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SUPER-ANON (Comedy Mockumentary, 10 minutes)

There's a group of people overlooked by the media, who have an amazing story to tell. Downtrodden and ignored, they wrestle with all the problems of living in the shadow of a greater sibling, multiplied by the need to keep a deep secret. These are the members of Super-Anon, the support group for family relatives of superheroes. And this is their story.

Beginning with intimate interviews and actual footage of a Super-Anon session, we follow the group as it goes through several kinds of therapy, in the quest for hope and meaning.

Super-Anon was a ReelFast 48 hour film.

Filmmaking teams were given five items in an "inspiration package" and, using that, had to write, shoot, edit, and deliver a ten minute film exactly two days later.

The package included a sound byte, a location, a photograph, a surprise item, and a craft services donation.

We were given four bells, a playground, a photo of a horse in a hat, a paper clip remover, and a bag of chips, all of which appear in the film.

The film was never scripted, with only a sketch of a scene order on the back of the director's grocery list as a guide for the nine improv actors.

SuperAnon was voted the Best Film at the ReelFast awards gala. It also won Best Achievement by an Ensemble, and took second place in the Audience Choice category, out of 79 entries.

SuperAnon has since gone on to appear in well over three dozen film festivals worldwide, was screened at the Montreal Just For Laughs festival, and has won nine additional awards.

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