We're ALMOST DONE! Just need a little help with post production (audio mix & festival entry fees)

We wrapped the film, it was edited by wicked legend Reg Harkema and stars Sean Jones! The colour is beautiful (by Redlab).

Just don't have enough to get to finish line. Hope you will help!

And my surgery is done and arm healed‍

TITLE: Dogs of Mercy Park

LOGLINE: A series of opportune moments and odd connections happen when an enigmatic stranger passes through a city park on an autumn afternoon.

PROJECT TYPE: Short Film

GENRE: Thriller / Drama in the giallo style with bizarre, comedic moments

FILM DATES: Autumn 2025 (late Oct)

POST PRODUCTION: Almost totally finished - July 2026

STARRING: Sean Jones

DIRECTED BY: J.Christian Hamilton (host of Dementia13 Radio, 89.5fm Toronto)

CINEMATOGRAPHER: Osman Forcé

First AD Grace MacInerney

Second AD Lorena Reyes

Production Designer Roxy MacDonald

Art Director Sarah Beal

We’ve gone to festival & won awards; now hoping to blossom and take it up a notch!

Parts of this story and its characters will pave the way for our feature length - a seminal step in the career of emerging filmmakers. Your help will allow us to take this step and it’s so greatly appreciated!

The director recently broke her arm, having a subsequent bone graft so what a difference your contribution will make!

CHARACTERS

Dangerous antagonists, delightful oddballs, a herd of heroes and the perennial trickster - a 12 foot inflatable pig custom-made to order that has recently arrived (and phew - already paid for).

Excerpts from script re our favorite prop:

In the foreground, a gigantic inflatable form, at least three metres in width tumbles past. Half toy, half balloon, the tumbling, floating, inflatable pig has a jaunty red striped

hat, tipped to the side and too small for its fat head

(later)…..

Inflatable pig is on its back in the grass, still for the first time. Across its immense stomach, a child with vacant eyes and slack jaw is reclining comfortably. The child's legs

spread askew distort giant pig's face so its cartoon smile is grotesque

THEMES

These days it feels as though the world is tearing itself apart with violence and social division.

We aim to do our part as artists, oiling troubled waters with our (thrilling!) film, entertaining through creepy tense action punctuated by moments of JOY!

At its core, Dogs of Mercy Park explores the notion of light in darkness, hope and camaraderie.

This is our first time working with the actor’s union, ACTRA and some of this will go towards the actors fees, the rest to production & post-production costs.

THANK YOU FROM THE WHOLE CAST & CREW!!!