POLARIS: Get A Look At The Raw, Brutal New Survival Actioner Screening At Fantasia This Summer
Following her multiple award-winning feature debut with 2017’s The Sun at Midnight, writer/director K.C. Carthew is back and ready to make a big splash this summer at Fantasia Festival as the campaign continues for her sophomore feature, Polaris. The dystopian sci-fi survival action thriller stars 13-year old South Korean-born Canadian actress Viva Lee (Syfy’s Deadly Class), who was only eleven at the time of filming, and now makes her own feature debut appearance in a leading capacity.
Set in 2144 against the harsh backdrop of a frozen wasteland, Sumi, a human child raised by Mama Polar Bear, narrowly escapes capture from a brutal Morad hunting party and sets out across the vast winter landscape. When Sumi stumbles across Frozen Girl, an unlikely friendship is forged and together they race ahead of the vindictive hunters towards the only guiding light Sumi knows, the Polaris star.
Polaris marks an expansion of a short directed by Carthew in 2015 titled Fish Out Of War, which she also screened for Fantasia that year. The film is a pan-Canadian co-production between the Yukon, Quebec, and Ontario.
Carthew also produced alongside Max Fraser for Little Dipper Films Inc., with Paul Cadieux for Megafun Productions, and Alyson Richards for Alyson Richards Productions. Patrick Ewald and Kalani Dreimanis are exec producing for Epic Pictures Group, who also co-financed and handle world sales for the pic excluding Canada, where Filmoption International will have domain over its release following its Fantasia premiere on July 14 and future festival runs.
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