North Mountain (film)

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North Mountain
North Mountain poster.jpg
Directed byBretten Hannam
Written byBretten Hannam
Produced by
  • Bretten Hannam
  • Kevin Kincaid
Starring
CinematographyTarek Abouamin
Edited byChristopher Cooper
Music byLukas Pearse
Mike Ritchie
Production
company
Mazeking Pictures
Release date
  • September 23, 2015 (2015-09-23) (AFF)
Running time
78 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

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[]

  • List of lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender-related films of 2015

References[]

  1. ^ a b "North Mountain goes in a new direction". The Coast, September 17, 2015.
  2. ^ a b "Vancouver Queer Film Festival 2016 to feature Beyoncé's Brazilian Beyhive, Brokeback meets Rambo". The Georgia Straight, May 9, 2016.
  3. ^ "Valley-made thriller North Mountain fuses aboriginal, LGBT content with western tone". Halifax Chronicle-Herald, September 22, 2015.
  4. ^ "North Mountain" by Aboriginal filmmaker to premiere at 35th Atlantic Film Festival. Kukukwes, September 22, 2015.
  5. ^ Rhiannon Johnson, "Two-spirit thriller North Mountain to have theatrical premiere in Toronto". CBC News Indigenous, June 29, 2018.

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