Sandra Oh stars alongside up-and-comers Keira Jang and Joel Oulette in a Canadian Filmmaker Ann Marie Fleming’s Can I Get a Witness? a sci-fi fable set in the post-apocalyptic future as result of climate change where people must end their lives at 50. This has resulted in world free poverty and inequality.
It’s Kiah’s (Jang’s) first day on the job. Without cameras or electronic devices available, Kiah has to draw the EOL (end of life) protocols. Her mentor (Oulette) is a young man whose personal history makes him wise beyond his years.
Veteran Sandra Oh plays Kiah’s mother, who is Kiah’s moral compass. She guides her daughter to understand the historical past that has brought them to the present reality as she grapples with understanding and accepting want is to come. How she deals with her out feelings and emotions to where the world has come and how she helps here daughter understand is what makes this film a plausible science future.
The film is written and directed by Vancouver’s Ann Marie Fleming (Window Horses), partially inspired by 2006’s windstorm that devastated governments could work together when we are all living the same thing at the same time.
Unlike Logan’s Run a 1976 high budget science fiction film known for its lavish visual effects. The effect of this film is its cinematography gives a very surreal and melancholy feel to the film with illustrations coming to life through animation that’s sprinkled throughout the film. Being mindful of climate change, the production used real dishes and reusable water bottles, which helped keep over 180,000 items out of the landfill.
Shot among the lush foliage and waterways of BC’s eco-conscious Powell River, the film is a Canadian production, produced by Fleming, Raymond Massey, Ruth Vincent and Sandra Oh as executive producer.