
    United Kingdom
    September 14, 2023
    Official Selection, Finalist in Best Short Film competition
  • Macau International Short Film Festival
    Macau
    China
    December 9, 2023
    Asia premiere
    Official Selection, in competition for Best Short Fiction and Best Short Film
Director Biography - Grace Wang

Grace Wang is a self-taught filmmaker and visual artist who works in video, photography, text, and sound. Focusing primarily on analog processes, her visual practice ranges from street photography to landscape, documentary to narrative, experimental processes to multi-medias. Grace is interested in exploring our connection to nature, time, memory, and the complexity of being human.

Grace’s short films have exhibited at film festivals across North America/Europe/Asia, galleries, Air Canada, CBC and Comcast USA. Her previous short (UN)CERTAINTY premiered at 2019 Catacumba Film Festival, screened in competition at the 2019 Izmir International Short Film Festival, 2019 Macau International Short Film Festival (Best Fiction finalist), 2020 Queens World Film Festival and 2020 Bali International Short Film Festival (Best Experimental Short finalist).

A member of Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography, Grace's first two 35mm series, HALF DARK and MEMORY FOAM, were exhibited respectively at Gallery 44 and Gallery 1313. Her latest series "Trace" was exhibited in a two-person show in summer 2022 and presented as a solo exhibition in the 2023 Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival.

Grace is an alumnus of 2013 Toronto International Film Festival Filmmaker Lab, 2016 CBC Development Workshop for Diverse Creators, 2018 Reykjavik International Film Festival Talent Lab and 2022 Cinefam Limitless Program. Her work has been supported by National Film Board of Canada, Ontario Arts Council, and the Canada Council for the Arts. She is currently working on a new body of visual art and film projects. DELUGE is her latest film.

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