WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY COLIN NIXON

STARRING FRANCE CASTEL & ALAIN GOULEM

2021 – 13 MIN

DISTRIBUTION – H264

SYNOPSIS
In the Jam Jar is an invitation to the intimacy of 81-year-old Joan’s final days, whose musings silently echo with Dan’s, her 50-year-old son. This fiction short-movie is a dive into death and grief, a tribute to maternal love comprised of nail clippings, aquarelle, strawberry jam and a ghost radar.

FESTIVALS AND AWARDS

• Festival du Nouveau Cinéma (2021)
  • WINNER Jury Grand Prize
• Festival de courts métrage Images en vues (2021)
• SLAMDANCE Film Festival (2022)
• Prix Écrans Canadiens (2022)
• Canadian Film Fest (2022)
• Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma (2022)
• Gala Prends ça court! (2022)
• Gala Québec Cinéma (2022)
• Busan International Short Film Festival (2022)
• New York City Indie Film Festival (2022)
• Off-Courts Trouville (2022)
• Festival Courts d’un soir (2022) – WINNER Jury award
• HollyShorts Film Festival (2022)
• Lago Film Fest (2022)
• Festival de cinéma de la ville de Québec (2022)
• Festival Les Peréïdes (2022)
• Festival de cinéma de Knowlton (2022)
• Festival SPASM (2022)
  • WINNER Best film voted by the public
• St-Louis International Film Festival (2022) – WINNER Best short film
• Zubroffka Short Film Festival (2022)
• Pleins Écrans (2023)
  • WINNER Revelation of the year
  • WINNER Awarded by the peers
• Festival du Film Canadien de Dieppe (2023) – WINNER Special mention of the jury