Some good news - the feature I wrote, DARK WOODS, just received funding from Telefilm Canada.
We’re putting together the rest of the financing now, and I hope to begin directing in June, 2021.
Joy Higgins—a survivor of domestic abuse—invites her friend Carmen Bazzoli on an Indigenous-led women’s weekend retreat in the Canadian wilderness, led by Joy’s group-therapist, Dr. Rachel Dunnley.
Dr. Dunnley’s method of therapy—a mixture of land-based ways of being/knowing and Western psychology—is her own, and it’s experimental.
As the weekend progresses, the border between reality and delusion shatters when Joy suspects they are being stalked by her abuser; in truth, all six women will be forced to confront a threat even more terrifying than the demons of their past.