Northern Shade

Northern Shade (2023)

Bring him home.

A troubled Army veteran emerges from isolation when his younger brother is recruited by an extremist.

Date of release
2023-02-24
TMDB
2.0 / 10 (2)
Runtime
1h 36m
Genres
Drama, Crime, Thriller
Director
Christopher Rucinski

Casting

Interesting facts

Northern Shade is a 2022 independent feature film. It stars Jesse Gavin, Titania Galliher, Joseph Poliquin, Alejandro Bravo and Romano Orzari. The film premiered at the Phoenix Film Festival, where it won Best Screenplay. It also won Best Actor for Gavin at the Downtown Los Angeles Film Festival, Best Narrative Feature and Best Actor for Gavin at the Fargo Film Festival, Best Feature at the Poppy Jasper Film Festival, Best Feature, 2nd Runner Up at the Woods Hole Film Festival, and Best Drama Feature, Best Actor for Gavin at the Legacy Theatre Film Festival.

Production

Northern Shade was shot in Connecticut in November 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic. Locations include New Haven, Fair Haven, Branford, Guilford, Voluntown, the Quinnipiac River Marina, the Stony Creek Quarry and the Shore Line Trolley Museum.

Christopher Rucinski, director and writer of the film, and cinematographer Grzegorz Gill were raised in the area in Branford. Rucinski moved to Los Angeles to work in the film industry, but returned to Connecticut to be with his family during the pandemic. While in lockdown, he reworked the script, originally written in 2019, to take place during the pandemic and bring the production in compliance with health mandates.

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