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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.

  • Year
    2023
  • Runtime
    15 minutes
  • Language
    English, Farsi
  • Country
    Canada
  • Premiere
    Alberta
  • Subtitle Language
    English
  • Director
    Ava Maria Safai
  • Screenwriter
    Ava Maria Safai, Syd Castle
  • Producer
    Nicco Graham, Christopher Alexander Cook, Brook James, Mandana Mehrghorbani, Caylee Watrin, Ava Maria Safai
  • Cast
    Gelareh Ghodrati, Ashkan Nejati, Gus Tayari
  • Cinematographer
    Diego Lozano
  • Editor
    Chris Dietrich, Ava Maria Safai
  • Music
    Ethan Lawrence
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