The Burning Season is a 2023 Canadian drama film, directed by Sean Garrity.Adrian Mack, "Whistler Film Festival review: The Burning Season grasps the subtle inflections of a destructive affair". Stir, December 1, 2023. 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.David Song, "The Burning Season to have world premiere at Whistler Film Festival". Pique Newsmagazine, November 21, 2023. The film ends with a jump back to the one previous time Alena 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 to each otherafter which the petulant Alena murders her drunken passed out father by burning down the family cabin.
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.Kelly Townsend, "EXCLUSIVE: Garrity, Chernick go to camera on seventh feature". Playback, September 1, 2022. It premiered on November 30, 2023, in the Borsos Competition program at the Whistler Film Festival.Justin Anderson, "In Brief: Garrity’s The Burning Season to premiere at Whistler". Playback, October 26, 2023.
Awards At Whistler, Chernick and Diana Frances won the award for Best Screenplay in a Borsos Competition film.Taimur Sikander Mirza, "Atikamekw Suns wins best Canadian feature at WFF". Playback, December 5, 2023.
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