CANADA
2015 / WORLD PREMIERE
1H29 – IN ENGLISH
Synopsis
Teenager Adam is spending his summer vacation with his parents on rugged Lake Superior. His dull routine shatters when he befriends Riley and Nate, smart aleck cousins who pass their ample free time with debauchery and reckless cliff jumping. The revelation of a hurtful secret triggers Adam to set in motion irreversible events that test the bonds of friendship and change the boys forever.
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DIRECTOR: Andrew Cividino
PRODUCTION: Karen Harnisch - Aeschylus Poulos - Marc Swenker - Aaron Yeger - James Vandewater
SCREENPLAY: Andrew Cividino - Aaron Yeger - Blain Watters
CINEMATOGRAPHY: James Klopko
EDITING: James Vandewater
SOUND: Adam Parsons
PRODUCTION DESIGN: Erika Lobko
MUSIC: Chris Thornborrow - Bruce Peninsula
CAST:
Jackson Martin
Reece Moffett
Nick Serino
David Disher
Erika Brodzky
Rita Serino
Katelyn McKerracher
Kyle Bertrand
Lorraine Philp
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Biography
Andrew Cividino
Canadian nationality
Born on May 31st, 1983 in Dundas (Canada)
Filmography
2015 SLEEPING GIANT
2014 SLEEPING GIANT (S)
2013 YELLOW FISH (S)
2011 WE ATE THE CHILDREN LAST (S) |
PRODUCTION
Film Forge Productions Inc.
Karen Harnisch
Tel. +1 647 237 8712
karen.e.harnisch@gmail.com
DISTRIBUTION
KMBO DISTRIBUTION
Grégoire Marchal
Tel. +33 (0)143 54 47 24
gregoire@kmbofilms.com
CO-PRODUCTION
Hawkeye Pictures
Aeschylus Poulos
Tel. +1 647 409 4318
aeschylus@sympatico.ca
SALES
SEVILLE INTERNATIONAL
Anick Poirier
Natalie Kampelmacher
anickp@filmsseville.com
nkampelmacher@filmsseville.com
FRENCH AND INTERNATIONAL PRESS
Vanessa Jerrom
Claire Vorger
Tel. +33 (0)6 14 83 88 82
Tel. +33 (0)6 20 10 40 56
vanessajerrom@orange.fr
CONTACT CANNES
SEVILLE INTERNATIONAL
Anick Poirier
Natalie Kampelmacher
anickp@filmsseville.com
nkampelmacher@filmsseville.com
A beautiful landscape, a vivid story, an electric performance: this first film is as intense as impressive. As if, according to his young director, “Lord Of The Flies had met Stand by Me”.
“During my childhood, my parents took me up to northern Ontario to spend the summer in a tiny beach community. Though the story of the film is fictional, this community serves as the setting for it. I wanted to capture the inferno of this stage of youth for boys, before the transition to adulthood. I wanted to capture the sting of unrequited love, the joy of true friendship, the excitement of pushing boundaries with reckless abandon. The rugged, unforgiving landscape of Lake Superior in northern Ontario was a natural setting for this kind of story, as both possess a sort of unpredictable violence.
The film was actually a feature concept before I decided to make the short film. My team attempted to get a feature film, but was unsuccessful. We had already discovered Reece Moffett and Nick Serino (Riley and Nate in the film), and we wanted to capture their essence before they grew too old for the roles. So we decided to make a very small short film as a "study" for the feature. These boys had never acted before, but were so natural and eager to collaborate with me, the process we developed together inspired how I approached the feature in a profound way.
I had a very strong idea of what I wanted the film to explore early on in the process. Adolescence to me is the awakening of strong creative and destructive impulses. In the film, the boys are aggressive, and I think that it is part of figuring out how one fits in the world.
What was most difficult for me was the long journey I undertook to find the most fitting process for realizing the film. It started as a traditional screenplay, and we ended up deconstructing from there, coming up with a less conventional method of production in order to capture the authenticity of our young cast.”
Interview by Ariane Allard
