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1917 Montana, an immigrant family battles the deadly Spanish Flu while a life threatening blizzard rages around them.
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Siri Omsdal hates her father.
Siri is 11 and that’s how she feels. It’s 1917. All Siri ever wanted was stability in a comfortable home surrounded by loving extended family and friends. Like she had in Wisconsin. And before that, Norway.
Now she’s in the barren, wintery plains of southeastern Montana. Her father dragged her, along with her m
Siri Omsdal hates her father.
Siri is 11 and that’s how she feels. It’s 1917. All Siri ever wanted was stability in a comfortable home surrounded by loving extended family and friends. Like she had in Wisconsin. And before that, Norway.
Now she’s in the barren, wintery plains of southeastern Montana. Her father dragged her, along with her mother and younger brother, to a tiny tarpaper shack with a single door that doesn’t shut and whose walls rattle with the smallest wind. It wasn’t good enough for her father to work the family farm in Viroqua; he had to have his own farm in ugly Montana.
It’s not Wisconsin.
Just days before Christmas, her mother deteriorates, consumed with the Spanish Flu. Father abandons them to seek medical help. Worse still, he has left Siri, just 11, in charge of her dying mother, her 8-year-old worthless brother and the farm, promising he will soon return. What insanity would lead her parents to possibly believe someone as young as she was up to this?
When her father fails to return as soon as promised, that promise is quickly replaced by encompassing darkness, raging winds and a seemingly endless blizzard. First one and then another. Her long-cherished dream of the comforts of home, even in this empty landscape, is forgotten. Siri struggles with the blizzards, diminishing fuel and food, bitter cold and her own failing faith in order to keep her mother alive and her brother safe in hopes her father returns before they succumb.
Siri hates her father, it’s true. But she would love him forever if he would only come back. But before that can happen, if it even does, she must confront her fear and reach deep inside herself to find the faith and the strength she will need to help her family survive.
The Director
The Director
The Director
This is not my first feature film. But it’s my most personal one. I have directed three features (two of which I also co-wrote) and have edited 25 (I belong to IASTE 700, the editors guild). Add to that, I have directed a couple of feature-length documentaries, a dozen documentary and educational shorts, and you can see that I have a gre
This is not my first feature film. But it’s my most personal one. I have directed three features (two of which I also co-wrote) and have edited 25 (I belong to IASTE 700, the editors guild). Add to that, I have directed a couple of feature-length documentaries, a dozen documentary and educational shorts, and you can see that I have a great deal of experience.
As the writer of CAT AND THE TROLLS, I have an MFA from UCLA where I won the Jack Nicholson and Larry Thor Awards. Two of my screenplays were semi-finalists in the Nichols Fellowship.
One of the semi-finalists, TEACHING TOOTS, was purchased by Oscar-winning director Euzhan Palcy’s Flying Antelope Productions.
My screenplay TAKE THE REINS ( co-written with Marsha Pincus and Belle Allen) was just optioned by INQ Spacers and Lovely Day Films.
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Car and the Trolls is a planned feature film that I will write about soon.
Car and the Trolls is a planned feature film
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