Directed by Ryan McKenna

Synopsis: A young man in Portugal impregnates a vacationing Canadian and must face the inhospitable prairie landscape and its hopeless denizens when he emigrates to join her.

Distribution Contact: WFG

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RUNTIME: 72 Minutes
GENRE: Narrative, Fiction
PRODUCTION FORMAT: HD
LANGUAGE: English
LOCATION: Manitoba
KEYWORDS: Isolation, Snow, Troubles

Director's Statement: WINNIPEG BRUTALISM
This is a seven-point Manifesto outlining the dictates of what can only be termed Winnipeg Brutalism in cinema.
1. Winnipeg Brutalism is a new cinema of Winnipeg. Stark and austere, it is like a Québec cinema, but with jokes.
2. Winnipeg Brutalism is a cinema of winter and of darkness. Exterior shots are to be filmed only between the Winter Solstice and the Vernal Equinox, and only at night.
3. Winnipeg Brutalism is very strict. Each Brutalist film must contain at least one (unfaked) blizzard.
4. Winnipeg Brutalism is an urban nightmare. The Brutalist film allows no beauty upon the Winnipeg landscape. The streets are empty, the buildings are abandoned, human drama is devoid of any warmth or compassion.
5. Winnipeg Brutalism is an outsider cinema. It must be pulled out of your own blood, uncontaminated by the neutering dogma of any Canadian “Institutes" or “Film Centres" or any other forced sterilization campaigns.
6. Winnipeg Brutalism becomes more brutal still if the director is kept in a perpetual state of discouragement. Living in squalour, avoiding sunlight, and eating only processed foods will only heighten the success of a Brutalist film production.
7. Winnipeg Brutalism is stark and it is real. The viewer must be Brutally exposed to the elements "“ there can be no reassuring lambs wool of artifice, formalism or phantasmagoria.