2018 Heartland International Film Festival Guidebook

Page 107

Official Selections

A Thousand Miles Behind

Above the Drowning Sea

NARRATIVE FEATURE / OFFICIAL SELECTION 83 MINUTES / USA / 2018

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE / OFFICIAL SELECTION 92 MINUTES / CANADA / 2017

Director: Nathan Wetherington Writer: Nathan Wetherington Producer: Nathan Wetherington Executive Producers: Nathan Wetherington, Caroline Diani Cast: Jeffrey Doornbos, Vanessa Campbell, Bre Blair, Greg Evigan

Directors: Nicola Zavaglia & Rene Balcer Writers: Rene Balcer & Nicola Zavaglia Producers: Nicola Zavaglia, Elisabeth Ann Gimber Executive Producer: Rene Balcer Featured Subjects/Talent: Julianna Margulies, Tony Goldwyn, Nick Mancuso

”A Thousand Miles Behind” is a beautiful and poignant story of hope, that even when life hits rock bottom there is always a way through if you can just hang in there long enough to find your way back to the light. After losing his wife and daughter in a terrible accident, Preston Avery finds himself suddenly trapped in grief and isolated in a now empty house with nothing but the ghosts of his previous life to haunt him. As the days bleed together and the walls of the house slowly close in around him, all hope seems to be lost until a motorcycle mysteriously appears one morning on his doorstep.

”Above the Drowning Sea” tells the story of the dramatic escape of European Jews from Nazi-controlled Europe to Shanghai on the eve of WWII. As Hitler’s forces sought to expel the Jews from Europe, no other country would open its doors to the refugees. Their lives at stake, the refugees desperately looked for a way out from what would become the Holocaust. Then, a door opened on the east coast of far-away China, in Shanghai, an “open city” itself in chaos from foreign invasion and civil war. But getting there required a “golden” document to get out of Nazi Europe – a visa from China. In Chinese and English with English subtitles

Contains language

Suitable for all audiences

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