Revenge of the Supermom
A disenchanted daughter must decide if she will embrace her destiny when her neglectful superhero mom discovers a villain in their garbage.
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Sara PageDirector
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Sara PageWriter
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Sara PageProducer
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Alexander BaehrProducer
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Samantha BauKey Cast"Victoria Demers "The Supermom""
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Hannah Memory MeyersKey Cast"Cora Demers "The Daughter""
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David BrennemanKey Cast"Gary Hades "The Super Villain""
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Rob JacobsenKey Cast"Larry Flamengo "The Head Waiter""
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Project Type:Animation, Short, Student
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Genres:comedy, dark comedy, superhero, action, surreal, fantasy
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Runtime:11 minutes 42 seconds
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Completion Date:May 31, 2020
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Production Budget:4,980 USD
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Country of Origin:Canada
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Country of Filming:Canada
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Language:English
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Shooting Format:RED, 16mm B&W
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Aspect Ratio:16:9
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Film Color:Black & White and Color
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First-time Filmmaker:Yes
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Student Project:Yes - Emily Carr University of Art & Design
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Indie Short FestLos Angeles
United States
Official Selection, Best Student Fantasy Film, Best Hair and Makeup, Outstanding Achievement: Student Female Director, Outstanding Achievement: Production Design, Award Nominee & Finalist: VFX -
Independent Shorts AwardsLos Angeles
United States
Official Selection, Platinum Award: Best Fantasy Film, Platinum Award: Best Student Female Director, Platinum Award: Best VFX, Silver Award: Best Editing, Silver Award: Best Production Design -
Fargo Fantastic Film FestivalFargo, North Dakota
United States
February 27, 2021
Official Selection -
Hollywood Blood Horror FestivalLos Angeles
United States
Official Selection, Best Fantasy Film, Best Hair and Makeup -
Hamilton Film FestivalHamilton
Canada
November 14, 2020
Ontario Premiere
Official Selection -
IndieX Film FestLos Angeles
United States
Award Winner: Best Female Student Director, Outstanding Achievement: Fantasy Film, Outstanding Achievement: Makeup and Hairstyling, Outstanding Achievement: Set Design, Nominee & Award Finalist: VFX, Official Selection -
New York Tri-State International Film FestNew York
United States
December 4, 2020
Honorable Mention (Student Film Category), Official Selection -
Chicago Indie Film AwardsChicago
United States
Finalist -
Toronto Film MagazineToronto
Canada
Award Winner: Best Student Short Film -
Montreal Independent Film FestivalMontreal
Canada
Official Selection -
Canada ShortsSaint John
Canada
Award of Excellence -
New Wave Short Film FestivalMunich
Germany
Best Student Film -
Seoul International Short Film FestivalSeoul
Korea, Republic of
Official Selection
Sara Page is a filmmaker and musician based in Vancouver, Canada. She has an absurd sense of humor, a fascination with art history, and is terrified of dark closets. Sara is passionate to tell stories set in Canadian landscapes that subvert stereotypes, deal with moral gray areas of society, and portray socially isolated characters. Sara has a Bachelor of Media Arts from Emily Carr University of Art and Design, and a Bachelor of Music from the University of Victoria, with double majors in music composition and flute performance, with additional studies in creative writing. Sara has also worked in the floral industry as a designer since 2008. Creating florals for film sets and composing music for film is how she became inspired to pursue a career as a media artist, and combine all her talents through the art of filmmaking. Sara has plans for writing and directing many more stories incorporating her dark sense of humour, disturbing moral dilemmas, and fantastical themes, many scored with her own compositions.
Experimenting with stereotypes is what drives my filmmaking, and mixing non-traditional plots with fantastical elements and abstractions is integral to my story telling style. I am passionate to write about characters who are socially isolated or different, subvert stereotypes, or battle with moral dilemmas - dilemmas they address the ideologies we take for granted in our society that sometimes lead to more harm than good.
I use my films to focus on themes of gender identity and to explore the pressures on women to be mothers, how or why unspoken worth in society is often assessed based on whether or not one wants to bear children. Many of my characters also explore various forms of gender fluidity - women portraying stereotypically masculine traits, or men portraying female traits or dressing in a more suggestively-feminine style. I aim to promote a dialogue surrounding interpretations of clothing in particular, and how clothing psychologically trains us to conform to gender stereotypes, and what we can learn by thinking outside the garment boxes that we sometimes take for granted.
I am also dedicated to exploring the “bad guys.” From a young age my favourite characters in Disney films were always the evil witches, and this is true still today. I am fascinated with exploring villains as protagonists, but not in a way that necessarily makes them “good,” even from their own point of view. True to human nature, I believe that we can commit bad acts, know them to be bad, keep committing them, and maybe even enjoy the act. I explore this moral content through my film characters, as it is generally a part of our natures we suppress - but a part that we all possess.
"Revenge of the Supermom" features a bit of the villain in every character - nobody is a true hero, but everyone is undeniably human.