Private Project

I've Heard a Siren Calling

Nev is a young Trans woman in the early stages of her transition. In the small fishing town where she lives, she grapples with navigating isolation and managing her fears of reintegrating back into the world she loves...being on the water, in the waves... surfing.

  • Dylan Mitro
    Director
    Ripples, Bananas Stand Up Straight, That Funeral Glow.
  • Nev Robinson
    Key Cast
    "Trans Surfer"
  • Scott Harwood
    Composer / Sound Designer
    CRABBED, An Ant in the Mouth a Furnace, Celestial Queer: The Life, Work, and Wonder of James MacSwain, PACHO,
  • Dylan Mitro
    Producer
    Ripples, Bananas Stand Up Straight, That Funeral Glow.
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Genres:
    Lgbtq+, Trans Film, Surfing
  • Runtime:
    12 minutes 3 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    September 30, 2024
  • Production Budget:
    12,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Canada
  • Country of Filming:
    Canada
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16;9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
Director Biography - Dylan Mitro

Dylan Mitro is an Independent Canadian Filmmaker who's work blends the “rawness” of Documentary style filmmaking with their colourful fantasies influenced by their Queerness and nostalgia. Using these principles to shape and unify Dylan’s signature storytelling style.

Dylan’s short film “Ripples”(2022) premiered at the Toronto Inside Out Film Festival and played at San Francisco's Frameline46 and BFI Flare as well as many others internationally.

Dylan's latest short "I Heard a Siren Calling" has been supported by Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council. They recently were apart of the first cohort of the Spindle Film Foundation Mentorship program as well as the Banff Mountain Film Festival Adventure Filmmaking fellowship.

They are currently living in Berlin as the first recipient of the Martha Cooper Scholarship for their LGBTQ+ Documentary research.

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Director Statement

"I've Heard a Siren Calling" was born out of my experience of being Queer and gender non-conforming amongst the Great Lake Surfing community here in Ontario. It became a poetic undertaking of the trails of isolation and rebirth. When Nev and I started working together on this film she was starting HRT with her early stage of Transition and the film evolved into a story of rebirth with water being a strong motif for Nev's journey.