A SHORE AWAY
Fiction | 0h17 | 2021
Director : Gaëlle Graton
Actors : Judith Baribeau, Rosalie Fortier
Production : Gaëlle Graton
Scriptwriting : Gaëlle Graton
Photography direction : Charlie Laigneau
Newly employed in an emergency shelter for people experiencing homelessness, Genevieve is shocked to meet again with Camille, a young woman whom she believed to have successfully reinserted while being her social worker.
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*Shot in a real emergency shelter for homeless people in Montreal, QC, Canada.
About the director
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Gaëlle Graton studied in Sociology and Film Production at Concordia University. She is keen to make her view of the world more complex and question the under-representation of marginalized people on screen. In 2020, she produced and directed her first fiction short film L’AUTRE RIVE (A Shore Away). As a writer-director, she is currently developing the short period drama PETTICOATS with Ugo Média. Aside from directing, she also works as a indie producer as well as a distribution coordinator at h264. As an author and poet, she also counts among her important contributions, Un peuple à genoux (2016), Libérer la colère (2018), Projet #MoiAussi (2020).