The County Fair controversy

Short film The Company Card, written and directed by Revolver Films' Myles Hodder, has already made an impression on the festival circuit, and now it's available for all to see.

Starring Laura Ramoso as Sandra, Tommy Marshall as Ron, and Rodrigo Fernandez-Stoll as Terry, who seems to be channeling Christian Bale's character from American Hustle, the five minute film centres around a questionable charge that appears on the company credit card. Terry suspects his employee Sandra may be behind it, causing an otherwise routine meeting to quickly descend into chaos.,

The Company Card started with a simple idea: the corporate mask we put on at work, and what happens when it starts to crack, and what began as a 30-second commercial reel bit quickly became something bigger. 

“I think there’s something really funny about the way people behave in an office when they’re trying to maintain a professional image,” says Hodder. “You can have a completely normal meeting, but underneath it, everyone has their own little agenda.”

The film took home the Audience Choice Award at the 50/50 Comedy Festival in West Hollywood, before making its Canadian Premiere at Fantasia Festival in Montreal, and brings together a Toronto-based cast and crew for a sharp, character-driven comedy about workplace dynamics, suspicion, and the absurdity that can hide beneath an ordinary meeting.