A 15-year-old joins a theatre company and becomes increasingly uncomfortable at the attention given to her by the director in The Players. After taking an acting workshop in the summer of 1994, 15-year-old Emily (Stefani Kimber) is invited by Marley (Jess Salgueiro) to audition for an avant-garde production of Hamlet at a theatre company run …
Coming of age
A single father and his teenage daughter deal with their relationship woes in To The Moon. Sam (Jacob Sampson) is a closeted gay single father living with his 16-year-old daughter, Ella (Phoebe Rex), with whom he does a choreographed Moondance every morning. Sam struggles with his closeted status after he meets a man named Wyatt …
A family fights to protect their farm in a post-apocalyptic world in 40 Acres. After a pandemic has decimated the global food chain the most valuable resource has become farmland. Hailey Freeman (Danielle Deadwyler) is an African-American military veteran living on her heavily fortified farm with her Indigenous partner Galen (Michael Greyeyes) and their four …
A 12-year-old Kent girl befriends an odd drifter in Bird. Bailey (Nykiya Adams) is a tomboyish 12-year-old living in Gravesend, North Kent with her chaotic father Bug (Barry Keoghan) and wayward brother Hunter (Jason Buda). As Bug is distracted by his upcoming wedding, Bailey meets Bird (Franz Rogowski), a mysterious man looking for his family. …
We spoke via Zoom with Caitlyn Sponheimer, the writer, director, producer, and co-star of the coming-of-age drama Wild Goat Surf, now playing in limited release, distributed by Vortex Media. Wild Goat Surf Synopsis Set in a rundown Penticton, Okanagan Valley RV park during the summer of 2003, Goat, a surfing-obsessed, thirteen-year-old skater girl, navigates the …
A teenage girl dreams of surfing from an Okanagan RV Park in Wild Goat Surf. Rell Anderson (Shayelin Martin), who prefers going by the nickname “Goat,” is a 13-year-old skater girl, living at an RV Park in the Okanagan town of Penticton. While her mother Jane (Caitlyn Sponheimer) works multiple jobs to save money for …
A teenage outcast falls for a reanimated corpse in Lisa Frankenstein. Set in 1989, Lisa Swallows (Kathryn Newton) is a shy teenager still reeling from her mother’s murder. Lisa’s father Dale (Joe Chrest) has since remarried the incredibly cruel nurse Janet (Carla Gugino), though her daughter Taffy (Liza Soberano) tries to get Lisa to come …