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Attack of the Brainsucker

Pray he doesn’t get inside your head! Samantha, a little girl growing up in the sixties, loves classic b-movies and monsters. That is, until they start to invade her bedroom and her obsession compels her parents to seek help from the latest scientific breakthrough.

  • Canada
  • 2012, 14 min
  • Director: Sid Zanforlin
  • Director of photography: Bobby Shore
  • Editor: Alexandre Mailhot
  • Screenplay: Sid Zanforlin, Chris Bavota
  • Music: Michael Plowman
  • Cast: Keyanna Fielding, Alex Weiner, Arthur Holden, Janine Theriault, Neill Napier
  • Producer: Martin Henri, Marie-Claire Lalonde


Sid Zanforlin

Sid Zanforlin is a Chilean Canadian that grew up in Montreal. Since graduating from Concordia University and the Canadian Film Centre, he has directed numerous shorts, theatre productions, music videos and kid’s television. He also spent six years in Vancouver as a cameraman on various Hollywood productions. Sid has won a Mecca award for Theatrical Revelation of the season for the play Jesus Hopped the A Train and has been nominated for a Banff Television award for Best Children’s program (Prank Patrol). He is currently developing his first feature Pork Chop and his television show Studio 2.
Concurrently, for the last fifteen years Sid Zanforlin has also been writing, producing and playing music with bands such as Me Mom and Morgentaler, Jerome Miniere and his new band Creature on Universal Music.