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Cardiac Hill

John Canfield
United States, 2023, 20 min.

In English.
Includes violence and adult language.

A girl in high school receives a heart transplant, and she starts to take on the darkest qualities of her donor.

Director's Statement

This journey started when I suddenly experienced a medical emergency. I felt an incredible wave of dizziness, nausea, and brain fog that would not go away. With me essentially bed-ridden in the meantime, it took specialists 3 years to find the issue - a rare disease where the bones in my inner ear were disintegrating. To resolve it, I had to have both brain and inner ear surgery, then spent another 3 years dealing with the PTSD of the experience. Instead of lamenting the time lost, I wanted to make something positive out of my experience, and Cardiac Hill was born.

Category: Short.

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