Carousel Pictures
Celebrating 10 Years!
Films
Nika & Madison
POST PRODUCTION
Madison, an ambitious University of Toronto student, is sexually assaulted by a predatory policeman while visiting her hometown. Childhood friend Nika, who still lives on the reserve, intervenes to save her, but the violent encounter leaves the officer critically injured.
Fearing they won’t be believed, the two young Indigenous women go on the run; first seeking refuge on the reserve and then deep within the Canadian wilderness, until they’re chased back to downtown Toronto.
Two sharp-eyed detectives begin to uncover the truth and see the women were likely acting in self-defense; however, when the case involves one of their own, the justice system reveals its deeply ingrained biases, blurring the lines between right and wrong.
This tense and emotionally charged story examines themes of resilience, loyalty, and the unbreakable bond of shared roots.
All My Puny Sorrows
RELEASED
Based on the international award-winning and best-selling novel by Miriam Toews, All My Puny Sorrows is the poignant story of two sisters—one a concert pianist, Elf, obsessed with ending her life, the other, a writer, Yoli, who in wrestling with this decision, makes profound discoveries about herself.
The film is written and directed by Michael McGowan (Still Mine, One Week) and production has commenced in North Bay, Ontario. The film stars Alison Pill (Vice), Sarah Gadon (Black Bear), Amybeth McNulty (Anne With An E) and Oscar-nominee Mare Winningham (Georgia). Rounding out the cast are Donal Logue (Vikings), Aly Mawji (Silicon Valley), and Mimi Kuzyk (Private Eyes).
Producing partners are McGowan’s Mulmur Feed Co. and Sugar Shack Productions’ Patrice Theroux.
The film is supported by the Short-Term Compensation Fund, administered by Telefilm Canada on behalf of the Government of Canada. Production financing also came from Telefilm Canada, Ontario Creates, the Northern Ontario Heritage Fund, SIM Post Sound and Picture and CBC Films. Development support was furnished by Telefilm Canada and the Harold Greenberg Fund.
Trench 11
RELEASED
Northern France, 1918. World War One is reaching its bloody climax. The end can’t come soon enough for shell-shocked tunneller Canadian ABRAHM BERTON. He’s saved countless lives but barely survived the horrific battles fought deep beneath the trenches—now he dreams of a new life with his beautiful French girlfriend.
Berton’s superiors, however, have just learned of a top-secret underground German base and need his expertise to get a team inside. He pleads with them not to send him. They give him no choice.
Deep beneath the surface, German special weapons officer REINER has lost control of a highly contagious biological weapon, which turns its victims into mindless killers. Berton and a team of Canadian, British and American troops soon find themselves trapped 100 feet underground with hordes of the infected, a rapidly spreading disease, and a team of German Stormtroopers dispatched to clean up Reiner’s mess.
Berton’s only option is to implode the base and bury the infectious bio-weapon deep underground in the hopes that it never surfaces again. But Reiner still believes his weapon can knock the Allies out of the war and will stop at nothing to see it unleashed on the Western Front.
TRENCH 11 is a gripping WWI sci-fi thriller.
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Sundowners
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ALEX is desperate for a memorable experience. In an attempt to break from his mundane life, he accepts a job offer from his unorganized boss TOM to film a destination wedding in sunny Mexico. Jumping at the chance to get away, Alex convinces Tom to bring his photographer friend JUSTIN to help. The only problem is, Justin isn’t a photographer.
After a rough connecting flight, and haphazard arrival at Mexico’s Gran Cielo Resort, the pair encounter an ensemble of characters including a badly sunburnt groom and his beautiful bride-to- be, a best man who confesses his unrequited love for his best friend’s fiancé, a pair of seductive foreigners, and a pair of teenage hooligans. Also present is a cast of family relatives who can’t but help observe the pair drunkenly fumbling their way through this gig. They don't really know what they're doing and there's a ten drink minimum. Things are bound to get messy.
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Population Zero
RELEASED
April 26th 2009. Only hours after three young men were gunned down in cold blood, Dwayne Nelson walked into the nearest ranger station and confessed to the crime. Despite his detailed account, he was allowed to go free because of a loophole in the American Constitution. Award Winning Canadian Documentarian Julian T. Pinder (Jesus Town, Trouble in the Peace, Land) travels to Yellowstone in a cinematic and compelling chase for truth behind a crime that should have rocked the nation. How did the US Constitution, the supreme law of the United States of America, let a guilty man go free? In his hunt for answers Pinder breaks the first rule of documentary film making by allowing himself to become a subject in the story; risking his life and others when he finds evidence that could re-open the case of the Yellowstone Murders years later. In Pinder's POPULATION ZERO we come to find the only thing more shocking than the crime itself are the bizarre events that followed.
