TEAM:
The team combines award-winning filmmaking, feature production experience and senior brand expertise across production, positioning and audience strategy.
SHARAI REWELS
Writer/Director
Award-winning writer/director Sharai Rewels is a bold genre filmmaker with a track record for creating ambitious, highly stylized work. Winner of the Canon Hi5 Film Challenge at Whistler Film Festival for Binary Lullaby, she most recently directed the acclaimed proof-of-concept Tiger by the Tail, starring Tasya Teles, Juan Riedinger, Hannah Levien and Gigi Saul Guerrero, which screened at Morbido, Blood in the Snow and Vancouver Short Film Festival. Her work blends psychological intensity, striking visual worlds and unapologetically female-driven storytelling.
DAN BARHAM
Director of Photography
Leo Award-nominated cinematographer and Associate Member of the Canadian Society of Cinematographers, Dan Barham brings an exacting cinematic eye across narrative, commercial and documentary work. His portfolio spans campaigns and projects for Apple, National Geographic, Google, Discovery, A&E, Nintendo, TELUS and McDonald’s, alongside narrative filmmaking. Dan previously shot Rewels’ Tiger by the Tail, giving the team an established visual shorthand and proven creative partnership.
KATE KROLL
Producer
Award-winning producer and CMPA Kevin Tierney Emerging Producer Award recipient, Kate Kroll brings more than 15 years of scripted and unscripted production experience. Her feature Portraits from a Fire received a 33-screen Canadian theatrical release and distribution through Crave/Photon Films; her credits span CTV, CBC Gem, Super Channel and Vision TV, with work screening at TIFF, VIFF and imagineNATIVE. Through Black Moon Media, Kate also produces projects backed by Telefilm Canada, levelFILM, and Raven Banner.
RYAN TOMKINSON
Executive Producer/Creative Director
Creative Director and multidisciplinary designer Ryan Tomkinson brings 20+ years of experience in brand development, graphic, product and spatial design, with collaborations including Levi’s Canada, Nintendo, Sanyo and a body of internationally installed design work. As an Executive Producer and investor, Ryan brings a rare combination of creative and commercial thinking to the film, shaping its brand identity, graphic direction and marketing strategy from development through release.
SHARAI REWELS
Writer/Director
Award-winning writer/director Sharai Rewels is a bold genre filmmaker with a track record for creating ambitious, highly stylized work. Winner of the Canon Hi5 Film Challenge at Whistler Film Festival for Binary Lullaby, she most recently directed the acclaimed proof-of-concept Tiger by the Tail, starring Tasya Teles, Juan Riedinger, Hannah Levien and Gigi Saul Guerrero, which screened at Morbido, Blood in the Snow and Vancouver Short Film Festival. Her work blends psychological intensity, striking visual worlds and unapologetically female-driven storytelling.
DAN BARHAM
Director of Photography
Leo Award-nominated cinematographer and Associate Member of the Canadian Society of Cinematographers, Dan Barham brings an exacting cinematic eye across narrative, commercial and documentary work. His portfolio spans campaigns and projects for Apple, National Geographic, Google, Discovery, A&E, Nintendo, TELUS and McDonald’s, alongside narrative filmmaking. Dan previously shot Rewels’ Tiger by the Tail, giving the team an established visual shorthand and proven creative partnership.
KATE KROLL
Producer
Award-winning producer and CMPA Kevin Tierney Emerging Producer Award recipient, Kate Kroll brings more than 15 years of scripted and unscripted production experience. Her feature Portraits from a Fire received a 33-screen Canadian theatrical release and distribution through Crave/Photon Films; her credits span CTV, CBC Gem, Super Channel and Vision TV, with work screening at TIFF, VIFF and imagineNATIVE. Through Black Moon Media, Kate also produces projects backed by Telefilm Canada, levelFILM, and Raven Banner.
TEAM:
The team combines award-winning filmmaking, feature production experience and senior brand expertise across production, positioning and audience strategy.
RYAN TOMKINSON
Executive Producer/Creative Director
Creative Director and multidisciplinary designer Ryan Tomkinson brings 20+ years of experience in brand development, graphic, product and spatial design, with collaborations including Levi’s Canada, Nintendo, Sanyo and a body of internationally installed design work. As an Executive Producer and investor, Ryan brings a rare combination of creative and commercial thinking to the film, shaping its brand identity, graphic direction and marketing strategy from development through release.
Psychological Horror
Feature Film | 89 min.
Written & Directed by S.Rewels
Psychological Horror
Feature Film | 89 min.
Written & Directed by S.Rewels
Psychological Horror
Feature Film | 89 min.
Written & Directed by S.Rewels
Psychological Horror
Feature Film | 89 min.
Written & Directed by S.Rewels
THE OFFICE ISN’T MERELY HAUNTED, ETCETERA IS. THE IDEAS GENERATED HOLD PSYCHIC CODING THAT ALLOWS THE DEMONIC ENTITIES TO ATTACH AND FEED ON fear, pain AND CONFORMITY.
CONFIRM HUMANITY is a contained psychological horror film about dissociation, corporate obedience and the terrifying cost of surviving by switching yourself off. The film begins with recognizable workplace anxiety that steadily mutates the office itself into a predatory supernatural system.
THE OFFICE ISN’T MERELY HAUNTED, ETCETERA IS. THE IDEAS GENERATED HOLD PSYCHIC CODING THAT ALLOWS THE DEMONIC ENTITIES TO ATTACH AND FEED ON fear, pain AND CONFORMITY.
CONFIRM HUMANITY is a contained psychological horror film about dissociation, corporate obedience and the terrifying cost of surviving by switching yourself off. The film begins with recognizable workplace anxiety that steadily mutates the office itself into a predatory supernatural system.
Logline:
After witnessing a traumatic workplace tragedy, Maja must survive a psychological and spiritual war against a demonic egregore that feeds on conformity and manifests her worst PTSD symptoms as physical apparitions.
Synopsis
After discovering four coworkers dead in a staged mass suicide at Etcetera Corp., the advertising agency where she works, copywriter Maja Ainsley is left with a trauma no one can explain. As she attempts to return to work, her reality begins to fracture: demonic figures appear in the office, her therapist is exposed as a fraud, her best friend disappears, and the company’s polished facade begins to crack.
Maja discovers the deaths were part of something deliberate. Her CEO, Jerrica Pierce, has been feeding a parasitic entity known as an Egregore, cultivating human trauma to keep it alive. As Maja is manipulated, exploited, and pushed toward psychological collapse, she realizes the only thing the entity cannot control is her rage.
When the Egregore finally reveals itself, Maja refuses its offer to join it. She kills Jerrica, takes control of her own life, and walks away with a fortune stolen from the man who betrayed her. But the Egregore survives. When Maja's missing friend calls, it becomes clear that it has already found another way in.
Synopsis
After discovering four coworkers dead in a staged mass suicide at Etcetera Corp., the advertising agency where she works, copywriter Maja Ainsley is left with a trauma no one can explain. As she attempts to return to work, her reality begins to fracture: demonic figures appear in the office, her therapist is exposed as a fraud, her best friend disappears, and the company’s polished facade begins to crack.
Maja discovers the deaths were part of something deliberate. Her CEO, Jerrica Pierce, has been feeding a parasitic entity known as an Egregore, cultivating human trauma to keep it alive. As Maja is manipulated, exploited, and pushed toward psychological collapse, she realizes the only thing the entity cannot control is her rage.
When the Egregore finally reveals itself, Maja refuses its offer to join it. She kills Jerrica, takes control of her own life, and walks away with a fortune stolen from the man who betrayed her. But the Egregore survives. When Maja's missing friend calls, it becomes clear that it has already found another way in.
Logline:
After witnessing a traumatic workplace tragedy, Maja must survive a psychological and spiritual war against a demonic egregore that feeds on conformity and manifests her worst PTSD symptoms as physical apparitions.
Synopsis
After discovering four coworkers dead in a staged mass suicide at Etcetera Corp., the advertising agency where she works, copywriter Maja Ainsley is left with a trauma no one can explain. As she attempts to return to work, her reality begins to fracture: demonic figures appear in the office, her therapist is exposed as a fraud, her best friend disappears, and the company’s polished facade begins to crack.
Maja discovers the deaths were part of something deliberate. Her CEO, Jerrica Pierce, has been feeding a parasitic entity known as an Egregore, cultivating human trauma to keep it alive. As Maja is manipulated, exploited, and pushed toward psychological collapse, she realizes the only thing the entity cannot control is her rage.
When the Egregore finally reveals itself, Maja refuses its offer to join it. She kills Jerrica, takes control of her own life, and walks away with a fortune stolen from the man who betrayed her. But the Egregore survives. When Maja's missing friend calls, it becomes clear that it has already found another way in.
Synopsis
After discovering four coworkers dead in a staged mass suicide at Etcetera Corp., the advertising agency where she works, copywriter Maja Ainsley is left with a trauma no one can explain. As she attempts to return to work, her reality begins to fracture: demonic figures appear in the office, her therapist is exposed as a fraud, her best friend disappears, and the company’s polished facade begins to crack.
Maja discovers the deaths were part of something deliberate. Her CEO, Jerrica Pierce, has been feeding a parasitic entity known as an Egregore, cultivating human trauma to keep it alive. As Maja is manipulated, exploited, and pushed toward psychological collapse, she realizes the only thing the entity cannot control is her rage.
When the Egregore finally reveals itself, Maja refuses its offer to join it. She kills Jerrica, takes control of her own life, and walks away with a fortune stolen from the man who betrayed her. But the Egregore survives. When Maja's missing friend calls, it becomes clear that it has already found another way in.
WHY THIS
Confirm Humanity explores how modern corporate structures can mirror abusive, inescapable environments and systems that demand compliance in exchange for the illusion of security.
The slow erosion of identity. The daily trade of self for stability. The creeping realization that surviving within the system may require surrendering something essential.
Our protagonist Maja must find the strength to break the collective contract of the entity, knowing that choosing to see the truth may mean losing her livelihood to save her soul.
WHY NOW
Corporate horror is an under-explored genre primed for a breakout. Confirm Humanity taps into an anxiety that already feels deeply familiar: growing distrust of corporations and the systems that increasingly shape our lives.
AI threatens to replace human labour. Record profits arrive alongside layoffs. Workers are reduced to metrics, data and productivity. The message is becoming impossible to ignore: within the corporate machine, people are expendable.
That fear crosses generations, but younger audiences are increasingly rejecting the promise that these systems were built for their benefit. They’re questioning the rules, calling out the hypocrisy and pushing back against a culture that puts profit before people.
Confirm Humanity doesn’t need to invent a new fear. It simply takes one we already have and makes it horrifyingly literal.
WHY THIS
Confirm Humanity explores how modern corporate structures can mirror abusive, inescapable environments and systems that demand compliance in exchange for the illusion of security.
The slow erosion of identity. The daily trade of self for stability. The creeping realization that surviving within the system may require surrendering something essential.
Our protagonist Maja must find the strength to break the collective contract of the entity, knowing that choosing to see the truth may mean losing her livelihood to save her soul.
WHY NOW
Corporate horror is an under-explored genre primed for a breakout. Confirm Humanity taps into an anxiety that already feels deeply familiar: growing distrust of corporations and the systems that increasingly shape our lives.
AI threatens to replace human labour. Record profits arrive alongside layoffs. Workers are reduced to metrics, data and productivity. The message is becoming impossible to ignore: within the corporate machine, people are expendable.
That fear crosses generations, but younger audiences are increasingly rejecting the promise that these systems were built for their benefit. They’re questioning the rules, calling out the hypocrisy and pushing back against a culture that puts profit before people.
Confirm Humanity doesn’t need to invent a new fear. It simply takes one we already have and makes it horrifyingly literal.
TEAM:
The team combines award-winning filmmaking, feature production experience and senior brand expertise across production, positioning and audience strategy.
SHARAI REWELS
Writer/Director
Award-winning writer/director Sharai Rewels is a bold genre filmmaker with a track record for creating ambitious, highly stylized work. Winner of the Canon Hi5 Film Challenge at Whistler Film Festival for Binary Lullaby, she most recently directed the acclaimed proof-of-concept Tiger by the Tail, starring Tasya Teles, Juan Riedinger, Hannah Levien and Gigi Saul Guerrero, which screened at Morbido, Blood in the Snow and Vancouver Short Film Festival. Her work blends psychological intensity, striking visual worlds and unapologetically female-driven storytelling.
DAN BARHAM
Director of Photography
Leo Award-nominated cinematographer and Associate Member of the Canadian Society of Cinematographers, Dan Barham brings an exacting cinematic eye across narrative, commercial and documentary work. His portfolio spans campaigns and projects for Apple, National Geographic, Google, Discovery, A&E, Nintendo, TELUS and McDonald’s, alongside narrative filmmaking. Dan previously shot Rewels’ Tiger by the Tail, giving the team an established visual shorthand and proven creative partnership.
KATE KROLL
Producer
Award-winning producer and CMPA Kevin Tierney Emerging Producer Award recipient, Kate Kroll brings more than 15 years of scripted and unscripted production experience. Her feature Portraits from a Fire received a 33-screen Canadian theatrical release and distribution through Crave/Photon Films; her credits span CTV, CBC Gem, Super Channel and Vision TV, with work screening at TIFF, VIFF and imagineNATIVE. Through Black Moon Media, Kate also produces projects backed by Telefilm Canada, levelFILM, and Raven Banner.
RYAN TOMKINSON
Executive Producer / Creative Director
Creative Director and multidisciplinary designer Ryan Tomkinson brings 20+ years of experience in brand development, graphic, product and spatial design, with collaborations including Levi’s Canada, Nintendo, Sanyo and a body of internationally installed design work. As an Executive Producer and investor, Ryan brings a rare combination of creative and commercial thinking to the film, shaping its brand identity, graphic direction and marketing strategy from development through release.
SHARAI REWELS
Writer/Director
Award-winning writer/director Sharai Rewels is a bold genre filmmaker with a track record for creating ambitious, highly stylized work. Winner of the Canon Hi5 Film Challenge at Whistler Film Festival for Binary Lullaby, she most recently directed the acclaimed proof-of-concept Tiger by the Tail, starring Tasya Teles, Juan Riedinger, Hannah Levien and Gigi Saul Guerrero, which screened at Morbido, Blood in the Snow and Vancouver Short Film Festival. Her work blends psychological intensity, striking visual worlds and unapologetically female-driven storytelling.
THE OFFICE ISN’T MERELY HAUNTED, ETCETERA IS. THE IDEAS GENERATED HOLD PSYCHIC CODING THAT ALLOWS THE DEMONIC ENTITIES TO ATTACH AND FEED ON fear, pain AND CONFORMITY.
CONFIRM HUMANITY is a contained psychological horror film about dissociation, corporate obedience and the terrifying cost of surviving by switching yourself off. The film begins with recognizable workplace anxiety that steadily mutates the office itself into a predatory supernatural system.
THE OFFICE ISN’T MERELY HAUNTED, ETCETERA IS. THE IDEAS GENERATED HOLD PSYCHIC CODING THAT ALLOWS THE DEMONIC ENTITIES TO ATTACH AND FEED ON fear, pain AND CONFORMITY.
CONFIRM HUMANITY is a contained psychological horror film about dissociation, corporate obedience and the terrifying cost of surviving by switching yourself off. The film begins with recognizable workplace anxiety that steadily mutates the office itself into a predatory supernatural system.
THE OFFICE ISN’T MERELY HAUNTED, ETCETERA IS. THE IDEAS GENERATED HOLD PSYCHIC CODING THAT ALLOWS THE DEMONIC ENTITIES TO ATTACH AND FEED ON fear, pain AND CONFORMITY.
CONFIRM HUMANITY is a contained psychological horror film about dissociation, corporate obedience and the terrifying cost of surviving by switching yourself off. The film begins with recognizable workplace anxiety that steadily mutates the office itself into a predatory supernatural system.
THE OFFICE ISN’T MERELY HAUNTED, ETCETERA IS. THE IDEAS GENERATED HOLD PSYCHIC CODING THAT ALLOWS THE DEMONIC ENTITIES TO ATTACH AND FEED ON fear, pain AND CONFORMITY.
CONFIRM HUMANITY is a contained psychological horror film about dissociation, corporate obedience and the terrifying cost of surviving by switching yourself off. The film begins with recognizable workplace anxiety that steadily mutates the office itself into a predatory supernatural system.
SYNOPSIS
After discovering four coworkers dead in a staged mass suicide at Etcetera Corp., the advertising agency where she works, copywriter Maja Ainsley is left with a trauma no one can explain. As she attempts to return to work, her reality begins to fracture: demonic figures appear in the office, her therapist is exposed as a fraud, her best friend disappears, and the company’s polished facade begins to crack.
Maja discovers the deaths were part of something deliberate. Her CEO, Jerrica Pierce, has been feeding a parasitic entity known as an Egregore, cultivating human trauma to keep it alive. As Maja is manipulated, exploited, and pushed toward psychological collapse, she realizes the only thing the entity cannot control is her rage.
When the Egregore finally reveals itself, Maja refuses its offer to join it. She kills Jerrica, takes control of her own life, and walks away with a fortune stolen from the man who betrayed her. But the Egregore survives. When Maja's missing friend calls, it becomes clear that it has already found another way in.
SYNOPSIS
After discovering four coworkers dead in a staged mass suicide at Etcetera Corp., the advertising agency where she works, copywriter Maja Ainsley is left with a trauma no one can explain. As she attempts to return to work, her reality begins to fracture: demonic figures appear in the office, her therapist is exposed as a fraud, her best friend disappears, and the company’s polished facade begins to crack.
Maja discovers the deaths were part of something deliberate. Her CEO, Jerrica Pierce, has been feeding a parasitic entity known as an Egregore, cultivating human trauma to keep it alive. As Maja is manipulated, exploited, and pushed toward psychological collapse, she realizes the only thing the entity cannot control is her rage.
When the Egregore finally reveals itself, Maja refuses its offer to join it. She kills Jerrica, takes control of her own life, and walks away with a fortune stolen from the man who betrayed her. But the Egregore survives. When Maja's missing friend calls, it becomes clear that it has already found another way in.
LOGLINE:
After witnessing a traumatic workplace tragedy, Maja must survive a psychological and spiritual war against a demonic egregore that feeds on conformity and manifests her worst PTSD symptoms as physical apparitions.
LOGLINE:
After witnessing a traumatic workplace tragedy, Maja must survive a psychological and spiritual war against a demonic egregore that feeds on conformity and manifests her worst PTSD symptoms as physical apparitions.
SYNOPSIS
After discovering four coworkers dead in a staged mass suicide at Etcetera Corp., the advertising agency where she works, copywriter Maja Ainsley is left with a trauma no one can explain. As she attempts to return to work, her reality begins to fracture: demonic figures appear in the office, her therapist is exposed as a fraud, her best friend disappears, and the company’s polished facade begins to crack.
Maja discovers the deaths were part of something deliberate. Her CEO, Jerrica Pierce, has been feeding a parasitic entity known as an Egregore, cultivating human trauma to keep it alive. As Maja is manipulated, exploited, and pushed toward psychological collapse, she realizes the only thing the entity cannot control is her rage.
When the Egregore finally reveals itself, Maja refuses its offer to join it. She kills Jerrica, takes control of her own life, and walks away with a fortune stolen from the man who betrayed her. But the Egregore survives. When Maja's missing friend calls, it becomes clear that it has already found another way in.
SYNOPSIS
After discovering four coworkers dead in a staged mass suicide at Etcetera Corp., the advertising agency where she works, copywriter Maja Ainsley is left with a trauma no one can explain. As she attempts to return to work, her reality begins to fracture: demonic figures appear in the office, her therapist is exposed as a fraud, her best friend disappears, and the company’s polished facade begins to crack.
Maja discovers the deaths were part of something deliberate. Her CEO, Jerrica Pierce, has been feeding a parasitic entity known as an Egregore, cultivating human trauma to keep it alive. As Maja is manipulated, exploited, and pushed toward psychological collapse, she realizes the only thing the entity cannot control is her rage.
When the Egregore finally reveals itself, Maja refuses its offer to join it. She kills Jerrica, takes control of her own life, and walks away with a fortune stolen from the man who betrayed her. But the Egregore survives. When Maja's missing friend calls, it becomes clear that it has already found another way in.
LOGLINE:
After witnessing a traumatic workplace tragedy, Maja must survive a psychological and spiritual war against a demonic egregore that feeds on conformity and manifests her worst PTSD symptoms as physical apparitions.
LOGLINE:
After witnessing a traumatic workplace tragedy, Maja must survive a psychological and spiritual war against a demonic egregore that feeds on conformity and manifests her worst PTSD symptoms as physical apparitions.
WHY THIS
Confirm Humanity explores how modern corporate structures can mirror abusive, inescapable environments and systems that demand compliance in exchange for the illusion of security.
The slow erosion of identity. The daily trade of self for stability. The creeping realization that surviving within the system may require surrendering something essential.
Our protagonist Maja must find the strength to break the collective contract of the entity, knowing that choosing to see the truth may mean losing her livelihood to save her soul.
WHY NOW
Corporate horror is an under-explored genre primed for a breakout. Confirm Humanity taps into an anxiety that already feels deeply familiar: growing distrust of corporations and the systems that increasingly shape our lives.
AI threatens to replace human labour. Record profits arrive alongside layoffs. Workers are reduced to metrics, data and productivity. The message is becoming impossible to ignore: within the corporate machine, people are expendable.
That fear crosses generations, but younger audiences are increasingly rejecting the promise that these systems were built for their benefit. They’re questioning the rules, calling out the hypocrisy and pushing back against a culture that puts profit before people.
Confirm Humanity doesn’t need to invent a new fear.
It simply takes one we already have and makes it horrifyingly literal.
WHY THIS
Confirm Humanity explores how modern corporate structures can mirror abusive, inescapable environments and systems that demand compliance in exchange for the illusion of security.
The slow erosion of identity. The daily trade of self for stability. The creeping realization that surviving within the system may require surrendering something essential.
Our protagonist Maja must find the strength to break the collective contract of the entity, knowing that choosing to see the truth may mean losing her livelihood to save her soul.
WHY NOW
Corporate horror is an under-explored genre primed for a breakout. Confirm Humanity taps into an anxiety that already feels deeply familiar: growing distrust of corporations and the systems that increasingly shape our lives.
AI threatens to replace human labour. Record profits arrive alongside layoffs. Workers are reduced to metrics, data and productivity. The message is becoming impossible to ignore: within the corporate machine, people are expendable.
That fear crosses generations, but younger audiences are increasingly rejecting the promise that these systems were built for their benefit. They’re questioning the rules, calling out the hypocrisy and pushing back against a culture that puts profit before people.
Confirm Humanity doesn’t need to invent a new fear.
It simply takes one we already have and makes it horrifyingly literal.
WHY THIS
Confirm Humanity explores how modern corporate structures can mirror abusive, inescapable environments and systems that demand compliance in exchange for the illusion of security.
The slow erosion of identity. The daily trade of self for stability. The creeping realization that surviving within the system may require surrendering something essential.
Our protagonist Maja must find the strength to break the collective contract of the entity, knowing that choosing to see the truth may mean losing her livelihood to save her soul.
WHY NOW
Corporate horror is an under-explored genre primed for a breakout. Confirm Humanity taps into an anxiety that already feels deeply familiar: growing distrust of corporations and the systems that increasingly shape our lives.
AI threatens to replace human labour. Record profits arrive alongside layoffs. Workers are reduced to metrics, data and productivity. The message is becoming impossible to ignore: within the corporate machine, people are expendable.
That fear crosses generations, but younger audiences are increasingly rejecting the promise that these systems were built for their benefit. They’re questioning the rules, calling out the hypocrisy and pushing back against a culture that puts profit before people.
Confirm Humanity doesn’t need to invent a new fear.
It simply takes one we already have and makes it horrifyingly literal.
WHY THIS
Confirm Humanity explores how modern corporate structures can mirror abusive, inescapable environments and systems that demand compliance in exchange for the illusion of security.
The slow erosion of identity. The daily trade of self for stability. The creeping realization that surviving within the system may require surrendering something essential.
Our protagonist Maja must find the strength to break the collective contract of the entity, knowing that choosing to see the truth may mean losing her livelihood to save her soul.
WHY NOW
Corporate horror is an under-explored genre primed for a breakout. Confirm Humanity taps into an anxiety that already feels deeply familiar: growing distrust of corporations and the systems that increasingly shape our lives.
AI threatens to replace human labour. Record profits arrive alongside layoffs. Workers are reduced to metrics, data and productivity. The message is becoming impossible to ignore: within the corporate machine, people are expendable.
That fear crosses generations, but younger audiences are increasingly rejecting the promise that these systems were built for their benefit. They’re questioning the rules, calling out the hypocrisy and pushing back against a culture that puts profit before people.
Confirm Humanity doesn’t need to invent a new fear.
It simply takes one we already have and makes it horrifyingly literal.
