Hi, this is Daniel Garber at the Movies for culturalmining.com and CIUT 89.5 FM.

Jane is a 40 year old, middle-class, married woman, who is suffering from an unidentified illness. She’s feeling cold and uncomfortable. her skin is palid, her nails are brittle and food just doesn’t taste right anymore. Even simple things are hard to do. When she stretches for yoga her bones seem to crack. But when she asks her friends, her husband or her doctor, about what’s going on…they all seem to think it’s that change in life that all women go through. But what no one realizes is,  it’s not her feelings, it’s not a change in life, it’s her lack of life… she’s dead! Literally. Maybe that’s why she feels so cold.

Cold is a dark and eerie look at one woman’s body told through the lens of  of a comic horror movie. It’s also about the diminution of women’s health concerns, and the gaslighting of legitimate problems. It’s funny, spooky and very weird.  It’s the work of multi-award-winning Toronto-based producer/writer/director Liz Whitmere, whose work has been seen on CBC, CBC Gem and at the Whistler Film Festival.  Multi-talented, she’s also known for her acting and standup comedy.

Cold is having its world premiere on November 25th at Isabel Bader theatre in Toronto as part of the Mournful Mediums program at Blood in the Snow (a.k.a. BITS) the Canadian Horror film festival.

I spoke with Liz Whitmere in Toronto via Zoom.