Blue Fox Entertainment just released Andrew Boodhoo Kightlinger‘s (Tater Tot & Patton) moving and inspiring family adventure movie, Lost on a Mountain in Maine last Friday.
Directed by Boodhoo Kightlinger, from a script penned by Luke Paradise (Sympathy for the Devil), the film is based on the best-selling Harper Collins Book of the same name written by Donn Fendler, as told to Joseph B. Egen.
Lost on a Mountain in Maine recounts the harrowing true story of 12-year-old Donn Fendler (Luke David Blumm – Son, “The Watcher”), who found himself stranded and alone in the unforgiving wilderness of northern Maine during the summer of 1939. The film not only chronicles Fendler’s fight for survival, but also explores his fractured relationship with his father, whom he may never see again.
The film also stars Paul Sparks (“House of Cards”), Caitlin FitzGerald (The Trial of the Chicago 7, “Succession”), Griffin Wallace Henkel (Armageddon Time), and Ethan Slater (Universal’s upcoming Wicked) and is produced by Sylvester Stallone, Braden Aftergood, Dick Boyce, and Ryan B. Cook.
With Lost on a Mountain in Maine now in theaters nationwide, CinemaChords’ Howard Gorman sat down with Boodhoo Kightlinger who explained what drew him to the inspiring tale of resilience and perseverance at the heart of Fendler’s ordeal, the painstaking process of faithfully re-creating the treacherous terrain and conditions that Fendler endured, and the involvement of Sylvester Stallone as a producer, whose passion for stories of human triumph in the face of adversity was a perfect match for this project.
Given the film’s combination of gripping drama and inspirational themes, Boodhoo Kightlinger also suggested that “Lost on a Mountain in Maine” represents the kind of smaller, character-driven film that he hopes will find greater prominence in an industry often dominated by big-budget spectacles, as these smaller films so often demonstrate cinema’s power to illuminate the extraordinary within the ordinary.
