Exclusive: Cameras have started rolling in Newfoundland, Canada, on the indie thriller Hangashore from director Justin Oakey.
The film stars James Frecheville, Hera Hilmar, and Stephen Oates. Producers on the pic are Oakey of Black River Pictures, Tania Sarra of Sauce Studios, and Patrick Condon.
Written, directed, and co-produced by Oakey, the story follows an artist who, haunted by visions, abandons her life in Iceland to chase the ghost of her disappeared father to the remote island of Newfoundland. After settling in a small fishing village, a curious connection blossoms with Jack, a local facing the pressure of his first season at the helm of his father’s legacy – and a crew eager to get out to the ice floes in search of seals. When Vera sneaks aboard Jack’s boat,...
The film stars James Frecheville, Hera Hilmar, and Stephen Oates. Producers on the pic are Oakey of Black River Pictures, Tania Sarra of Sauce Studios, and Patrick Condon.
Written, directed, and co-produced by Oakey, the story follows an artist who, haunted by visions, abandons her life in Iceland to chase the ghost of her disappeared father to the remote island of Newfoundland. After settling in a small fishing village, a curious connection blossoms with Jack, a local facing the pressure of his first season at the helm of his father’s legacy – and a crew eager to get out to the ice floes in search of seals. When Vera sneaks aboard Jack’s boat,...
- 3/6/2024
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Set on Canada’s Prince Edward Island, director Adam Perry’s debut follows a well-worn path when a local discovers some ill-gotten gains – when will they learn this never ends well?
Shot and set on Prince Edward Island in Canada, with an almost all-Canadian cast and crew, one gets the feeling this ponderous drama was also made largely for a local audience. Writer-director Adam Perry takes a classic moral-dilemma set-up – poor protagonist finds a substantial amount of seemingly abandoned cash and must decide whether to keep it or call the cops – and puts a distinctly Prince Edward Island spin on it. On one level, that means taking advantage of the pretty rural scenery, with its old-fashioned clapboard houses and miles of beach, as well as interesting local traditions such as harvesting Irish moss (actually not a moss but a variety of nutritious seaweed) that main character Kevin Doucette (Stephen Oates...
Shot and set on Prince Edward Island in Canada, with an almost all-Canadian cast and crew, one gets the feeling this ponderous drama was also made largely for a local audience. Writer-director Adam Perry takes a classic moral-dilemma set-up – poor protagonist finds a substantial amount of seemingly abandoned cash and must decide whether to keep it or call the cops – and puts a distinctly Prince Edward Island spin on it. On one level, that means taking advantage of the pretty rural scenery, with its old-fashioned clapboard houses and miles of beach, as well as interesting local traditions such as harvesting Irish moss (actually not a moss but a variety of nutritious seaweed) that main character Kevin Doucette (Stephen Oates...
- 5/1/2023
- by Leslie Felperin
- The Guardian - Film News
"You're in the deep end now... I hope you can swim." 101 Films has revealed a new official US trailer for an indie film from Canada titled A Small Fortune. This originally premiered a few years ago and it already opened in Canada in the fall of 2021, but is only now getting its US release if anyone still wants to watch. From writer / director Adam Perry, adapting his award-winning short film A Blessing from the Sea (2017). When a desperate man finds a bag of lost money off the shores of Prince Edward Island, his decision to keep it secret turns his quaint fishing village into a growing crime scene. Everyone knows that finding a bag of money always leads to more problems and violence. The film stars Stephen Oates, Liane Balaban, Joel Thomas Hynes, Andrea Bang, and Matt Cook. This looks like it has solid production value, but will the...
- 4/13/2023
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Stars: Rhiannon Morgan, Stephen Oates | Written by C.H Newell | Directed by Benjamin Noah
Since hooking up with the Romford Film Festival I have seriously had my eyes opened to the real potential of short movies and the performances and artistry on show. These creators only have 15 to 20 minutes to tell their story, build their universe leave the audience feeling wholly satisfied yet wanting more. It’s a difficult balancing act when you only have so long to do it and in the two years I have spent with the festival I could probably count on one hand the ones I would personally deem Perfect!
New Woman sits on one of those five fingers for me… I have never really been huge on the Gothic Horror/Thriller genre, well unless you count Tim Burton and believe me when I say I don’t count Tim Burton. However New Woman transcends...
Since hooking up with the Romford Film Festival I have seriously had my eyes opened to the real potential of short movies and the performances and artistry on show. These creators only have 15 to 20 minutes to tell their story, build their universe leave the audience feeling wholly satisfied yet wanting more. It’s a difficult balancing act when you only have so long to do it and in the two years I have spent with the festival I could probably count on one hand the ones I would personally deem Perfect!
New Woman sits on one of those five fingers for me… I have never really been huge on the Gothic Horror/Thriller genre, well unless you count Tim Burton and believe me when I say I don’t count Tim Burton. However New Woman transcends...
- 7/6/2021
- by Kevin Haldon
- Nerdly
Stars: M.J. Kehler, Stephen Oates, Michael Worthman, Kimberley Drake, Erin Mick, Meghan Hancock, Allison Moira Kelly, Patrick Foran | Written and Directed by G. Patrick Condon
G. Patrick Condon’s feature-length debut Incredible Violence is also written by him, and it’s… well, it’s something. It’s a ferocious, weird and flat-out insane film with a somewhat meta concept and plenty of ill-mannered and cruel things going on through its hour and a half runtime.
The concept-slash-story, see’s G. Patrick Gordon played by Stephen Oates, a filmmaker who has squandered the budget to make his film, a budget given to him by some shady folks from some organisation. He now has to figure out a way to make his film, and do it quickly and without any money. He hires a small cast and decides, being the altogether nice and completely not mad guy that he is, to lock...
G. Patrick Condon’s feature-length debut Incredible Violence is also written by him, and it’s… well, it’s something. It’s a ferocious, weird and flat-out insane film with a somewhat meta concept and plenty of ill-mannered and cruel things going on through its hour and a half runtime.
The concept-slash-story, see’s G. Patrick Gordon played by Stephen Oates, a filmmaker who has squandered the budget to make his film, a budget given to him by some shady folks from some organisation. He now has to figure out a way to make his film, and do it quickly and without any money. He hires a small cast and decides, being the altogether nice and completely not mad guy that he is, to lock...
- 10/10/2019
- by Chris Cummings
- Nerdly
In G. Patrick Condon's debut feature a hapless film-maker (named G. Patrick Condon and played by Stephen Oates) must convince actors to star in his low-budget horror film after spending the entire production budget by mistake. He owes money to some shady people, and shooting the film quickly and cheaply is his only chance to recoup some funds and pay them back.
This is a film full of meta-textual tricks, and how much one enjoys it will in part come down to one's tolerance for a director wanting people to know how clever they are. Condon's central conceit, that of a director killing his actors in the name of art (and cash) is nothing new. Nor is the idea of inserting oneself into one's own screenplay. What does work here though are several moments of outright craziness and an agreeable...
This is a film full of meta-textual tricks, and how much one enjoys it will in part come down to one's tolerance for a director wanting people to know how clever they are. Condon's central conceit, that of a director killing his actors in the name of art (and cash) is nothing new. Nor is the idea of inserting oneself into one's own screenplay. What does work here though are several moments of outright craziness and an agreeable...
- 4/22/2019
- QuietEarth.us
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