Director
Jamie M Dagg
Starring
Jon Bernthal, Imogen Poots, Christopher Abbott, Rosemarie DeWitt, Odessa Young
Certificate
15
Run Time
105 mins
Release Year
2017
Country of Origin
USA, Canada
Language
English
Director of Photography: Jessica Lee Gagné
Editor: Duff Smith
Produced by: Chris Ferguson, Brian Kavanaugh-Jones, Fernando Loureiro, Roberto Vasconcellos
Music: Brooke Blair, Will Blair
Screenplay by: Benjamin China, Paul China
Director Bio
Jamie M Dagg
P&I - Director Bio
Jamie M. Dagg’s first film, the short Waiting, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2005. His first feature film, River, also premiered at TIFF in 2015. It won the Borsos Award for Best Canadian Feature, Best Director, and Best Screenplay. Jamie also received a Canadian Screen Award for River for Best First Feature Film. Sweet Virginia is Dagg’s second feature film.
Sweet Virginia
Part of the American Dreams Strand
This darkly engrossing and at times brutal neo-Western features a stand-out performance by Jon Bernthal (the Punisher in Marvel’s Daredevil). He stars as a quiet outsider who runs a motor lodge in a small Alaskan town and who is reluctantly drawn into a cycle of secrets and violence after a bloody burglary-homicide shocks the town. Beautifully directed by Jamie Dagg (whose debut film River showed at EIFF last year) and reminiscent of early Coen Brothers work, the film is peppered with striking and complex performances.