PROTECTOR INFO:
Toronto
Synopsis: For 10 years the town of Wilfred has been suspiciously crime-free. But Evelyn (Chelsea Clark), recently released from juvenile detention into the care of the austere Dr. Flora (Rebecca Jenkins), discovers menacing and violent undercurrents of crime. An enigmatic stranger (Pras Lingam) comes to town as Chelsea sets out on a relentless mission to uncover the mystery of what is truly going on… But nothing is as it seems and her quest puts her life (and others’) in danger.
Director:
Lenin M. Sivam
Writer:
Lenin M. Sivam
Director of Photography:
Kalinga Deshapriya
Editor:
Lenin M. Sivam
Cast:
Chelsea Clark, Munro Chambers, Pras Lingam, Andrew Gillies, and Rebecca Jenkins
Associate Producer:
Madison Falle
Executive Producers:
Lenin M. Sivam, Brad Gregorini, Borga Dorter, Jordan Barker
Producer:
Munire Armstrong and Brandon Jourdin
Distributors:
Canada: Level Film
USA: Alarm Pictures
UK: Reel to Reel
World Sales: Hewes Pictures
A charismatic homeless woman captures the attention of a documentary film crew who are ready to exploit her story for their own shot at independent movie fame in this very modern, urban fairy tale set amidst a fractured ideal of family.
Director:
Milcho Manchevski
Writer:
Milcho Manchevski, Will P Rosenthal
Cinematographer:
Joshua Z Weinstein
Editor:
Ann Husaini
Cast:
Condola Rashad, Sarah Goldberg, Will Janowitz, Sathya Sridharan a.o.
Producers:
Anja Wedell, Munire Armstrong
Jasmine runs the Café Kotti in central Kreuzberg in the heart of Berlin with her East German father Werner and her Turkish step-mother Lila. For a long time, Kreuzberg was considered an undesirable place, but 25 years after the fall of the wall, the boutiques and fancy restaurants are on the doorstep and slowly the neighborhood is changing. Some people associate the latest wave of Syrian immigrants with crime and drug dealing but others, like Werner and Jasmine, hold an open door. When Jasmine breaks up with her German boyfriend to take up with a handsome young Syrian refugee, the division between friends, family and neighbors becomes politically heightened.
Writer/Director:
Carl Bessai
Producer:
Munire Armstrong, Carl Bessai
Cast:
Denise Ankel, Sammy Ounis, Lila Gürmen, Horst-Günter Marx
Jasmin, once a successful actor in his native pre-war Bosnia, dreams of returning to his country to continue his career, but fears losing his son Daniel if he follows through with his plan.
Director:
Igor Drljaca
Writer:
Igor Drljaca
Cast:
Jasmin Geljo, Filip Geljo, Masa Lizdek, Ma-Anne Dioniso, Goran Slavkovic, Cynthia Ashperger
Producers:
Munire Armstrong, Jordan Barker, Borga Dorter, Albert Shin
Production: Canada, 2015
Jill, a tenacious UMass freshman, abandons her studies for an off-the-grid snowboarding trip. When their SUV mysteriously becomes lost, temperatures fall and the group dynamic unravels as a virtual and then literal witch hunt begins.
Director:
Jordan Barker
Writer:
Christopher Borrelli
Producers:
Borga Dorter, Jordan Barker, Munire Armstrong
International Sales: Voltage Pictures
US Sales: XYZ
A man, who is beating his girlfriend in an empty park, is attacked by a woman. This woman and the girl run away thinking that she has killed him. The girl's sister joins them and they drive to meet their father in his summerhouse. This unexpected crime, which took them to this road, becomes a road to each other and to themselves. They realize on this road that their lives are about running away, disappearance, coincidence, insanity, failures and dreams... and most important of all a deep anxiety... Lodos, which is a strong Mediterranean wind, will follow them all the way.
Writer / Director:
Didem Erayda
Producer:
Munire Armstrong, Paul McFadden
Cast:
Sarp Sanin, Mustafa Uzunyilmaz, Yesim Kocak, Bulut Kopuk, Ruchan Caliskur
Production: Turkey / UK, 2009
An adaptation of ‘Ayran’, a short story by Sabahattin Ali, White as Snow is a fable-esque tale of constant struggle and survival. Twelve-year old Hasan (Hakan Korkmaz) is thrown into adulthood when his father is imprisoned his and mother (Sinem Islamoglu) is forces to travel to a distant village to work. With the job of looking after his two younger brothers, White as Snow follows what Hasan goes through to supplement his mothers income.
Director:
Selim Gunes
Writer:
Selim Gunes (story by Sabahattin Ali)
Producer:
Nur Gunes, Munire Armstrong
Cast:
Hakan Korkmaz, Sinem Islamoglu, Gursan Piri Onurlu, Kaya Akkaya
Production: Turkey / Greece, 2010
A series of fictional stories about the mosaic of new Canadians who interact with a Refugee Settlement Agency called Ashbridge.
Created by:
Carl Bessai / Munire Armstrong
Director:
Carl Bessai
Writers:
Shivon Singh, Carl Bessai, Munire Armstrong (story)
Cast:
Ben Corns, Erica Hau, Miriam Barry, Colin Khojasteh, Rumbie Muzofa
DOCUMENTARY (6 episodes, 2018)
The Journal of Immigrant Women asks the question “what it is to be a women” in a new country.
Director:
Munire Armstrong
Sibel Guvenc
Writer:
Banu Ozk:an Tozluyurt
Producer
Munire Armstrong
Cinematography:
Ilio Kotorenchev
Series Film Editor:
Vitold Vidic