Undressing Them

Tori, anxious about a house party, spirals into a gender crisis. A mysterious figure, Boy, forces her to confront her identity, leading to a journey from despair to self-acceptance.

  • Jessica Mackie Hunter
    Writer
  • Jessica Mackie Hunter
    Director
  • Blake H. Phillips
    Producer
  • Shannon Darby-Jones
    Executive Producer
  • Pablo Balboa
    Director of Photography
  • Olivia Sgambelluri
    Key Cast
    "Tori"
  • Feura
    Key Cast
    "Boy/Thomas"
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Genres:
    Drama
  • Runtime:
    11 minutes 4 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    February 6, 2026
  • Production Budget:
    2,250 CAD
  • Country of Origin:
    Canada
  • Country of Filming:
    Canada
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    4:3
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Jessica Mackie Hunter

Jessica Mackie Hunter is a queer Czech/British writer and director based in Toronto. Her first two short films, Rabbit and Juices, are currently on the festival circuit, with her work screening at BIFA and BAFTA-qualifying festivals. She is in post-production on her next two shorts, Pineapples and Apples. Altogether, she has produced six films, including a documentary and a children’s animation project.

In 2023, her short film script Fires Elsewhere was selected for the Messy Collective’s Overexposed: Live Read event and the International ELBE DOCK Film Festival’s Film Inn Story Editing Workshop. She is an alumna of the Torino Film Lab Extended – Film 2024 and the Boosting Impact Emerging Writers Programme. In 2025, she was shortlisted for the Česká Leonarda Fund and was a finalist at the Toronto Film Plug Fund.

Focusing on historically marginalised groups, Jessica’s films explore community, identity, escapism, and disobedience through the lens of LGBTQIA+ folk, neurodivergence, and immigrant experience.

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Director Statement

As someone who has been exploring their own gender identity, I find that there aren’t many stories about the slow process of realisation you might be trans or non-binary, so I wanted to write a story about the beginning inclinations of such a feeling. The idea that transgender people owe the world absolutism, and must express their identity confidently and immediately, otherwise be charged with concealing the truth, is harmful and doesn’t give enough space for private self-exploration. Tori lives with the same anxieties I experience daily, where deciding what to wear and how you’ll be perceived by your choices makes you freeze up in horror, in the terrible knowledge of being seen.