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The Burning Season (2023 film)

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The Burning Season
Directed bySean Garrity
Written byJonas Chernick
Diana Frances
Produced byAndrew Bronfman
Jonas Chernick
StarringJonas Chernick
Sara Canning
Joe Pingue
Tanisha Thammavongsa
Natalie Jane
CinematographyEric Oh
Edited byJohn Gurdebeke
Music byKevon Cronin
Production
companies
Banana-Moon Sky Films
Good Movies
The Time We Met Productions
Distributed byNorthern Banner Releasing
Release date
  • November 30, 2023 (2023-11-30) (Whistler)
Running time
89 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

The Burning Season is a 2023 Canadian drama film, directed by Sean Garrity.[1] The film stars Jonas Chernick as J.B., the owner of a lake resort whose wedding to Poppy (Tanisha Thammavongsa) is disrupted by the revelation that he has been having a seven-year affair with Alena (Sara Canning), a woman who has been coming to the resort regularly for summer vacations with her husband Tom (Joe Pingue), and then depicts the affair in reverse chronological order back to its beginning.[2]

The cast also includes Natalie Jane, Christian Meer, Sarah Cleveland, Michelle Giroux, Carmen Grant, Duane Keogh, Geoffrey Pounsett and Erik Salmon in supporting roles.

The film went into production in fall 2022 in Algonquin Park, under the working title Mockingbird.[3] It premiered on November 30, 2023, in the Borsos Competition program at the Whistler Film Festival.[4]

Awards

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At Whistler, Chernick and Diana Frances won the award for Best Screenplay in a Borsos Competition film.[5]

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