Critics Week · 44th Edition
The Young Arsonists
Director
Sheila Pye
Country
Canada
Runtime
1 h 33 min
Language
English
Premiere
International Premiere
Synopsis
Set in the 80’s, four restless adolescent girls band together to escape their troubled lives by reclaiming an abandoned farmhouse as their own.
Cast
Maddy Martin, Jenna Warren, Sadie Rose, Madison Baines, Aaron Poole, Miranda Calderon, Measha Brueggergosman
Screenplay
Sheila Pye
Producers
Agata Smoluch Del Sorbo, Sonya Di Rienzo, Aeschylus Poulos
About the Director
An internationally acclaimed director and her short films have screened at prestigious festivals including Locarno and TIFF. Her short film THE RED VIRGIN premiered at TIFF in 2011 and won the Night of the Spanish Short Film Award at the Valladolid International Film Festival in Spain.
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