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Sisters

Created with a collage of dramatic and documentary styles, we meet two sisters. Following their conflicts during their Mother's decline and death, their journeys through life diverge, creating a history of estrangement. Dipping into each sister's life, setbacks and triumphs, SISTERS is a rich fabric of life.

The story — and the production — spans ten years. Taking footage from the 2013 film, ENDINGS, with the same actors in the same roles, SISTERS is an emotional montage about life and the passage of time.

  • JIm McQuaid
    Director
    https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2154854
  • Jim McQuaid
    Writer
    https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2154854
  • Jim McQuaid
    Producer
    https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2154854
  • Tracey Reynolds
    Key Cast
    "SHERRI"
    https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4480906
  • Susannah Hough
    Key Cast
    "CONNIE"
    https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3999758
  • Eric Morales
    Key Cast
    "MATT"
    https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2512356
  • Jay Chachula
    Key Cast
    "JACK"
    https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0160969
  • Riley Hough
    Key Cast
    "MAX"
    https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3999594
  • Jack Allan
    Cinematographer
    https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6933531
  • James (Jay) Manley
    MUSIC
    https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3296540
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Runtime:
    12 minutes 10 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    March 29, 2024
  • Production Budget:
    1,100 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    mixed digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    2.35
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
  • Toyko
    Japan
    February 5, 2024
  • Longleaf Film Festival
    Raleigh, NC
    United States
    May 4, 2024
    North American Premiere
    Official selection
  • The Indie Gathering
    Cleveland, Ohio
    United States
    August 10, 2024
    Regional
Director Biography - JIm McQuaid

Jim McQuaid is a filmmaker and writer living in Durham, NC.

Creating short films since 1999, all of his films deal with how love survives the conflicts we create. How a parent's love survives a child growing up, how the memory of love can support or plague us.

McQuaid made films in high school, taught design and photography in college art departments, worked in high technology marketing and finally came back to film when miniDV appeared.

In addition to writing and directing, he has DPed films of all kinds for other filmmakers, from simple personal stories to One Last Sunset Redux, a feature-length zombie movie. He has also worked as AD on a variety of longer projects. McQuaid produces performance, training and interview videos for commercial clients to support his filmmaking habit.

An active member of the filmmaking community in the Raleigh-Durham region of North Carolina, he co-moderates a screenwriting group, and is always ready to help on set, read a script or do lunch.

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Director Statement

Early in 2022, as I searched for the next story, I realized that virtually every actor in my 2013 film, ENDINGS, was still in the area and active in stage and film. I began to think about how the story of the two sisters in ENDINGS (whose Mother dies) addresses conflicts. Then I realized that the story was how the differences in the experience and lifestyles of two sisters plays out in their estrangement over the 10 years after the death of their Mother.

Combining HD footage from the 2013 film, shot on the then workhorse Canon 5D MII, with UHD footage from my Blackmagic camera, rendered in a 2K format, the film spans 10 years in the lives of the characters and the cast and crew.

The film was finished on December 21, 2023.