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Jordan Canning is a filmmaker living and working in St. John’s, Newfoundland. Over the last four years she has directed eight short films and a number of music videos. In 2006 she was chosen for the Corus Young Filmmaker’s Initiative for her film, Here on In. Next, Jordan scaled back to create The House Series, a trilogy of shorts produced with no budget and each filmed in a different room of her home. In 2008, Bedroom screened at the Toronto International Film Festival and was awarded Best Atlantic Short at the Atlantic Film Festival. Her most recent film, the NSI Drama Prize Countdown, was a top ten finalist in the 2009 NFB Cannes Short Film Competition and placed 2nd internationally out of over 1400 films. Countdown is currently screening in countries around the world, including Ireland, France, the UK, Korea, China, the US and Canada. Jordan is currently developing her first feature while hibernating in St. John’s for the winter.
At the height of his career, a renowned concert pianist is suddenly struck with a strange affliction: one by one, he is losing the use of his fingers. As he struggles to adjust to each new loss, fate continues to mock him, and he falls face first from grace. Just when he thinks he’s hit rock bottom, the universe reveals some reasoning behind it all, and he must face his fear in order to fulfill his destiny.
The idea for Countdown grew out of an image: a pinky hovering above a piano key, and the missed note left hanging. That was finger number one.
Over long walks and talks – holding up our hands, curling down each finger – co-writer Jody Richardson and I slowly worked our way through the other nine digits. Although the story had elements of a tragic fable, inevitably we kept coming back to a dark, bittersweet comedy. The question to answer was, “How bad can it get?”
Making this film stretched and strengthened my directing muscles more than I could have ever hoped. My previous films had all been dialogue driven, dramatic, linear narratives, but this film allowed me to experiment with silent, physical comedy. Because there was no dialogue, I relied only on image, action and audio to tell the story. The absence of words opened up my filmmaking vocabulary in a way that has informed my work ever since.
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