Review by: Jessica Baxter
Directed and Directed by Sascha Drews. Ezra Krybus, Matthew Miller
Featuring Alysha Aubin, Candice Mausner, Morgan McCunn, Stephannie Richardson, Guy Yarkoni
A group of nature-loving girls who have been best summer camp friends forever decide to embark on one last canoe trip into the Canadian wilderness. Steph harbors a slight fear of water ever since she watched her father drown, so her older brother, Jonah, agrees to chaperone the excursion for moral support. Regrettably, as the title suggests, things don't go quite as smoothly as they'd planned...
Actually, I vastly prefer the original title, Portage. It's not ideal, but it's more inspired than just another present participle title. I really hate those fuck(ing) things. Besides, Surviving Crooked Lake could refer to just about anything that might go wrong at a lake. Portage evokes a more precise image of the strife that these girls are fated to endure.
Directed and Directed by Sascha Drews. Ezra Krybus, Matthew Miller
Featuring Alysha Aubin, Candice Mausner, Morgan McCunn, Stephannie Richardson, Guy Yarkoni
A group of nature-loving girls who have been best summer camp friends forever decide to embark on one last canoe trip into the Canadian wilderness. Steph harbors a slight fear of water ever since she watched her father drown, so her older brother, Jonah, agrees to chaperone the excursion for moral support. Regrettably, as the title suggests, things don't go quite as smoothly as they'd planned...
Actually, I vastly prefer the original title, Portage. It's not ideal, but it's more inspired than just another present participle title. I really hate those fuck(ing) things. Besides, Surviving Crooked Lake could refer to just about anything that might go wrong at a lake. Portage evokes a more precise image of the strife that these girls are fated to endure.
- 10/10/2009
- by thebaxter
- Planet Fury
See new clips from the adventure drama "Surviving Crooked Lake," starring Alysha Aubin, Candice Mausner, Morgan McCunn, Stephannie Richardson & Guy Yarkoni. Sascha Drews, Matthew Miller and Ezra Krybus direct and write the film produced by Nicholas D. Tabarrok, Jaty Tam and Matthew Miller. In this sensual, intense, indie feature drama, a quartet of teenage girls embark on a canoe-and-camping trip with a slightly older male guide in the endless wilderness of the Canadian Shield. His younger sister Steph – who is desperately afraid of the water – is one of the campers. Once the group is underway, romantic tensions erupt and disaster strikes...
- 7/25/2009
- Upcoming-Movies.com
See the trailer for NeoClassics Films' "Surviving Crooked Lake," starring Alysha Aubin, Candice Mausner, Morgan McCunn, Stephannie Richardson & Guy Yarkoni. Sascha Drews, Matthew Miller and Ezra Krybus direct as well as write the film. Nicholas D. Tabarrok, Jaty Tam and Matthew Miller production sees limited venues on July 25th. After seeing the trailer, I think this would be worth visiting for a welcome big budget break.
- 7/18/2009
- Upcoming-Movies.com
NEW YORK -- The 14th annual Slamdance Film Festival on Wednesday unveiled its lineup of narrative competition features, special presentations and the opening night film: Randall Cole's comedic drama Real Time starring Randy Quaid and Jay Baruchel.
The Park City, Utah, fest, long established as a renegade alternative to Sundance, includes a few other narrative features with known actors among its world premiere special screenings: Hart Bochner's romantic comedy Just Add Water starring Dylan Walsh, Danny DeVito,
Justin Long and Anika Noni Rose, and Daniel Schechter's coming-of-age drama Goodbye Baby starring Christine Evangelista, Kevin Corrigan and Alan Ruck, which was shown to distributors at ShoWest's indie film showcase this spring.
The 10 films in the Narrative Feature Competition include Tao Ruspoli's darkly comic road trip movie Fix, Steve Clark's portrait of a Manhattan playboy, Frost, and Paul Encinas' coming-of-age ensemble drama Glory Boy Days.
Other films include Simon Welsford's amnesiac thriller Jetsam, Oliver Irving's dark family comedy How to Be, Oren Peli's supernatural thriller Paranormal Activity and Matthew Miller, Ezra Krybus and Sascha Drews' erotic drama Portage.
Rounding out the narrative list are Ryan Piotrowicz's urban filmmaker drama The Project, Tom Quinn's family drama New Year Parade and Candela Figueira and Maitena Muruzabal's portrait of a factory worker, Under the Snow.
The Park City, Utah, fest, long established as a renegade alternative to Sundance, includes a few other narrative features with known actors among its world premiere special screenings: Hart Bochner's romantic comedy Just Add Water starring Dylan Walsh, Danny DeVito,
Justin Long and Anika Noni Rose, and Daniel Schechter's coming-of-age drama Goodbye Baby starring Christine Evangelista, Kevin Corrigan and Alan Ruck, which was shown to distributors at ShoWest's indie film showcase this spring.
The 10 films in the Narrative Feature Competition include Tao Ruspoli's darkly comic road trip movie Fix, Steve Clark's portrait of a Manhattan playboy, Frost, and Paul Encinas' coming-of-age ensemble drama Glory Boy Days.
Other films include Simon Welsford's amnesiac thriller Jetsam, Oliver Irving's dark family comedy How to Be, Oren Peli's supernatural thriller Paranormal Activity and Matthew Miller, Ezra Krybus and Sascha Drews' erotic drama Portage.
Rounding out the narrative list are Ryan Piotrowicz's urban filmmaker drama The Project, Tom Quinn's family drama New Year Parade and Candela Figueira and Maitena Muruzabal's portrait of a factory worker, Under the Snow.
- 12/6/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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