fast productions & codependent films present:


A comedy about life in the deep end.

The Vancouver Province calls Swimming Lessons “a droll delight”.
Canadamovies.net calls it “a masterful little delight” and gives it 3.5 stars.

fast productions & codependent films present:
an Ellen Raine-Scott film
STARRING: Jodelle Ferland (Silent Hill, Tideland)
LOG LINE: Swimming Lessons is the story of 8 year old Zoe, who must swim – or sink- facing her fears on testing day at the swimming pool.
GENRE: Short, Dramatic
RUNNING TIME: 7:07 minutes
SCREENING FORMAT: Widescreen with Dolby E sound, HD CAM or DIGI BETACAM
SHOT ON: High Definition / Digital
TECH NOTES:

The camera team used the Sony F900 HD Camera from Clairmont and ultra prime lenses. Our second unit used the Sony HDV camera. We then crushed the blacks and washed out the colours in post to create the look of a faded photograph of a childhood memory.

SYNOPSIS:
Eight year old Zoe hates to get wet. She hates swimming. And above all, she hates swimming lessons. And today is the worst Saturday in swimming lesson history – because today - is testing day.

Zoe will have to squeeze herself into a cold, clammy piece of lycra in a public changing room, risk life and toe crossing publicly trodden-on floors, brave "the showers", get her face wet in the shallow end - and perform the dreaded ‘Dead Man's Float'. And, she'll have to do it in the deep end.

Today is the day that Zoe must swim, or sink, in the deep end. And she's in way over her head.

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