| The Maiden | |
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| Directed by | Graham Foy |
| Written by | Graham Foy |
| Produced by | Daiva Žalnieriunas Dan Montgomery |
| Starring | Jackson Sluiter Marcel T Jiménez Hayley Ness |
| Cinematography | Kelly Jeffrey |
| Edited by | Brendan Mills |
Production companies | F F Films MDFF |
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Running time | 117 minutes |
| Country | Canada |
| Language | English |
The Maiden is a 2022 Canadian drama film, written and directed by Graham Foy.[1] The film stars Marcel T. Jiménez as Colton, a teenager coping with his grief after the death of his friend Kyle (Jackson Sluiter) in an accident, and Hayley Ness as Whitney, a classmate of theirs whose journal Colton finds in the ravine where Kyle died.[2]
The film was included in the Next Step incubator program for emerging filmmakers at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival,[3] and in the First Cut+ program at the 2022 Karlovy Vary Film Festival.[4] At Karlovy Vary, it won the €5,000 First Cut+ TRT Award.[5]
It had its world premiere in the Giornate degli Autori program at the 2022 Venice International Film Festival, on September 1, 2022,[6] and its North American premiere in the Contemporary World Cinema lineup at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival.[7]