Sara Jade Alfaro | Director | Selected Works
After All These Years (How Could I Possibly Go Back Out There?)
(2020) | Short Film
Directed by Sara Jade Alfaro
Produced by Mikayla Fasullo
Carla, aged 26 (but feels more like 25) is ready to get back out into the world, after a harrowing breakup with a man named Carl. Through trials and tribulations, and the occasional calming ASMR video, she manages to find a strategy in tackling the curveballs that come with modern heartbreak and finds joy in the little things.
*currently in festival circuit*
pw: carl
Natural Processes (2020) | Music Video
Directed by Sara Jade Alfaro
Produced by Sara Jade Alfaro & Audrey Liskauskias
A young model enters her first session, learning quickly about the dynamics of being in front and behind the lens.
Music video shot in collaboration with Seattle-based experimental band Sous Chef.
Victories (2018) | Music Video
Directed by Sara Jade Alfaro
Produced by Tim Sharp & Maria Sartzetaki
We twist and turn down the rabbit hole with 14 year old Egyptian dancer Kenzy as she celebrates the little victories.
Music video shot in collaboration with Toronto indie-rock band Tange.
Winner of California Music Video & Film awards in 2019 under category "This Rocks"
Nominee for "Best Movement (choreography).
Meet Kenzy (screentest) | Short Film
Directed by Sara Jade Alfaro
Produced by Sara Jade Alfaro & Maria Sartzetaki
A young Egyptian artist and dancer contemplates her craft and future after spending a year in the Ontario suburbs.
Supernatural Selection (2016) | Director's Cut | Short Film
Directed bySara Jade Alfaro & Maria Sartzetaki
Produced by Sara Jade Alfaro & Maria Sartzetaki
A young woman prepares to face a monster.
Silent Short created for a 1 Minute film festival.
Screened at TUFF 2016, nominated under category "Walking Nightmares".
Dancing Girls (2014) | webseries
Directed by Sara Jade Alfaro & Charlotte Delon
Produced by Sara Jade Alfaro & Charlotte Delon
Two Greek-Canadian sisters nervously anticipate and speculate about their freshly visiting French cousin, and grapple with a couple of cultural differences.
Funded by TVM Student Television at McGill and screened at the FOKUS Film Festival
Sara Jade Alfaro | In Development
I Can't Said the Ant | Short film
Directed by Sara Jade Alfaro
Produced by Rebeca Ortiz & Colin Walker
When a teapot falls off of the kitchen counter, a household full of objects spirals into disarray, unable to help her up. Their only hope is a solitary ant who crawls into the room, completely unsuspecting the journey ahead...
Based on Polly Cameron's 1961 children's book I Can't Said the Ant
"...is she dead?"
asked the bread
"...she's gonna die!"
said the fly
"how bleak!"
said the leek
"how could this happen, my poor teapot?"
she rolled over and murmured,
"the tea was too hot."
Sara Jade Alfaro | Creative Collaborations
Liberation 75 (2020) | Short documentary
dir. Dominique Van Olm
Produced by Sara Alfaro
75 years since the end of WW2, ‘Liberation 75’, explores how the world is shaped by crises and events that unfold around each generation through the experiences of five holocaust survivors as they revisit their past and look towards a brighter future.
