A.K.A. 'The Audit (Line Item: Foster Child')
"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.
"A hilarious, 16-minute tour de force..." Calgary Herald
Synopsis
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..." )
Accolades for A Tax on Pochsy
- 8 Alberta Motion Picture Industry Award Nominations
- AMPIA Prizes: Best Short, Best Art Direction (Anne Marie Nakagawa)
- NFB Filmmakers Assistance Program Prize - Calgary International Film Festival - "Best of Alberta"
- Audience Choice Award, Dawson City International Short Film Festival
- Grand Jury Prize, SUYS International Festival of Short Film
Screenings: The Audit (Selected)
- Edinburgh International Film Festival*
- Strasbourg International Film Festival*
- Palm Springs International Film Festival*
- Rhode Island International Film Festival*
- High Performance Rodeo Bravo!FACT Screening
- Athens International Film and Video Festival*
- Female Eye International Film Festival
- Vancouver Women In Film Festival
- (more T.B.A...)
Screenings: A Tax on Pochsy (Selected)
- Athens International Film and Video Festival*
- Dawson City International Short Film Festival
- Atlanta International Film Festival*
- Sydney Underground Film Festival
- Calgary International Film Festival
- Boston Underground Film Festival
- Female Eye International Film Festival, Toronto
- Fernie Reel Film Festival
- Edmonton Intrnational Film Festival
- Reel Shorts
- SUYS International Short Film Festival
* Oscar-qualifying Film Festivals
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
A Tax on Pochsy - Production Stills: