The Maiden (film)

The Maiden
Directed byGraham Foy
Written byGraham Foy
Produced byDaiva Žalnieriunas
Dan Montgomery
StarringJackson Sluiter
Marcel T Jiménez
Hayley Ness
CinematographyKelly Jeffrey
Edited byBrendan Mills
Production
companies
F F Films
MDFF
Release date
  • September 1, 2022 (2022-09-01) (Venice)
Running time
117 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

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]