General Information
Duration: 11 min 0 sec
Genres: Fiction, Short
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Submitted By: Jordana Valerie Allen-Shim
Festival Rating 7.4
Queer Isolation is a short film made for the Barrie Film Festival’s Youth Virtual Media Arts Program about Noelle, a young queer woman of color forced back into the closet when she moves back in with her parents after losing her job due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Film TypeFiction, Short
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GenresRomance
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Runtime11 minutes 0 seconds
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Production BudgetUSD
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Film ColorColor
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Student ProjectNo
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Director's Biography
Jordana Valerie is a Toronto-born, U.S.-raised award-winning writer, director, and editor whose work has been featured in over 100 film festivals around the globe. She is also a dog mom, She-Ra superfan, and aspiring graphic novelist. Her parents, a Korean immigrant to Canada and a Jewish American, met in Toronto before moving to Connecticut with Jordana Valerie and her younger sister.
Along with film, Jordana Valerie has a deep background in activism and social justice. She also worked in electoral politics for four years, holding leadership positions at several major progressive organizations, before realizing that she could make a far greater change through art. Now, she is intent on telling bold, disruptive stories about queer women and non-binary people of color.