Jessica Lauren Doucet’s Hellmark part of Crazy8’s 2023 roster of searching, surreal short films
When: April 15, 7-9:30 p.m.
Where: The Centre, 777 Homer St., Vancouver
Tickets: $40 at Eventbrite.ca
A whole industry has grown up around Hallmark movies in Canada, especially in B.C. So it’s only fitting that a local filmmaker has decided to satirize the kind of anodyne, holiday-themed romances that have become a genre unto themselves.