Sleeping Giant
Filmfest 2015
Canada 2015
Original version
(Original: English)
German Premiere
Director: Andrew Cividino
Section: CineVision
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.
"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."
Andrew Cividino
Cast: Jackson Martin, Reece Moffett, Nick Serino, David Disher, Erika Brodzky
Credits
Screenplay: Andrew Cividino, Aaron Yeger, Blain Watters
Director of Photography: James Klopko
Film Editor: James Vandewater
Composer: Chris Thornborrow, Bruce Peninsula
Production Designer: Erika Lobko
Costume Design: Krista Graham
Sound: Adam Parsons
Producer: Karen Harnisch, Andrew Cividino, Marc Swenker, James Vandewater, Aaron Yeger
Production Company: Film Forge Productions
Co-Production Company: Hawkeye Pictures
World Sales: Seville International
Director: Andrew Cividino
