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'', September 17, 2015. Written and directed by

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and billed as a "cross between ''

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'' The Georgia Straight'', May 9, 2016. the film stars

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as Wolf, a young

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hunter who encounters Crane (

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), a wanted fugitive, in the forest. The two men fall in love and begin a relationship, which is tested when the gangsters looking for Crane arrive. The film's cast also includes

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, Glenn Lefchak, Johnny Terris, Gary Levert, Preston Carmichael, Scott Baker, Daniel Fanaberia, Zach Tovey, Katherine Sorbey and John Allen MacLean. Shot near

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in January 2015, the film premiered on September 23, 2015 at the Atlantic Film Festival. It screened at various LGBT film festivals, including Toronto's

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and the Vancouver Queer Film Festival, in 2016, and received a limited commercial run in 2018 at Toronto's Carlton Theatre.Rhiannon Johnson
"Two-spirit thriller North Mountain to have theatrical premiere in Toronto"

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Indigenous, June 29, 2018.

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* 2015 films Canadian action thriller films 2015 action thriller films Canadian LGBT-related films LGBT-related thriller films 2015 LGBT-related films First Nations films LGBT First Nations culture Films shot in Nova Scotia 2015 directorial debut films 2010s English-language films 2010s Canadian films {{2010s-Canada-film-stub

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