Glass Eye
Pix is pleased to announce that as of day 13 production on The Last
Winter continues in the Arctic region of Iceland, despite subzero
temperatures, blizzards, un-seasonal rain, winds of 40 knots and a lost
negative only just recovered.
The Last Winter
is the new project from writer-director Larry Fessenden. The film is a
supernatural thriller produced by Antidote Films' Jeff Levy-Hinte (Thirteen,
Laurel Canyon, High Art) and Fessenden's Glass Eye Pix (The Roost,
The Off Season). Fessenden's past directing credits include No
Telling, Habit, and Wendigo. He penned The Last Winter
with Robert Leaver.
The film boasts
Fessenden's largest budget to date and started production early March
in Iceland in partnership with Zic Zac Films (Nói albínói). Fessenden
is very pleased to be working with a knockout ensemble of actors headed
by Ron Perlman (Hellboy, City of Lost Children, Blade 2), James
Le Gros (Near Dark, Phantasm 2) and Connie Britton (Friday Night
Lights, The Brothers McMullen). Additional cast includes Kevin Corrigan,
Jamie Harrold, and Pato Hoffman, Zach Gilford, and Joanne Shenandoah.
The story takes
place in the Artic tundra of Northern Alaska, where an advanced team working
for a petroleum company is engaged in a massive project to exploit the
oil resources of the pristine land. After one crew member is found dead,
a disorientation slowly claims the sanity of the other team members as
each of them succumbs to a mysterious fear.
Says Fessenden:
"In the time-honored tradition of horror films, The Last Winter
was written as a cautionary fiction, but with recent events it has become
increasingly aligned with fact."
Our
sincere thanks to writer/director Mr Larry Fessenden for this information.
