Sleeping Giant

Feature Drama, 2015
Writer & Producer

FILM WEBSITE:  sleepinggiantfilm.com

Sleeping Giant premiered at Critics Week in Cannes and went on to screen at 45 film festivals in 29 countries. It's won over a dozen prizes, and was nominated for four Canadian Screen Awards including Best Picture, alongside such films as Room, Brooklyn and Remember. Called Canada's answer to Stand By Me, the film is being hailed as a new coming-of-age classic.

​The secret history of this movie is that it was made with very humble means, by a cast and crew of great friends who were compelled to tell a story about boyhood set against the awe-inducing backdrop of Lake Superior.

​"Canada’s Sleeping Giant to rise and shine at Cannes"
The Toronto Star – April 20, 2015

"First-time teen actors bring naturalness to Sleeping Giant"
The Globe & Mail – May 15, 2015

Cannes Film Review: ‘Sleeping Giant’
Variety - May 15, 2015

"Perhaps most impressive is how..."Sleeping Giant" never sentimentalizes its story, and never compromises"
IndieWire - May 16, 2015

Sleeping Giant: at Cannes, a Canadian answer to ‘Boyhood’ makes a stir" A spectacular Canadian debut starring non-actors solves the puzzle of what happened to Anglo Canadian movies
Maclean's - May 20, 2015

Sleeping Giant (Short)

Short Drama, 2014
Writer & Producer

While spending a boring summer on Lake Superior, Adam falls in with two locals and begins attempting ever more hazardous stunts — but the arrival of pretty young Taylor could spark the trio’s riskiest dare yet.

Canadian Screen Awards Nominated 2015
Official Selection: Canada's Top Ten Film Festival 2014
Toronto International Film Festival 2014
Festival del film Locarno (Youth Jury Prize) 2014
AFI Fest 2014

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