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Riverburn (2004)

Riverburn poster
Directed by
Jennifer Calvert
Country
Canada
Elsewhere
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How it feels

A young city girl is left alone during a camping trip. She meets a boy, and they share a moment of mutual interest.

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What happens

Riverburn is a 2004 short film directed by Jennifer Calvert, that won her Best Young Canadian Director of a Short Film at the 2004 Vancouver International Film Festival. The 20 minute film—inspired by Andrei Tarkovsky and Terrence Malick—is about a city girl (Magda Apanowicz) who while briefly left alone on a camping trip, meets a city boy, sparking a mutual interest. Jason Whyte included the short in his Top 5 list for the Vancouver festival. The short was shot in British Columbia in the summer of 2003. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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