A.K.A. 'The Audit (Line Item: Foster Child')
Pochsy* is a mercury-poisoned factory worker who glows like the ghost of a silent film star and is pretty as the corpse. "A Tax on Pochsy " finds her pacing a creepy government waiting room and offering up a new and insidious kind of alibi as she awaits the Tax Man's wrath. This black little satire steals both from early horror films and contemporary Noxzema ads in the creation of a public service announcement from hell, advertising a century worth of North American dreams gone bad. (*Pochsy is an anagram for "psycho" and sounds like "poxy..." )
"A hilarious, 16-minute tour de force..." Calgary Herald
Accolades for A Tax on Pochsy
- 8 Alberta Motion Picture Industry Award Nominations
- Audience Choice Award, Dawson City International Short Film Festival
- Grand Jury Prize, SUYS International Festival of Short Film, Calgary
- Best of Alberta Award, 2009, Calgary International Film Festival (NFB Filmmakers Assistance Program Prize)
"A Tax on Pochsy" is a companion piece to the multi-award-winning short “My Name is Pochsy: An Industrial Film.” "The Audit (Line Item: Foster Child)" is a shorter cut of "A Tax on Pochsy."
(Commissioned by: Bravo!FACT with funding from The Canada Council for the Arts and the Alberta Film Development Program.
Screenings: A Tax on Pochsy
- Los Angeles Short Film Festival
- Athens International Film and Video Festival
- Dawson City International Short Film Festival
- Atlanta International Film Festival
- Boston Underground Film Festival
- Female Eye International Film Festival, Toronto
- Fernie Reel Film Festival
- Show Us Your Shorts Film Festival
- Sydney Underground Film Festival
- Calgary International Film Festival
- (more T.B.A...)
Screenings: The Audit (Line Item: Foster Chld)
- Rhode Island International Film Festival
- Atlanta Internatonal Film Festival
- Palm Springs International Short Film Festival (Upcoming)
- Edinburgh International Film Festival (Upcoming)
- High Performance Rodeo Bravo!FACT Screening, 2010
- Female Eye International Film Festival 2010
- Vancouver Women In Film Festival 2010
- Athens International Film and Video Festival
- (more T.B.A...)
Funded with Grants from The Canada Council, Bravo!FACT and The Alberta Film Development Program
Key Production Credits:
- Karen Hines – Writer, Director, Performer, Producer
- Patrick McLaughlin - Cinematographer
- Greg Morrison – Composer
- Jamie Francey - Picture Editor
- Benny Zenga - Cinematographer
- Greg Woodbury - Cinematographer
- John Turner – First Assistant Director, Co-Producer, Collaborator
- Sandra Balcovske - Story Editor, Collaborator
- Frank Laratta - Sound Editor
- Peter Moller - Graphic Artist, Stills
- Richard McDowell – Technical Advisor/ Web Design
Funded with Grants from The Canada Council, Bravo!FACT and The Alberta Film Development Program