A lackadaisical young temp's week gets complicated when his co-worker ropes him into a time travel scheme involving the exploitation of their office's flex hours.
In the science-fiction comedy FLEX TIME, Noel, a young Asian-American would-be comic artist working as a temp, is up before dawn on a Tuesday at the behest of his scheming co-worker Arnaud. Tasked with emptying old binders, Noel is joined by a co-worker, Jeanette, openly tempting him with an office-hours fling, and back in the city after work, he senses tension in visiting his girlfriend Monique in the presence of Field, her crunchy comic shop boss. As the week progresses, things get stranger, and the working hours worse, Noel mostly surrenders himself to Arnaud’s conviction. But when his Friday ends and he awakes the next morning, Arnaud reveals to him they have reversed in time, and instead of being Saturday, it's Thursday again. Noel is forced to work his way backwards through the week, and finally finds a little bit of agency in a foregone conclusion.
Jennifer Liao's directorial credits include acclaimed episodes of the sci-fi/horror series FROM for MGM produced by AGBO & Midnight Radio, as well as TWO SENTENCE HORROR STORIES for The CW and the period drama MURDOCH MYSTERIES for CBC and Acorn. She also directed the landmark Asian-American Christmas movies A SUGAR & SPICE HOLIDAY for Lifetime, for which she received a DGC Award nomination, and A BIG FAT FAMILY CHRISTMAS for Hallmark. Prior to that, Jennifer wrote and directed episodes of the crime drama BLOOD AND WATER, nominated for Best Drama Series at the Canadian Screen Awards, and made her feature directorial debut with the supernatural dark comedy END OF DAYS, INC. She is currently writing her first comic for Mad Cave Studios and was a TIFF Writers' Studio fellow in 2018/19.
Actor - Ricky He
Actor - Daniel Maslany
Director of Photography - Benjamin Lichty
Picture Editor - Nicholas Wong
