Kerry Gamberg
Production
Biography
Kerry Gamberg is a multi award winning Director, Writer, Producer and Fixer based in St. John's, Canada. In 2017, Kerry was the recipient of the RBC Michelle Jackson Emerging Filmmaker Award for her script CRUSH, as well as the NIFCO Picture Start 11 Program for her award winning script ASKIN' FOR IT. Both short films went into production in the spring of 2018, with Kerry as the Director. ASKIN' FOR IT, Kerry's first short, premiered at FINN (Aug 2018) in Halifax, Canada. To date, it has garnered multiple awards, nominations and critical acclaim at various festivals. ASKIN' FOR IT will continue on the festival circuit through 2019, while being developed into a feature film, with the production goal of Fall 2019. Kerry's second short, CRUSH, premiered at the closing night gala of the 29th St. John's International Women's Film Festival (Oct 2018), and has since won multiple awards at various competitions. CRUSH will continue on the festival circuit through 2019.
Known For

An insecure up-and-coming pianist fights to replace her injured childhood idol as the lead soloist at the most prestigious orchestra in the country.
Poster Child

A hack filmmaker wastes the money lent to him by a mysterious organization, and so has to take matters into his own hands by locking a cast of actors in a house and becoming the villain in his own slasher movie.
Incredible Violence

A whisper among the sprawling forests and mill towns of central Newfoundland. A body found on the side of a river brings together a reclusive fur trapper and a heartsick mother-to-be. Scott is lonely and desperate to give himself meaning. Mona is strong-willed, but frustrated by her fragility. As a reluctant dependence blossoms the pair find themselves wading into violence, answering for the debts of a dead man. Stalked by outlaws, they plan an exit.
A Fire in the Cold Season

When a rising-star chef known for his signature use of garlic is bitten by a vampire, he must learn to reinvent himself in time for the most important review of his career.
Oliver

Casey's mother ensures her daughter receives the education, protection, and loving care little girls need. But an altercation with some local schoolgirls reveals that Casey's life is based on a lie.
Casey

The Hatching Matching and Dispatching story continues in A Christmas Fury - an outrageously funny TV movie with unexpected heart.
A Christmas Fury

Phillip Early recounts the months spent investigating a cold case. A police interrogator presses him for answers while trying to decode the role of a retired detective/successful author in the mystery.
If Not to Die

When a boy from Darcy's cadet corps insists she attend the Trampoline Social, she sets off for a dramatic evening of self-acceptance and sweet backflips.
Bounce

A young women craving attention in her relationship, finds a lump in her breast.
Malignant
Karen attempts to grapple with the fleeting nature of romance through filmmaking, only to run into conflict with her surrounding cast and crew. You can try to make art imitate life, but it doesn't necessarily make life any easier.
Waste It
ASKIN' FOR IT follows three ride-or-die high school BFFs as they face the issue of assault head on.
Askin' For It

When a single mom, facing eviction, is offered a night’s work, she unsuccessfully seeks a babysitter for her two small children. Desperate, she reaches out to the last person she wants to ask for a favour.
Touch
Two actors bemoan the standard roles for women in film.
Witchy Prostitute Number Three

An elderly woman recounts the disturbing history of mummering in 1920s Newfoundland. Eve witnesses a murder; her only escape is into the woods as a darker truth comes to light.
Mummering Legends

While dealing with the aftermath of escaping an abusive relationship, Heather starts to believe there is a vampiric shape shifting creature trying to trick her into getting inside her home. Memories of witnessing a traumatic event years ago involving the same creature come flooding back after she is mysteriously gifted the creatures calling card - a smooth stone engraved with a strange symbol. With the help of a supportive friend, Heather must finally confront her demons in the form of the monster that is haunting her, and summon her inner strength to finally defeat it.
Don't Let Them In

After an assault, Elena comes head on with her grief as the subject comes up at a dinner party. Things become more complicated when Oranges start appearing everywhere and only the women can see them. Facing disbelief from the men on the existence of the Oranges and of the assault, the women must come together and take a stand for the truth.
Oranges

The new kid at school stands up to the bully with the help of a mysterious girl.
Crush

Ida Here and There is an inside out fairytale.