Demon Box
- Sean Wainsteim
- Canada
- 2023
- 14 mins
- Sun Jan 28
- 10:00 AM
- Market Hall
After festival rejections, a director revises his intensely personal short film about trauma, suicide, and the Holocaust. He transforms the film into a painful, blunt and funny dissection of itself, and of his own life. Ten years in the making.
Guests in attendance, Q&A with Sean Wainsteim
- English
- Captioned in English
- Quirky
Virtual & Hybrid Passholder Pre-order is now open for this film in the Virtual Theatre. Individual Virtual Theatre ticket sales open January 17th.
About the Filmmaker
- Filmmaker: Sean Wainsteim
- Writer: Aurora de Peña, Sean Wainsteim
- Producer: Simone Stock, Misha Skoric, Sean Wainsteim, Brendan Steacy
- Key Cast: Liam Hill, Michael Jordan, JJ Greenberg, Richard Cole, Vince Mayer, Michael Murkavitch, Amanda Pye, Aphra Willis, KayLi Lum
- Other Credits: Editors: Geoff Ashenhurst, Sean Wainsteim; Sound Design, Music & Mix: Armen Bazarian; Production Design: Joshua Turpin
Filmmaker Sean Wainsteim is the survivor of one (1) plane crash and one (1) art school. For over twenty years, he’s made commercials, television, music videos, documentaries, animation, robots and photography for Nickelodeon, Sony, Budweiser, Nike, The Rolling Stones, The History Channel, IFC and MTV2. In his personal projects, Sean often uses magic-realism to explore intersections between generational trauma and storytelling.
Sean is the proud recipient of grants from BravoFACT!, MuchFACT!, Toronto Arts Council, Ontario Arts Council and Canada Arts Council, countless design awards and was MUCHMusic Video Awards’ Director of the Year.
In his personal projects, Sean often uses magic-realism to explore intersections between generational trauma and storytelling. Sean is currently in post production on ALTERATIONS, his first narrative feature film. Filmed in his grandfather’s home, ALTERATIONS uses fairytale imagery and themes to explore his grandfather’s journey from a war refugee to a sweatshop tailor.