Private Project

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.

  • Sara Page
    Director
  • Sara Page
    Writer
  • Sara Page
    Producer
  • Alexander Baehr
    Producer
  • Samantha Bau
    Key Cast
    "Victoria Demers "The Supermom""
  • Hannah Memory Meyers
    Key Cast
    "Cora Demers "The Daughter""
  • David Brenneman
    Key Cast
    "Gary Hades "The Super Villain""
  • Rob Jacobsen
    Key Cast
    "Larry Flamengo "The Head Waiter""
  • Project Type:
    Animation, Short, Student
  • Genres:
    comedy, dark comedy, superhero, action, surreal, fantasy
  • Runtime:
    11 minutes 42 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    May 31, 2020
  • Production Budget:
    4,980 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Canada
  • Country of Filming:
    Canada
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    RED, 16mm B&W
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Black & White and Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    Yes - Emily Carr University of Art & Design
  • Indie Short Fest
    Los 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 Awards
    Los 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 Festival
    Fargo, North Dakota
    United States
    February 27, 2021
    Official Selection
  • Hollywood Blood Horror Festival
    Los Angeles
    United States
    Official Selection, Best Fantasy Film, Best Hair and Makeup
  • Hamilton Film Festival
    Hamilton
    Canada
    November 14, 2020
    Ontario Premiere
    Official Selection
  • IndieX Film Fest
    Los 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 Fest
    New York
    United States
    December 4, 2020
    Honorable Mention (Student Film Category), Official Selection
  • Chicago Indie Film Awards
    Chicago
    United States
    Finalist
  • Toronto Film Magazine
    Toronto
    Canada
    Award Winner: Best Student Short Film
  • Montreal Independent Film Festival
    Montreal
    Canada
    Official Selection
  • Canada Shorts
    Saint John
    Canada
    Award of Excellence
  • New Wave Short Film Festival
    Munich
    Germany
    Best Student Film
  • Seoul International Short Film Festival
    Seoul
    Korea, Republic of
    Official Selection
Director Biography - Sara Page

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.

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Director Statement

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.