Bungalow

A homecoming for 25-year-old Fay means introducing her spiffy new boyfriend to her dad for the first time – she just hadn’t counted on him being in the psych ward. Stuck mid-move, halfway into a new apartment and halfway out of his old place, it falls on Fay to clean out her daddio’s bungalow. Knee-deep in a fall-out shelter’s worth of canned goods, laundry soap, and juice boxes, how will her fresh start hold up when faced with her father’s untidy reality? Bungalow is a nostalgic trip down someone else’s memory lane navigating what it really means to give up.

This short film, based on a personal essay by Writer/Director Jenna Turk, was shot in February 2021 over three days across Southern Alberta with support from Calgary Arts Development and Alberta Foundation for the Arts. It is produced by The Deep End Collective (Jenna Turk) and Azzume Productions (Dawn Nagazina) who met during their previous time in the Herland mentorship program.

Bungalow premiered at the Central Alberta Film Festival (CAFF) where it was nominated for “Best Narrative Short” and lead Kiana Woo was nominated for “Best Female Actor” for her portrayal of “Fay”.

Cinematographer Alexis Moar and Director Jenna Turk on location in Nanton with “Tonka”

Select stills from Bungalow featuring actors Conner Christmas, Andy Curtis, Ivy Wong, and Kiana Woo. Click photo for individual caption/credit.

Written & Directed by

Jenna Turk

Cinematographer

alexis moar

Featuring

Kiana woo as fay

Conner christmas as elliot

andy curtis as tim

jillian daniel as hope

ivy wong as grace

1st AD & Script Supervisor

paige lansky

1st AC

tamarra lessard

Gaffer & Key Grip

connor couzens &

mark guico

Grip & LX Swing

Cody Southgate

Location Sound Recordist

Derek Waite

Craft Services

Ellie Stewart

Art Director

Jenna Turk

Assistant Art Director & Production Assistant

alexandria inkster

Costumes

Jenna Turk & the company

Video Editor

lela sanders

Sound Mixer & Editor

Thomas geddes

Composer

MIranda Martini

Colourist

Morgan Ermter

Graphic Designer

Monica Ila

Animation

Lela Sanders

Bearcat

A young woman attends a Survivalist themed birthday party where everyone must come dressed as someone or something that survives or whose aim is to survive… Clad as a bear —with eye-liner whiskers and a triangle nose, plus two buns on top of her head. Maya looks more like a not-so-fierce bearcat, as she fights her way through the night. While the other partygoers dance to Destiny’s Child and indulge in s’more cupcakes, all she wants is to avoid her ex. With stops at the tuck shop, the feeding station, and the lavatory, there’s potential danger at every turn. Will she make it out alive?

The Deep End Collective’s first foray into film, this short was supported by Herland, a mentorship program for emerging female filmmakers founded by Sandi Somers. Bearcat was shot over three days in Calgary, Alberta, with the support of CSIF and Telus Storyhive. Produced by The Deep End Collective and Executive Produced by Azzume Productions Inc.. The location generously provided by Charles Netto and Kai Hall.

Bearcat has completed post-production and premiered at the Edmonton Short Film Festival on October 17th, 2020. Its Herland screening was at High River’s Sunset Drive-In on October 22nd, 2020.

Written & Directed by

Jenna Turk

Cinematographer

Myriam Boutin

Featuring

KRISTEN PADAYAS

ALEXANDRIA INKSTER

Matthew Hall

Keshia Cheesman

Bianca Miranda

Melanie Bahniuk

Billy Brown

Elizabeth Ferguson-Breaker

Shannon Murphy

Robyn Ord

Connor Suart

Simon TottRup

1st AD

Jonelle Belcourt

1st AC

Julia Gunst

2nd AC

Kathleen Brigham

Script Supervisor

Paige Lansky

Key Gaffer

Mariana Kshanovska

Key Grip & Swing

Jake Purkiss

Boom Operators

Renai Buchanan &

Tremayne Wahlberg

Sound Recordist

Julia MacGregor

Sound Designer & Composer

Alixandra Cowman

1st Production Assistant

Martine Lavoie

2nd Production Assistant

Dawn Nagazina

Craft Services

Ellie Stewart

Set Decoration

Myriam Boutin & Jenna Turk

Costumes

Jenna Turk

Colourist

Myriam Boutin

Editor

Jenna Turk

Assistant Editor

Myriam Boutin

Everybody Has A Hungry Heart

A heartsick alien gets a stomach ache in this messy meta needle felt space odyssey created and performed by Jenna Turk for Calgary’s Animated Object Society’s Slamaliscious II: Spaced Out.

Slamaliscious aired online on October 16th, 2020, hosted by Xstine Cook and Mooky Cornish. It was later part of a live event, Puppet Spread: Into Space! at The Tank in New York City on July 15th, 2021.

Special thanks to Ali Deregt & Monica Ila as well as Graham Kingsley for their generous donations of materials, and Xtine Cook for their continued support. Cake made by Urbanbirdcakes.

Created & Performed by

Jenna Turk

Cinematographer, Editor, & Outside Eye

Matthew Hall

Music by

www.bensound.com

Produced by

Calgary Animated Objects Society

Like A Drunk In A Midnight Choir

Inspired by the telephone pole outside creator Jenna Turk’s window that bears a striking resemblance to a bird, Like A Drunk In A Midnight Choir is a burp-filled fever dream about freedom.

A 3 & 1/2minute needle felt rod puppet piece (with a nod to stop motion animation), Like A Drunk In A Midnight Choir was created for the 2020 Dolly Wiggler Cabaret in Calgary, Alberta as part of the Calgary Animated Objects Society’s inaugural Puppet Incubator program.

Due to the onset of the pandemic, instead of being performed live, the piece was prerecorded and edited to be more of a puppet movie.

The Dolly Wiggler Cabaret ran May 29th and 30th, 2020 online hosted by Xstine Cook and Mooky Cornish. The Puppet Incubator was produced by Amelia Marie Newbert, Managing Producer of the International Festival of Animated Objects Society.

Special thanks to Conrad Belau & Alixandra Cowman; Ali Deregt; Monica Ila; and Graham Kingsley for their generous donations of materials. As well as much gratitude to Peter, Xstine, Amelia, CAOS, CAMP, all fellow Puppet Incubator creators.

Created & Performed by

Jenna Turk

Cinematographer, Editor, & Outside Eye

Matthew Hall

Music: Restoration - Instrumental by

dan Warren

Mentor

Peter Balkwill

Produced by

Calgary Animated Objects Society

Remnants

Remnants is inspired by the Triangle Factory fire in 1911 New York which took the lives of 146 garment workers (most of whom were young immigrant women) and carries the audience through the day’s events leading up to the city’s deadliest workplace disaster prior to 9/11.

This story may be from the past, but it is terrifyingly relevant. Remnants aims to give voice to the lost women.

Originally supported by an Ontario Arts Council Creators’ Reserve Grant through the Shaw Festival, then funded by an Emerging Playwright Grant from the Toronto Arts Council, Remnants was selected to be part of The Women’s Work Festival in St. John’s, Newfoundland in March 2017 where it received dramaturgical help from Donna Butt and a staged reading.

The Deep End Collective was awarded Canada Council Project Grant funding to do a weeklong workshop of Remnants in Trinity, Newfoundland hosted by Rising Tide Theatre and White Rooster Theatre in October 2017.

A second workshop, funded by a Project Grant from the Toronto Arts Council, was held by The Deep End Collective in the summer of 2018 in Toronto.

Its premiere production was produced by White Rooster Theatre in the winter of 2019 at LSPU Hall in St. John’s Newfoundland.

Written by

Jenna Turk

Directed by

Ruth Lawrence

Featuring

Nora Barker
Vanessa Cardoso
Karen Monie
Nabila Qureshi

Set Design by

Emily Austin & Lois Brown

Projection Design by

Patrick Dempsey

Costume Design by

Melanie Ozon

Lighting Design by

Diana Daly

Sound Design by

Michelle La Cour

Movement by

Lynn Panting

Stage Managed by

Jamie Tait

The Starving Time

The Starving Time is inspired by archeological evidence found in 2013 that definitively proved the settlers in Jamestown had resorted to cannibalism in the face of freezing temperatures and the onset of starvation, The Starving Time is an exploration of what it really means to be hungry. The need to fill ourselves up, to consume, to suppress.

A poetic piece of theatrical writing, The Starving Time is lyrical and non-linear. Is this Jamestown? Is this New Canada? Is this another world?

Originally developed through the Alberta Playwrights’ Network and the 2017 RBC Emerging Artists Mentorship Program.

Presented by Theatre Junction GRAND as part of their Next Stage series in Calgary, Alberta from June 7th to 10th, 2018.

Directed by

Sharon Pollock

Set & Lighting Design by

Kathryn Smith

Sound Design by

Kathy Zaborsky

Stage Managed by

Michael Luong

The Diary of a Manic Pixie Dream Girl

A young woman plays the typically one-dimensional MPDG role to find herself.

A 20-minute monologue adapted from a novel and presented by Jenna Turk at The Skyline Restaurant at the 2014 Lab Cab Festival in Toronto’s Parkdale neighborhood.

Written & Performed by

Jenna Turk

Produced by

Aviva Armour-Ostroff & Andre Du Toit

Transition Lenses

Looking at funerals through rose-coloured glasses.

Two autobiographical monologues, Whelan's and Rose-Coloured Glasses, written and performed by Jenna Turk at Food & Liquor in Toronto’s Parkdale neighborhood as part of the 2013 Lab Cab Festival.

Written & Performed by

Jenna Turk

Produced by

Aviva Armour-Ostroff & Andre Du Toit

Abra-Cadaver!

A black comedy about death inspired by the life of Dorothy Parker! Legendary New York City literary wit, Dorothy Parker, spent her entire life trying to kill herself. She failed every time. Join 100-year-old Dorothy as she takes you on the ride of her life…and death.

Initially workshopped at the Paprika Festival and supported by their Old Spice program with dramaturgy from Adam Lazarus and direction from Maya Rabinovitch.

Then, presented at the 2011 Toronto Fringe. Directed by Maya Rabinovitch; Set, Costume, & Set Design by Laura Storey; Lighting Design and Stage Management by Courtney Pyke.

Written & Performed by

Jenna Turk

Directed by

Maya Rabinovitch

Set Design by

Laura Storey

Lighting Design & Stage Managed by

Courtney Pike