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.
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 it's love desires... but it all goes to hell.
2005
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
Room 710
(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
Aguas de Março
(digital, 4 min.)
Director/Animator/Producer
An animated riff on Jobim's bossa nova classic.
- NXNW Music Festival,
-
Toronto
Blinding Light! Rock Action winner, Vancouver
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
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
Hysterical: The Musical
(animated/digital, 2min)
Writer/Director/Producer
A musical look at reproductive technologies circa 1962.
1998
AMF's TIRESIAS
(35mm/animated, 5min)
Writer/Director/Producer
The myth of Tiresias, revisited
- Ottawa Animation Festival,
- Bilbao Short Film & Documentary Festival, Spain
- Brisbane International Film Festival
1997
Great Expectations (not what you're thinking...)
(35mm/animated, 2min)
Stickgirl finds fame and fortune through documentary filmmaking.
1996
Automatic Writing
Using the adventure-filled diary of her great great grandfather, So
To-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
Pleasure Film (Ahmed's Story)
Writer/Director/Producer
A woman recounts Ahmed's dream of desire while a man sings to us about the ineffability of happiness
- Toronto International Film Festival
- Vancouver International Film Festival
1994
I Love My Work
(16mm/animated, 90sec)
Writer/Director/Producer/Animator
Some of life's little obstacles that get in the way of a girl and what she really wants: to do her work.
My Boyfriend Gave Me Peaches
(16mm/animated, 90sec)
Writer/Director/Producer/Animator
A schoolyard clapping song prepares us for future dysfunctional relationships.
1993
La fabula della bella familia auf du world
(16mm, 15min)
A polyglot tango through family dynamics after the matriarch dies.
It's Me, Again
(16mm, Documentary, 45min)
Writer/Director/Producer/Animator
Ostensibly a mockumentary on twins, this film explores narrative expectations and our desire for meaning
- Toronto Festival of Festivals
- Vancouver International Film Festival
Buckingham Palace
(35mm, 7min)
Writer/Director/Producer
What looks like a bad date turns out to be an allegory for why 1993 was not the year to be quoting T.S. Eliot
- Toronto Festival of Festivals
- Vancouver International Film Festival
1992
So Far So....
(16mm/animated, 2min)
A stick figure portrait of the artist as a young woman.
The New Man
(16mm, 5min)
With Mike Hoolboom-musical exploration of gender construction within the context of mainstream cinema
1991
Pioneers of X-Ray Technology: a film about Grandpa 
(16mm, 15min)
A film that juxtaposes the exploits of Grandpa with the unmentioned women that made them all possible
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 stay
apart from it (see New Shoes: an interview in exactly 5 minutes)
- 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, who
is 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 common
human 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
Drumstix
(16mm/animated, 2min)
A wooden artists' model tries her hand at syncopation with an unusual percussion set.
1987
Waving
(16mm, experimental documentary, 6min)
Writer/Director/Producer
Upon the death of her grandmother, a poetic vision on the eternal quality of family bonds.
- Vancouver International Film Festival
- Canadian Student Film Festival, winner
- Northwest Film and Video Festival, Oregon, winner
