A feature film shot entirely in Hope is being released online after a 2017 theatrical run.
Two years after filming wrapped up in Hope, the thriller Sweet Virginia is being shown on Netflix and other online streaming services. The crime noir feature film, directed by Jamie M. Dagg and written by the brothers Benjamin and Paul China, is set in a fictional small town in Alaska with many scenes which will be recognizable to a Hope audience.
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Locals may feel a strange sense of familiarity or déjà vu as they watch their own town play host to this dark thriller.
Now, a Toronto weekly entertainment magazine, praised the film’s slow build up ‘until all hell breaks loose.’
New York Times film critic Jeannette Catsoulis applauded the acting in the film she calls a ‘quiet knife-twister in which atmosphere and performance are everything.’
Sweet Virginia can be found on Netflix and other streaming services including Itunes, Youtube and GooglePlay. The film is rated R for scenes of violence, sexuality, language and drug use.
Read more in this week’s Hope Standard newspaper.
More on films shot in Hope and the local film industry:
Oscar-winning producer J. Miles Dale on filming horror-thriller in Hope
Hallmark film shot in Hope released
Young Hope actor stars in short film to premiere at Locarno Festival
Hope area creator premieres three animated short films at world’s largest Indigenous film festival
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