After a traumatic break-up, a man is diagnosed with the rare and potentially fatal Broken Heart Syndrome and has to find a cure desperately.
[12] In 2016, Mancinelli and Cherniak produced The Big Crunch about a youth's existential crisis, partially funded by the BravoFACT film subsidy program.
Their first collaboration, Slap Happy, about a tempestuous relationship, was an official selection at the BFI London Film Festival, Vancouver and Slamdance.
[16] Reviewer Ben Robins named it one of the best short films at the BFI Festival, describing it as "like a little less touched-up Blue Valentine, with a much more twisted sense of humour.
[20] A teaser of their debut feature Violation was shown at the Cannes Marché du Film Online in June 2020.
[25] Now Toronto critic Norman Wilner called it "a major levelling up of their signature combination of rage and intensity".
[26] According to Variety reviewer Tomris Laffley, "Despite some heavy-handed choices, Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli pack a profound gut-punch with their debut feature.
[3] Mancinelli received his BFA in film production from York University and is an alumnus of the National Screen Institute's Features First program.