Tsawwassen's Nelson Leis and Vanessa Walsh's new short film will be premiering this Halloween at the Monsters of Film Festival in Stockholm, Sweden.
Their film, titled Chiral, is a psychological thriller.
"It's basically one person's struggle against themselves," says Leis. "That's sort of what happens in the end. You're left going, 'Did this really happen or is this all in this person's head?'" Leis and Walsh both produced and acted in the film. Leis notes their project's director Karen Lam had a relationship with the festival's organizers. He adds the film is
slated to make its Canadian premiere at a festival in Toronto next month and that they're hoping to show it closer to home, perhaps at a local arts centre.
Leis says Chiral was inspired by true events: the theft of a cellphone and a laptop in separate incidents.
He says he wanted to explore the fallout effects of those actions "What struck me was one person's actions has this fallout effect that they're not aware of."
While they came up with the original story idea, Lam wrote and directed the film. She really peeled it back, brought it to the original core and added a supernatural element, says Leis.
Walsh says Chiral was filmed over two days in Vancouver.
"I'm really proud of what we made," she says.
The film has a Facebook page setup at https://www.facebook.com/pages/Chiral/740586905979421.
