Name of Film: The Purgamentum

Director: Julie Bruns, Steven Kammerer and Major
Director’s Bio: Julie Bruns is driven to bring stories to life that leave an impact and keep audiences thinking long after the credits roll. She has lived all over North America, went to theatre school in London, UK, and you'll usually find her writing, re-writing or skulking around a set somewhere.
Steven Kammerer is a filmmaker based in Vancouver, Canada. He has written and directed several short films and is currently working on his first feature.
His short film "Ada" has screened around the world, pulling in a Best Performance Award at the Assurdo Film Festival in Milan, Italy and was the Platinum Award Winner for the Best Actor Award New York.
He won the Best Director award as co-director of the eco-horror film "The Purgamentum" at Vancouver's 48-Hour Run 'n Gun festival in October 2020.

The Purgamentum is Major's directorial debut. He is currently producing the indie feature Outrunners. Among many other things, he is also an actor, production designer, and accomplished diver.

Director of Photography: Marc Yungco
Screenwriter: Julie Bruns, Steven Kammerer and Major

Short Synopsis:
A dark tale of retali-ocean.
Amy (Julie Bruns), a marine biologist stationed in a remote float house on the rugged Pacific Northwest coast, is chilled when disturbing sounds begin to whisper through her underwater microphone. She calls in the help of Stan (Major), an underwater technician, to try to understand what may be causing it, but what lurks underneath is no easy fix.


Why did you choose to explore this topic?
Horror offers such a brilliant lens through which to tell stories, as it infuses its subject with such a sense of suspense and dread. This feels doubly true for stories about our ecological crisis: minimized and ignored for far too long, its true urgency flashes starkly before us in a horror setting. By creating a literal trash monster in this film, we got to bring an eerie sense of awareness to the real horror coming.
Where has it screened:
Foggy Isle Film Festival
Blood in the Snow
iHorror Film Fest
Ethereal Horror Fest
Hellifax Horror Fest
Austin After Dark Film Festival
Vancouver Badass Film Festival

Your Youtube Channel/Social Medial Links:
X: @ThatJulieBruns
Instagram: @julie.bruns - @stevekammerer - @majoractor