SLEEPING GIANT (2015) - ♦♦♦♦

Directed by - Andrew Cividino

Written by - Andrew Cividino, Blaine Watters, Aaron Yeger

Starring - Nick Serino, Reece Moffett, Erika Brodzky

"Contemporary mid teen version of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer affect the coming of age of an introverted kid with their rebellious and precocious debauchery during the course of a summer holiday on Lake Superior. 

Exciting, funny but also powerful and honest, SLEEPING GIANT marks the directorial debut of ANDREW CIVIDINO. The film is driven by a feeling of authenticity and genuine suspense that makes its observation on darker and awkward sides of adolescence far more rewarding than most films of the kind of a more mainstream nature. 

A good use of improvisation and the natural charisma exhumed by the young leading players in the film completes the picture, while the style remains faithful to North American indie pictures of the digital age it also takes full advantage of its rural landscape with its beauty and its hidden dangers."

Drama, Canada