David Ehrenreich

Twenty-five long years after his time in the limelight, former child actor Cody Lightning tries to revive his fortunes with a self-produced sequel to Smoke Signals in this smart, irreverent new comedy.

7y98D is a reference to The Climate Clock, a public art installation in New York City, created by artists Gan Golan and Andrew Boyd. The clock counts down the time we have left to avoid climate disaster. OURO Collective became aware of the Climate Clock when the time remaining was 7 years and 98 Days. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, we must reduce global greenhouse gas emissions within this critical time window to prevent irreversible damage to the planet.

"We wanted to tell a story with a woman we love,” say directors Cassandra Surina and David Ehrenreich. “A true outlier wherever she calls home.” Graphic designer Asami Tsukada is a Japanese expat living in Canada. She has lived half of her life in Tokyo and the other half in Vancouver, but has found “community and isolation, acceptance and discrimination in both cultures equally.