Cat Sitters
About the Film
Four friends reunite to watch scary movies while cat sitting, but an unexplained power outage and the nagging suspicion that they’re not alone threatens to kill the vibe. One thing’s for sure: they aren’t splitting up. Cat Sitters is a queer comedy-horror that celebrates queer friendship, plot twists and a gorgeous hissy cat.
Director: Claren Grosz
Producers: Claren Grosz and Margarita Valderrama
Canada // 2024 // Comedy, Horror // LOLA Award Nominee - Los Shorts
11 minutes
About the Filmmaker
Claren Grosz is a queer Canadian director, visual artist and writer. Originally hailing from Calgary, she currently lives in Toronto where she is the Artistic Director of Pencil Kit Productions, a company dedicated to generating new work for stage and screen. Her directing practice focuses on visually compelling work and collaborative, alternative creating processes exploring all that is strange, novel, chewy, and magic. She is the recipient of the 2018 Ken MacDougall Emerging Director Award and the 2015 My Entertainment World Outstanding Direction (Small Theatre) Award. She was nominated for the 2023 Dora Mavor Moore Award for outstanding projection design for her autobiographical solo show, I love the smell of gasoline (Nightwood Theatre, 2023). Her first illustrated chapbook of poetry, starting with the roof of my mouth, was published by Gap Riot Press (2022).
Cat Sitters is Claren's film directorial debut. She is an experienced director for the stage, some favourite past projects including Reina (Buddies in Bad Times, PKP, 2025); I love the smell of gasoline (Expanse Festival 2025; Nightwood Theatre, PKP, 2023; RUTAS Festival 2022); CHICHO (Theatre Passe Muraille, PKP 2019); Shadow Girls (Gladstone Hotel x PKP, 2018; Rhubarb Festival 2017).
www.claren.ca
