Final Chapter

Team members in the making: from left to right, Vanessa Burns, Doug Chapman,

Peter Reynolds, Mona Waserman, Jorge Luis Morejon, and Nick Vitacco (center)

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Jorge Luis Morejon was a member of Final Chapter, a short film which was submitted to the 24 HR Toronto Film Challenge, the Spring of 2007. The 24 HR Toronto Film Challenge takes place once a year, and it invites filmmakers to write, produce and direct a film in twenty four hours. For the filmmakers who participate, the challenge implies overcoming technical obstacles and writing a good story to tell as they integrate the challenge pack shooting guerrilla style. In producer Chantal Leblanc-Everett's own words, "this is by far one of the most industrious festivals in existence." The challenge package for year 2007 was Do It Yourself as the theme, Doc/Mock as a genre, a coloured paint swatch for a prop and "Famous last words" for a line. Fingers Crossed Productions, the team that produced Final Chapter for the festival described their film as a "short-subject documentary , investigating the do-it-yourself alternative to commercial funeral homes and the controversy surrounding author Linda Lewis." The Fingers Crossed team was integrated by director Peter Reynolds, producer and actress Mona Waserman as Linda, actors Vanessa Burns and Doug Chapman as the couple, actor Jorge Luis Morejon as the funeral director, and Nick Vitacco as the corpse. The team was satisfied to witness that, out of 27 films, Final Chapter's humor was welcomed with continuos waves of laughter by the sympathetic festival audience.