North Mountain (film)

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North Mountain
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 2015 Canadian action thriller film.[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.

The film's cast also includes Meredith MacNeill, Gharrett Patrick Paon, Glenn Lefchak, Johnny Terris, Gary Levert, Preston Carmichael, Scott Baker, Daniel Fanaberia, Zach Tovey, Katherine Sorbey and John Allen MacLean.

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]

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  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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