Brendan Prost

Director

Biography

Brendan started his creative career as an actor when he was a child, transitioned to filmmaking in his teens, and has since become known principally as the unabashedly personal young auteur behind four feature films: Generation Why (Rising Star Award Winner at the Canada International Film Festival - 2010); Choch (“one of the intriguing and involving low-budget indies to cross my desk in 2011” – The Independent Critic); Spaces and Reservations (“a grounded and thought provoking look at modern lo…

Filmography

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Loose Ends

A woman in the midst of a devastating breakup is invited to her ex-boyfriend's apartment to return his keys. However upon arriving, she discovers she has been stood up. Left to her own devices in his empty apartment, she decides to revel in the nostalgic trappings of a place that once felt like home. In an unexpected turn of events, she is forced to confront her present when someone suddenly returns home and finds her in a compromising state.

6.0

Sensitive Parts

Sensitive Parts is a tender and sharply observed dramatic comedy about a young woman who is forced to confront her social anxiety and interpersonal fears before they consume her and the people she loves, with a little help along the way from the imaginary manifestation of an iconic popstar.

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The First Taste

A young journalist receives an immersive introduction to the erotic art of shibari, a non-monogamous couple has their dynamic tested by the arrival of an uninvited guest, and a sleeping stranger on a train sends ripples through the relationship of the man and woman who find her. An anthology of female-focused shorts exploring six new flavours of love and desire.

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Choch

A vérité-styled character study of a seemingly stereotypical "bro", who begins to experience an unlikely crisis of self. He struggles to change and fails, but finds hope for a different identity when he defies the expectations of a new friend.

4.2

Spaces and Reservations

Spaces and Reservations is an intimate and unsparingly realistic relationship drama that tells the story of a young couple being torn apart by malaise and infidelity, and the way the trauma of their breakup brings them back together. Jamie and Kacie have been dating for four years, and are separately beginning to feel the affects of malaise and disconnect. As they drift apart from one another and struggle to bridge the gaps growing between them, Jamie begins to develop feelings for another woman. After precariously flirting with infidelity, Jamie abandons this new pursuit and attempts to salvage his relationship with Kacie, only to discover that she too has fallen for someone else.

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Heavy Petting

Struggling to fill the void left by her missing cat, a woman has a queer encounter with an unexpected visitor. When the cat returns, the visitor is abandoned to a life of profound invisibility, which prompts a macabre test of their social obscurity.

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Fadeaway

After a hookup text leads to the discovery of a deadly overdose, a closeted bisexual man is confronted by his memories of the victim, and an old omen with newfound meaning.

3.0

Loretta's Flowers

On a languid summer's day in Toronto, a young woman cycles between increasingly intimate encounters, trapped in a pattern of insatiable longing.

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Main Squeeze

A couple in an open relationship have their holiday slumber shattered by the unexpected arrival of a secondary partner, who is drunk and on an ill-conceived mission to establish their romantic dominance.

10.0

Generation Why

A thoughtful and engaging examination of a young generation's struggle to find themselves and their place in the world as seen during the course of a 'slacker uprising' in one city incited by three frustrated high school graduates.

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