Whitewash (film)

Whitewash is a Canadian drama film, released in 2013.^[1] Directed by Emanuel Hoss-Desmarais and written by Hoss-Desmarais and Marc Tulin, the film stars Thomas Haden Church as Bruce, an unemployed snowplow driver in rural Quebec who accidentally kills a man on a late-night drunken joyride. The film's cast also includes Anie Pascale, Marc Labrèche, Isabelle Nélisse, Geneviève Laroche, Emanuel Hoss-Desmarais and Vincent Hoss-Desmarais.

Storyline

In the harsh, wintry woods of rural Quebec, Bruce (Thomas Haden Church), a down-on-his-luck snowplow operator, accidentally kills a man during a drunken night joyride. Stricken with panic, he hides the body and takes to the deep wilderness in hopes of outrunning both the authorities and his own conscience. But as both begin to close in, Bruce falls apart mentally and morally and mysteries unravel to reveal who he was before the accident, the truth behind his victim, and the circumstances that brought them together in a single moment.

Awards

The film premiered at the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival,^[1] where Hoss-Desmarais won the award for Best New Narrative Director. The film went on to earn Hoss-Desmarais a nominattion for Best Director at the 2013 Directors Guild of Canada awards.^[2] In January 2014, Hoss-Desmarais was awarded the Claude Jutra Award for the year's best feature by a first-time film director,^[3] and the film garnered two Canadian Screen Award nominations at the 2014 Canadian Screen Awards: Best Supporting Actor (Labrèche) and Best Original Screenplay (Hoss-Desmarais and Tulin).^[4]

References

External links

• Whitewash at the Internet Movie Database