Synopsis
Charlie and Mere navigate co-parenting their dog, Archie, after their relationship falls apart.
Technical details
- Category
- Fiction
- Year
- 2025
- Country
- Canada, ON
- Running time
- 16 min
- Languages
- English
- Subtitles
- French subtitles
- Aspect ratio
- 1.66
- Picture
- Colour
- Sound
- Stéréo, 5.1
Cast
Grace Glowicki Nahéma Ricci Lane Webber
Crew
- Scénario
- Jessie Posthumus
- Production
- Nancy Pettinicchio, Rebeca Ortiz
- Direction de la photographie
- Alice Stephens
- Direction artistique
- Abigail Chevalier and Nicole Cipriani
- Montage
- Jessie Posthumus
- Design sonore
- Paloma Daris
- Mixage sonore
- Pino Halili
- Musique originale
- Peter Czibolya
Stills
Festivals and awards
- 2025
- Festival du Nouveau Cinéma
Filmmaker
Jessie Posthumus
Jessie Posthumus is a genderqueer screenwriter, director, and film editor based in Toronto. Through poetic realism, empathy, and humour, Jessie explores the intersections between queerness, working-class struggles, and the human connection to nature. Their previous narrative short film ROCKET FUEL (2022) and documentary series BAD AT THIS (2022) have screened at festivals such as the Palm Springs ShortFest, Hot Docs, Frameline, Outfest, Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, Vancouver International Film Festival, RiverRun, and more. During TIFF 2024, Jessie pitched their short film HOW'S ARCHIE? as a finalist of the Trans Filmmakers Summit x Spindle Films Foundation inaugural Short Film Fund. Jessie’s debut feature film version of ROCKET FUEL has recieved Telefilm financing with Canadian production company Edge Entertainment.
Filmography
- 2025In Lieu of Flowers
- 2025How's Archie
- 2022Bad at This
- 2022Small Congratulations
- 2022Rocket Fuel