The Wet Secrets’ Nightlife
dir. Trevor Anderson
Edmonton 2014
6:00
HD
An immortal vampire struggles to engage with youth culture. Starring Joe Flaherty (SCTV, Freaks and Geeks) as his cult character Count Floyd.
Bio
Trevor Anderson is a self-taught, independent filmmaker. His work has screened at many major international film festivals, including Sundance, Berlin, and Toronto. His film The Man That Got Away (2012) premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale) where it won the D.A.A.D. Short Film Prize. His previous films include The High Level Bridge (2010; Prairie Tales 13) which was included in the Sundance Institute Art House Project where it was favourably reviewed by Roger Ebert, and which won a “Special Mention – Live Action Short Film” at the American Film Institute’s AFI Fest in Los Angeles; The Island (2009) which won Best Short Film at the Pink Apple Festival in Zürich, Switzerland; and Rock Pockets (2007) which won the inaugural Lindalee Tracey Award at Hot Docs in Toronto, presented to “an emerging Canadian filmmaker working with passion, humour, a strong sense of social justice, and a personal point of view.” Anderson is also a stage director and playwright. He directed Edmonton’s original, live improvised soap opera DIE NASTY for five years, co-directing the first two of those seasons under Stewart Lemoine. Anderson is co-founder of the rock’n’roll band The Wet Secrets, whose song “Secret March” was listed in 2010 by Grant Lawrence of CBC Radio 3 as one of the “Top 20 Best Songs of the Decade.” Their newest album Free Candy is available worldwide on iTunes, and on LP and CD in Canada through Discount Gigolo/RPM Distribution and Wyrd Distro.
