North Mountain (film)
| North Mountain | |
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| Directed by | Bretten Hannam |
| Written by | Bretten Hannam |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Tarek Abouamin |
| Edited by | Christopher Cooper |
| Music by | Lukas Pearse Mike Ritchie |
Production company | Mazeking Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 78 minutes |
| Country | Canada |
| Language | English |
North Mountain is a Canadian action thriller film, released in 2015.[1] Written and directed by Bretten Hannam and billed as a "cross between Brokeback Mountain and Rambo",[2] the film stars Justin Rain as Wolf, a young Mi'kmaq hunter who encounters Crane (Glen Gould), a wanted fugitive, in the forest.[3] The two men fall in love and begin a relationship, which is tested when the gangsters looking for Crane arrive.
Shot near Kejimkujik National Park in January 2015,[4] the film premiered on September 23, 2015 at the Atlantic Film Festival.[1] It screened at various LGBT film festivals, including Toronto's Inside Out Film and Video Festival and the Vancouver Queer Film Festival, in 2016,[2] and received a limited commercial run in 2018 at Toronto's Carlton Theatre.[5]
See also
References
- ^ a b "North Mountain goes in a new direction". The Coast, September 17, 2015.
- ^ a b "Vancouver Queer Film Festival 2016 to feature Beyoncé's Brazilian Beyhive, Brokeback meets Rambo". The Georgia Straight, May 9, 2016.
- ^ "Valley-made thriller North Mountain fuses aboriginal, LGBT content with western tone". Halifax Chronicle-Herald, September 22, 2015.
- ^ "North Mountain" by Aboriginal filmmaker to premiere at 35th Atlantic Film Festival. Kukukwes, September 22, 2015.
- ^ Rhiannon Johnson, "Two-spirit thriller North Mountain to have theatrical premiere in Toronto". CBC News Indigenous, June 29, 2018.
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