Connor Jessup

A kennel owner, grappling with climate anxiety, falls in love with a customer service rep over the phone. Amid a natural disaster, he embarks on an adventurous, bilingual romantic journey to find her.

A woman surprises the family of her deceased boyfriend by telling them she's pregnant with his child.

Following the death of her mother, a young woman returns home to Niagara Falls and becomes entangled in the memory of a kidnapping she claims to have witnessed as a child.

After the suicide of his best friend, a teenage boy is forced to deal with his guilt and sexuality.

A creative and driven teenager is desperate to escape his hometown and the haunting memories of his turbulent childhood.

Katie Arneson is faking cancer. A university dance major, Katie's falsified diagnosis and counterfeit fundraising have transformed her into a campus celebrity surrounded by the supportive community she's always dreamed of. But now dependent on a bursary for sick students to maintain her ruse, Katie learns the funding is in jeopardy unless she can provide copies of her medical records within the week.

Jenjira, a Thai widow, travels to the ancient Buddhist temple Sigiriya in Sri Lanka to scatter her husband’s ashes. As her visions blur time and space, she is swept into a journey through across dimensions.

An unlikely friendship with a preppy classmate lands toubled teenager Sean Randall in serious hot water when he's falsely accused of planning a Columbine shooting scenario.

The coming-of-age journey of 5 teenage boys who leave their small, Canadian town behind and risk skating across Lake Ontario to New York on the coldest day of the year.

Canadian actor and filmmaker Connor Jessup (Closet Monster, Falling Skies) profiles Apichatpong Weerasethakul, a maverick of Thai cinema who explores the slippery nature of time and consciousness with a sublimely idiosyncratic, often surreal approach to film form.

Chloe, a straight talking film director, tries to convince her friend Sam to be an actor in her next short film. Just after finding out that he once again didn’t get into medical school, Sam meets Alex, a hypochondriac 18 year old. A love triangle forms in these self-reflexive, humoristic fragments filled with sex talk , set in New Orleans.

After dying in a horrific car crash, two bullied teens reappear completely healed and must decide the fate of their paralyzed friend.

Over 30 filmmakers and friends of Strand Releasing have come together to honor the company’s indelible contribution to independent cinema over the past thirty years. The participating filmmakers have each created a short film for the project, all shot on iPhones.

Over 30 filmmakers and friends of Strand Releasing have come together to honor the company’s indelible contribution to independent cinema over the past thirty years. The participating filmmakers have each created a short film for the project, all shot on iPhones.

As the end of her life approaches, an old woman encounters a strange spirit from a nearby forest.

As the end of her life approaches, an old woman encounters a strange spirit from a nearby forest.

As the end of her life approaches, an old woman encounters a strange spirit from a nearby forest.

A pilot navigates a storm. Inspired by the book by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Shot on an iPhone XS.

Two lonely people with a shared past - a wanderer and a waitress - meet again in a rural diner. As the nature of their relationship quietly reveals itself, the little details of their lives and memories intertwine.

Two lonely people with a shared past - a wanderer and a waitress - meet again in a rural diner. As the nature of their relationship quietly reveals itself, the little details of their lives and memories intertwine.

Two lonely people with a shared past - a wanderer and a waitress - meet again in a rural diner. As the nature of their relationship quietly reveals itself, the little details of their lives and memories intertwine.

The ghost of a young boy explores the world on the day of his death.

The ghost of a young boy explores the world on the day of his death.

The ghost of a young boy explores the world on the day of his death.

After uncovering a degraded vinyl album in an abandoned home, three musicians attempt to reimagine one of its songs.

Canadian actor and filmmaker Connor Jessup (Closet Monster, Falling Skies) profiles Apichatpong Weerasethakul, a maverick of Thai cinema who explores the slippery nature of time and consciousness with a sublimely idiosyncratic, often surreal approach to film form.

A mysterious case of sleepwalking becomes a tentative means of connection between two boarding school students in Connor Jessup's elegantly rendered story of adolescent longing.

A mysterious case of sleepwalking becomes a tentative means of connection between two boarding school students in Connor Jessup's elegantly rendered story of adolescent longing.

A lonely boy dreams after school.