My Place
(flash animation, 15:15 min)
Writer/Director/Producer
Our witty and charming Heroine struggles to make green choices in a confusing world.
Click to view the film on Planet Green.
Filmography
ANN MARIE FLEMING is an award-winning Canadian independent filmmaker of Chinese and Australian descent. She works in a variety of different genres including: dramatic, animation, experimental and documentary.
2009
2008
Landslide
(digital paint, 3:32 minutes)
Film by Ann Marie Fleming
"Landslide" interpreted by Sarah Jarvis
Lyrics- Stevie Nicks, Fleetwood Mac, 1974
-about a father-daughter relationship
This work was produced for 2008 Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival & Gendai Gallery Empty Orchestra Video Commission.
With the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.
Running (heart, body, mind, spirit)
(digital paint, 5 min.)
Writer/Director/Animator/Producer
Based on the theory that each acupuncture needle has a resonance and each resonance corresponds to an organ and each organ tells a different story . . . we watch the continuing saga of Stickgirl as he runs through her life. A film about resilience and endurance.
2006
M. O. O. D. (my obscure object of desire)
(digital, 2 min.)
Writer/Director/Animator
In this bravofact! commissioned cellphone mobisode... the heart tries to transform itself into whatever it thinks its love desires... but it all goes to hell.
Click to view the film on Shorts in Motion.
2005
ANN MARIE FLEMING is an award-winning Canadian independent filmmaker of Chinese and Australian descent. She works in a variety of different genres including: dramatic, animation, experimental and documentary. Click on the images to see clips.
The French Guy
(35 mm feature, 83 min.)
Writer/Director/Producer
Elizabeth Murray just wants to help! Feeling lucky to be alive after
surviving brain surgery, she brings home a stray young man to nurse him
back to health.
- Female Eye Film Festival
- Jacksonville Film Festival
- Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film & Video Festival
- Leo Awards Film Festival
- Singapore International Film Festival
- Canadian Filmmakers Festival
- 30th Cleveland International Film Festival - Somone to Watch
- Boston Underground Film Festival - Best of Fest Feature Film
- 21st Festival Mar del Plata Film Festival
- Park City Film and Music Festival - awarded the Gold Medal for
Excellence and Jury Choice for Best Impact of Music in a Feature film. - Victoria Independant Film Festival
- 5th Annual Whistler Film Festival
- Puerto Vallarta Film Festival
- Vancouver International Film Festival
- 2005 Toronto International Film Festival
- 2005 Ottawa International Animation Festival
Check out The French Guy film web site.
Room 710
Peephole
Sleeping
Phone
Meditation
(35 mm animated, 8 min.)
Writer/Director/Producer
A woman is awakened in her hotel room to a couple fighting next door. It all goes very terribly wrong. A true story.
- Ottawa International Animation Festival 2005
- Toronto International Film Festival 2005
- Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film and Video Festival 2006
2003
The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam
(35 mm documentary, 88 min.)
Writer/Director/Producer
A celebration of the spirit of Long Tack Sam's magic and art, this richly textured first person road movie is an exhilarating testament to his legacy and a prismatic tour through the 20th century. It all begins in a small village in China.
- Toronto International Film Festival
- Sundance Channel, Spring 2004
- BRAVO! Canada, Fall 2004
- Vancouver International Film Festival
- Mumbai International Film Festival
- Hong Kong International Film Festival
- Banff Television Festival, Rocky nominee
- San Diego Asian Film Festival,
- winner Newport Beach Film Festival,
- winner Reel Asian Film Festival,
- winner Victoria Film Festival,
- winner Oakland Film Festival, winner
2002
Blue Skies
(35mm drama, 7min.)
Writer/Director/Executive Producer
In a world hungry for martyrs or heroes, of global corporate culture, pointless elections and ceaseless political strife, there is still a way to use history as a healing force. There is still a personal ability and responsibility to continue to make art; art that moves us beyond helplessness; art that can celebrate the very act of living.
- Henry Miller Big Sur Short Film Program (2006)
- Toronto International Film Festival, winner Best Short
- Montreal World Film Festival
- winner Fajr Film Festival, Iran
- CBC, Summer 2003
2001
Lip Service - A Mystery
(35mm/digital/animated/live action drama, 45 min.)
Writer/Director/Producer
A single, unemployed, lipless woman hires herself out as a private detective, but the only thing she finds is her own vulnerability.
- Toronto International Film Festival
- Mostra Film Festival,
- Brazil Figuera de Foz, Lisbon
2000
1998
1997
1996
Automatic Writing
(experimental/historical drama, 16mm, 85min)
Writer/Director/Producer
Using the adventure-filled diary of her great great grandfather, SoTo-Ming, as a guide, the filmmaker explores the nature of biography.
- Locarno International Film Festival, Switzerland
- Sarajevo International Film Festival, Bosnia
- Izmir International Film Festival, Turkey
1995
1994
1992
1993
1991
1990
New Shoes
(16mm, Drama, 80min)
Writer/Director/Producer
A film that explores a woman's obsession with another woman's story in an attempt to understand the nature of violence while trying to stayapart from it.
- Rotterdam International Film Festival
- Berlin International Filmspiel
- Festival of Festivals, Toronto
- Canadian Film Week, Tokyo
- Museum of Modern Art, New York City
New Shoes: an interview in exactly 5 minutes
(16mm, drama, 5min)
Writer/Director/Producer
Made for Studio D's 5 Feminist Minutes series, this film explores the themes of media voyeurism and violence through the story of Gaye, whois a survivor of a murder/suicide attempt by her ex-fiancé.
- Vancouver International Film Festival
- Festival of Festivals, winner
- Ann Arbor Film Festival, Michigan, winner
- Rotterdam International Film Festival
- CBC Canadian Reflections
1989
You Take Care Now
(16mm, Experimental Documentary, 11min)
Writer/Director/Producer
A story of being raped and run over is an acknowledgement of commonhuman experience and the grace and humour that lets us go on.
- B.C. Student Film Festival, winner
- Canadian Student Film Festival, Montreal, winner
- Centre George Pompidou, Paris
- Ann Arbor Film Festival, winner
- 5th annual Festival of Films by Women Directors, winner
