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THE BIG 1-0
17 minutes
Lindsey Connell ~ director/co-producer
Vanessa Shrimpton ~ co-producer

Morris, a thief who hasn’t seen his daughter Erin in two years, steals a television and paints it pink to surprise her on her tenth birthday. His friend Sandy, an erratic man prone to violence, comes along for the ride. When they arrive at Erin’s, they find she’s transformed into a moody girl all dressed in black—and she hates pink. Morris has to win her back. Sandy comes up with an idea. A surprise. Now if only Erin will go along with the ruse, Morris can redeem himself and buy back the years he’s missed with his daughter.

Submitted by WIFT-T Member Lindsey Connell.

A graduate of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts and an actor since she was nine, Lindsey has worked in theatre, television, and film with directors Paul Schrader (Forever Mine), Ron Howard (Cinderella Man), Craig Gillespie (Lars and the Real Girl), and Sam Rubinek (Jerry and Tom). Among her television credits, she has been featured on MVP, Murdoch Mysteries, Forever Knight, and Nikita, with reoccurring characters on CBC’s Black Harbour and Showtime’s Queer as Folk.

In 2007, Lindsey was selected for a Praxis Fellowship for her screenplay Shadows and the Man, which was also a Nicholl Fellowship Quarterfinalist. Her script The Bridge (renamed The Big 1-0) was the screenplay giveaway winner at the Worldwide Short Film Festival for 2007. Once completed, The Big 1-0 won Best Canadian short film at the Atlantic Film Festival, 2009. She is currently in post production on another short, Bare Knuckle Duet, and is developing two feature scripts, Views from a Crane and Shadows and the Man. Lindsey lives in Toronto.

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