Screening: Sunday, Sep 14, 4pm at Soo Theatre (Block 13) |
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Director: Rebeka Herron
Narrative Feature, Canada, 2024, 105 min, Color
Charlie is a recluse in his thirties who lives through his forums and message boards. Continually offering advice and support to sufferers of agoraphobia, he states that he is going to embark on a world trip. Terrified of the outside world, Charlie, with the help of his overly curious convict neighbour Ethan, must travel the world without leaving the comfort of his own living room.
The film was shot in Sault Ste Marie, Ontario, and many of the cast and crew live there.
Director/Producer: Rebeka Herron
Writers: Steve Moody, Rebeka Herron
Key Cast: Richard Barlow, Eric Miron
As an aspiring mixed race differently-abled Latina director Rebeka Herron has directed fitness series Kiss My Incoming Abs for Novus TV, music videos, and animated short films Chick-a-Duck and Beka & Nico. She is an alumna of Capilano University’s Motion Picture Program, Women in the Director’s Chair, and the Canadian Film Centre. Rebeka is a member of the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television, the Canadian Media Producers Association (CMPA), and ACTRA.
Rebeka began her career in development for Brightlight Pictures before transitioning to the story department on several lifestyle and reality programs, including the award-winning series, Ice Pilots NWT.
Rebeka worked as Supervising Line Producer at Taqqut Productions, specializing in animation and children’s content including; TIFF award winning stop motion short film The Shaman’s Apprentice, and UNNIKKATUAT.
In 2018, Rebeka opened her production company Rusty Halo Productions, and in 2020 co-founded the Sault Film Festival.
To me, Armchair Traveller is a small story with universal themes. It is a story about the ways we choose to represent ourselves on social media. As we continue to engage in a dialogue about how social media impacts our lives, it’s important that we shed light on how social media can not only consume our lives but also how it can connect us with people around the world.
My mandate from the very beginning has been to produce misfit stories featuring unique characters, and Armchair Traveller is an intimate look into how one lie on social media can spiral out of control—and in Charlie’s sake into a hilarious out-of-control mess.
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