Saguenay international
short film festival

Synopsis

Mahalia, a timid 9-year-old black girl, feels different from the other girls in her ballet class. Hoping to boost her confidence, her mother brings her to the hair salon to get her hair straightened for the very first time.

Production :
Colonelle films
Distribution :
Travelling
Contact :
Music :
Strange Froots
Sound designer :
Sylvain Bellemare and Guillaume Daoust
Screenplay :
Carmine Pierre-Dufour
Cast :
Kaiyonni Banton-Renner and Sagine Sémajuste
Editing :
Myriam Magassouba
Cinematographer :
Olivier Gossot

In competition for :


Jury Award

International FIPRESCI Critic's Award

Public award

Direction
  • Emilie Mannering

    Emilie’s first short film STAR won several national and international awards. She then directed the feminist web series Les Brutes and co-directed her second short film Mahalia Melts In the Rain. She is currently working on writing her first feature film, Tous mes premiers amours.

  • Carmine Pierre-Dufour

    After completing a master’s degree in Television, Radio, and Film at Syracuse University, Carmine Pierre-Dufour secured an internship at Focus Features in Los Angeles. Perfectly bilingual, she adapted episodes of Web Therapy for TV5 Québec. She also wrote and co-directed the short film Mahalia Melts in the Rain.