SLAXX tells the story of a possessed pair of jeans brought to life to punish the unscrupulous practices of a trendy, uber self-righteous clothing company, Canadian Cotton Clothiers (CCC). At the company’s flagship store, the gung-ho staff are pulling an all-nighter under tight security to set up the new collection. With the brass on site and a mega-influencer arriving to promote the launch, a salesgirl wearing the jeans finally discovers what a true Size 0 waist means. As the body count mounts, panicked staff scatter and the struggle for survival begins. It is up to idealistic employee, Libby, to uncover the reason behind SLAXX’s blood thirst before its evil is released into the world.
Elza Kephart writes and directs horror and fantasy films. She holds a BFA from Emerson College and the Canadian Film Center’s Director’s Lab. At 24, she wrote and directed her first feature, Graveyard Alive. It played in over 20 international film festivals including Fantasia, Fantasporto and Sitges, winning the Kodak Cinematography Award at the Slamdance Film Festival.
Her second feature film, Go in the Wilderness, premiered at the Festival du Nouveau Cinema, and is being distributed on various platforms, including itunes. Her third feature, SLAXX, produced by EMA Films (Turbo Kid), had its World Premiere at the Fantasia International Film Festival, where it won the Audience Award for Best Canadian Feature, and its International Premiere at the Sitges International Film Festival.
Elza has obtained development financing for feature projects Brothers in Arms, Chair Obscure, Le fantôme de la Libération, Night of the Pendulum and Sweet Blood. Sweet Blood was selected to the Frontières Market, the Torino SeriesLab, and pitched at Series Mania (Paris).
Elza has attended the TIFF Talent Lab, the Berlinale Talent Campus, and the Telluride Student Symposium and has been a panelist for Fantasia, Film Fatales, WIFT, and From our Dark Side. She is one of the co-founders of the Montreal chapter of Film Fatales, and one of the co-founders of Extinction Rebellion Québec.
