10-33

Ava’s quiet date night out at the cinema turns into a nightmare when she’s trapped in a toilet stall during an active shooting attack. With only a thin door separating her from the gunman, she is forced to confront him and try to find a way to survive.

[Director Statement] ↓

This genesis of 10-33 came from experiences surrounding the countless horrific attacks perpetrated more often then not by men against women.

This issue is very often considered an American issue, however, these types of attacks are sadly not uncommon in Canada, see the attacks at Dawson College, Montreal, Polytechnique, Montreal, and other attacks in Toronto and Nova Scotia just to name the most recent.

10-33 is set in Toronto for that reason to raise awareness to this issue of incel threats to the safety of women in Canada. My goal was not to glorify violence in any respect, hence why we never see the acts or tools of violence or the gunman.

This is a story of Ava’s experience through a traumatic event and so I wanted to force the audience to sit and live through her subjective POV. With the ultimate goal of imparting empathy on the audience and hopefully a resolve that we can’t let this be the new normal. We must strive to do everything in our power to ensure these attacks never happen in the first place.