The Canadian Screen Award-winning film Brotherhood will light up the screen at The O’Brien Theatre Arnprior starting tonight (Sept 16th).
Vancouver director Richard Bell gives us a synopsis.
Based on a true story, a group of teenage boys attending camp in the Ontario’s Kawartha Lakes in 1926 are sent hurtling into a fight for survival when their canoe capsizes in a freak storm.
The colouration of the film, with sepias and deep yellows, makes it seem like a period piece.
Bell says in the pre-pandemic era, we may not have considered a film where only four of fifteen survive as a movie with a happy ending.
The director became interested in the story in 2006, started his research in 2011, found a producer in 2014- and the funding, and filming came in 2017.
Bell says in a way the pandemic was a blessing- because previous distribution rules were thrown out the window.
The film plays at the O’Brien Theatre in Arnprior tonight at 7:30, with matinee and evening performances Saturday and Sunday.
By Rick Stow
