Curriculum Vitae

Red Smarteez Films

Red Smarteez appears in Strings Attached, a film by David LaRiviere, 4 minutes, Super8/video, 2018

First Seizure, 3 minutes, digital video, 2013

The Kay Stories, series of six shorts, 44 minutes, 16mm/BetaSP, 2006

tangly wood, 13 minutes, 16mm, 2003

Sister, What Happened?, 13 minutes, various puppets, super 8, 2003

Rhubarbed!, 8:49 minutes, puppet video, 2002

goats, 9:30 minutes, super 8, 2000

October 8, 11:10 minutes, super 8, 1999-2000

Done Fishin', 5:20 minutes, super 8, 1999

One Last Trick, 6:40 minutes, super 8, 1998

Awards

Honourable Mention, The Kay Stories: Visiting the Zoo, Picture this… Film Festival, Calgary, 2006

Best Super 8, Another Family Portrait, 13th CSIF $100 Film Festival, 2005

Best of Alberta, tangly wood, 12th Annual C.S.I.F. $100 Film Festival, 2004

Banana Slug Award for Surrealism, tangly wood, Humboldt International Short Film Festival, 2004

Best of Alberta, October 8, 9th Annual C.S.I.F. $100 Film Festival, 2000

Selected Red Smarteez Screenings

First Seizure

  • Red Rover, PAVED Arts. Saskatoon, FAVA, Edmonton, EM Media, Calgary, October 2013

  • Poetry in Film, Sask Film Pool, Regina, September 2013

  • International Puppet Underground Film Festival, Regina, March 2013

Gene’s Film

  • Worldwide Short Film Festival, Toronto, May 2007

  • Cinemateque Toronto, November 2006

The Kay Stories (6 short films)

  • Saskatoon Fringe Festival, August 2007

  • Festival of Animated Objects, January 2007

  • Picture this… Film Festival, Calgary, February 2006

  • The Kay Stories: The Strangers in the Mall

    • also currently touring in “Handmade Puppet Dreams”, curated by Heather Henson

  • The Kay Stories: Visiting the Zoo

    • International Disability Film Festival, Penn State University, 2006

    • Calgary International Film Festival (CIFF), September 2005

    • Seven Minute Film Festival, Canmore, November 2005

tangly wood

  • Epcor Centre, Calgary, October 2009

  • Tidal Wave Film Festival, Fredericton, November 2004

  • Planet in Focus (Toronto), October 2004

  • Worldwide Short Film Festival, Toronto, May 2004

  • 37th Humboldt International Short Film Festival, Arcata, CA, April 2004

  • FLICKS International Film Festival for Young People, Saskatoon, 2004

  • Reel to Real International Film Festival for Youth, Vancouver, 2004

  • 10th Salon de Refusés, LIFT, Toronto, September 2003

goats

  • The Rungius Films, Glenbow Museum, Calgary, July-November 2001

One Last Trick

  • Gene Siskel Theatre, Chicago, October 2007

  • Toronto Comic Arts Festival, Toronto, May 2005

  • Images Festival of Film and Video, Toronto, Ontario, April 2000

  • Vancouver Underground Film Festival, November 1999

  • New York LGBTQ+ Film Festival, 1999

Selected Red Smarteez Performances

The Story of Goat Mountain, 2000-2005

  • Regina Children’s Festival

  • Calgary Folk Music Festival

  • Canadian Northern Children’s Festival (Prince George)

  • South Country Fair

  • Canada Day (Banff, 2001 & Calgary, 2000)

  • Revelstoke Mountain Arts Festival

  • Muskoseepi Park (Grande Prairie)

  • International Festival of Animated Objects.

Taxi Troubles, 1998-2001

  • Spectrum: A Sunshine Celebration (Medicine Hat)

  • The Rocky Mountain Children’s Festival (Grande Cache)

  • Crowsnest Pass Allied Arts

  • Red Deer Youth Festival

  • Bow Island Library Children’s Festival

  • interPLAY Festival (Fort McMurray)

  • Calgary Folk Festival

  • The Edmonton Fringe Festival

  • Shady Grove Bluegrass Festival (Nanton)

  • South Country Fair (Fort Macleod)

Z-axis, with Ryan Scott Davidson, multi-media event, Paved Arts, Saskatoon, 2009

Crazy Christmas Carol, performed at 25 locations in Alberta and BC, 1998-2006

Tactical Art Coalition & the Alberta College of Art and Design Student Association, 2005