Canadian filmmaker Desiree Lim will sit down in front of our camera on Nov. 7th for an interview, however, the day before her film The House will be screened in Vancouver. So we decided to have her tell you about the film as an introduction to the forthcoming interview and to promote the screening.
What is “The House” about and how did the idea for your film develop?
“The House” is a psychological drama about a former Wall Street banker returning home after quitting her coveted career in New York and is at a crossroads in her life. She retreats to an empty vacation home to write a travelogue but gets caught in an entangled mass of secrets and lies of the ghosts that haunt the house. “The House” is not a conventional ghost story but a character-driven ensemble film about lost souls, both alive and dead, psychologically and spiritually trapped in a confined space but separated by self-imposed isolation – all of them needing to find a way out.
The main character in the film was inspired by an actual former Wall Street banker turned journalist Nomi Prins – whom I got to know through a TV show I was working on when I invited her as a guest on the show. For a while, I’ve had this seed concept for a story about a woman trapped in a house with some ghosts and they start having meaningful relationships with each other despite their separate realities, and I sort of combined this concept and the story inspired by Nomi’s experience – who chose to walk away from Wall Street because of the corporate corruption, political collusion and deception in that world.
The House will be screened at The Vancouver Asian Film Festival on Nov. 6th @ 5:00PM. For more information about the festival and to purchase tickets visit their website: VAFF
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