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2023 Canadian drama film
The Burning Season
Directed bySean Garrity
Written byJonas Chernick
Diana Frances
Produced byAndrew Bronfman
Jonas Chernick
StarringSara Canning
Jonas Chernick
Joe Pingue
Tanisha Thammavongsa
CinematographyEric Oh
Edited byJohn Gurdebeke
Music byKevon Cronin
Production
companies		Banana-Moon Sky Films
Good Movies
The Time We Met Productions
Distributed byNorthern Banner Releasing
Release date
Running time89 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

The Burning Season is a 2023 Canadian drama film, directed by Sean Garrity. The film stars Sara Canning, Jonas Chernick, Joe Pingue and Tanisha Thammavongsa. The screenplay, written by Chernick and Diana Frances, won the award for best Canadian screenplay at the 2023 Whistler Film Festival, where it had its world premiere.

Plot

JB is the owner of a lake resort whose wedding to Poppy is disrupted by the revelation that he has been having a seven-year affair with Alena, a woman who has been coming to the resort for seven years for summer vacations with her husband Tom, and then depicts the affair in reverse chronological order. The film ends with a jump back to the one previous time Elena visited the resort, as a teenager with her parents. That is when she and Benny (the teenaged JB) originally meet. The teen couple are caught by her father in the act of losing their virginity too each other – after which the petulant Elena murders her father.

Cast

  • Sara Canning as Alena
  • Jonas Chernick as JB
  • Joe Pingue as Tom
  • Tanisha Thammavongsa as Poppy
  • Natalie Jane as Young Alena
  • Christian Meer as Benny

Production

The film went into production in fall 2022 in Algonquin Park, under the working title Mockingbird. It premiered on November 30, 2023, in the Borsos Competition program at the Whistler Film Festival.

Awards

At Whistler, Chernick and Diana Frances won the award for Best Screenplay in a Borsos Competition film.

References

  1. Adrian Mack, "Whistler Film Festival review: The Burning Season grasps the subtle inflections of a destructive affair". Stir, December 1, 2023.
  2. David Song, "The Burning Season to have world premiere at Whistler Film Festival". Pique Newsmagazine, November 21, 2023.
  3. Kelly Townsend, "EXCLUSIVE: Garrity, Chernick go to camera on seventh feature". Playback, September 1, 2022.
  4. Justin Anderson, "In Brief: Garrity’s The Burning Season to premiere at Whistler". Playback, October 26, 2023.
  5. Taimur Sikander Mirza, "Atikamekw Suns wins best Canadian feature at WFF". Playback, December 5, 2023.

External links

Films directed by Sean Garrity


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