Heather Rudynski, “Scripted”, 2008, 16mm, digital.

Heather Rudynski was born and raised in Fort Erie and uses the backdrop of the Niagara area as inspiration for many of her film ideas. The natural wonder of the Falls, the history of the area, and the gathering of people from all over the world to this place has influenced her to dream on an all encompassing global scale. The short film “Scripted” is her first film produced outside of Humber College where she studied film and television production. Shot entirely on 16mm then transferred digitally, the film is about the dream of making a film. The main character, Jane, is struggling with her desire to see her script come to life, and the reality of the lines she tells herself. After she is visited by her “Guardian Director” and “Script Supervisor” in a dream, she begins to understand it’s what we tell ourselves that determine the outcome of fulfilling our dreams or not. Once her self-script reads, “I CAN do it, it’s my dream,” the real action begins.  Visually the film is designed to look worn, over-played, hand-processed, and handled roughly as one’s script often is.  It alternates between under and over exposed to symbolise dark and light revelations between subconscious thoughts and conscious behavior. The intention of “Scripted” is to leave the viewer to investigate his or her “lines” that are repeated in one’s own self-script.