Thursday, March 21, 6:30 pm | Scotiabank Theatre Toronto
WILD GOAT SURF
Directed by Caitlyn Sponheimer
103min | Drama | Toronto Premiere
Set in a rundown Penticton, Okanagan RV park during the summer of 2003, Goat, a surfing-obsessed, thirteen-year-old skater girl, navigates the unbridled, unstructured, summer days of youth, dreaming about becoming a surfer like her deceased father...all while living 700 km from the ocean.
Director: Caitlyn Sponheimer
Writer: Caitlyn Sponheimer
Executive Producers: Dyllon Burnside, Robert Montcalm, Abubakar Salim, Warren Sulatycky
Producers: Michael Johnston, Caitlyn Sponheimer
DOP: Joseph Schweers
Production Designer: Matt Carson
Editor: Sarah Trudelle
Music: Cayne McKenzie
Cast: Shayelin Martin, Leandro Guedes, Caitlyn Sponheimer, Dyllon Burnside, Brittany Drisdelle, Trish Allen, Kayleigh Choiniere, Eva Attwood, Heidi Bauman, Joel Berg
Preceded by the short film:
UNIBROW
14min | Drama, Comedy
An Irani-Canadian girl dreads going to school with her ruined unibrow. But when the new girl from Iran offers to help her, she's forced to reevaluate her relationship with her brows and by extension, her Irani heritage
Director: Nedda Sarshar
Writer: Nedda Sarshar
Producers: Nedda Sarshar, Rabiya Mansoor, Shreya Patel
DOP: Allen Liu
Editor: Bahar Hessabi
Music: Jeremy Glenn
Cast: Lina Sennia, Parastoo Amanzadeh