
Creepy, dark, silly and wild. This package is full of deranged humour and bone-chilling scares. Best viewed with friends and with the lights off.
Meet Melody; at fifteen, she is outspoken, intelligent, and creative. Melody enjoys hanging out with her friends, keeping up with 70s pop culture, and dreams of performing in her school talent show. The problem? Her strict father, a traditionalist, shakes Melody’s world overnight after sewing a zipper onto her mouth on her sixteenth birthday.
ZIP will be screened as a part of the SHORTS: I CAN'T GO TO SLEEP package.
- Year2023
- Runtime15 minutes
- LanguageEnglish, Farsi
- CountryCanada
- PremiereAlberta
- Subtitle LanguageEnglish
- DirectorAva Maria Safai
- ScreenwriterAva Maria Safai, Syd Castle
- ProducerNicco Graham, Christopher Alexander Cook, Brook James, Mandana Mehrghorbani, Caylee Watrin, Ava Maria Safai
- CastGelareh Ghodrati, Ashkan Nejati, Gus Tayari
- CinematographerDiego Lozano
- EditorChris Dietrich, Ava Maria Safai
- MusicEthan Lawrence
Creepy, dark, silly and wild. This package is full of deranged humour and bone-chilling scares. Best viewed with friends and with the lights off.
Meet Melody; at fifteen, she is outspoken, intelligent, and creative. Melody enjoys hanging out with her friends, keeping up with 70s pop culture, and dreams of performing in her school talent show. The problem? Her strict father, a traditionalist, shakes Melody’s world overnight after sewing a zipper onto her mouth on her sixteenth birthday.
ZIP will be screened as a part of the SHORTS: I CAN'T GO TO SLEEP package.
- Year2023
- Runtime15 minutes
- LanguageEnglish, Farsi
- CountryCanada
- PremiereAlberta
- Subtitle LanguageEnglish
- DirectorAva Maria Safai
- ScreenwriterAva Maria Safai, Syd Castle
- ProducerNicco Graham, Christopher Alexander Cook, Brook James, Mandana Mehrghorbani, Caylee Watrin, Ava Maria Safai
- CastGelareh Ghodrati, Ashkan Nejati, Gus Tayari
- CinematographerDiego Lozano
- EditorChris Dietrich, Ava Maria Safai
- MusicEthan Lawrence