Tyler Dolden

Bumbershoot is a silent comedy about a hapless man desperate to find an umbrella strong enough to make his life whole.

An actor living, working, and loving in Vancouver, BC has to deal with personal issues of identity while trying to resist being ground down in the field of film. Working as a background actor through most of his career, Alex begins to wonder if he's made the right choices in life. A non-linear film that explores the issue of how identity is made up as a set of masks.

Set in the fictional town of Merinac, a generations-old rift between dueling fried chicken restaurants — Mimi’s and Frannie’s — has left the founders’ families fractured and the locals taking sides. When popular cooking competition show Kitchen Clash comes to town, this could be the recipe for ending this feud once and for all. But things are fixing to heat up both inside and outside of the kitchen as the reality show spotlight causes sparks to fly as secrets are spilled and feathers get ruffled.