From our 2016 Festival:
Fashion blogger Emma is gearing up for her picturesque summer wedding to longtime boyfriend Colin when she finds out they have to move the wedding up six months. With her best friend, and third wheel roommate Jessie back from travelling, Emma is determined to have her rustic ‘Pinterest’-worthy wedding in the middle of winter. With a small group of friends and family, they trek out to a rural barn for the weekend to set up. Disconnected from the city with their phones off, and insulated in a freezing farm house, Emma and Colin are forced to face how well they truly know each other and the people closest to them.
With tensions rising between estranged family members and personalities colliding in the house, Emma gets cold feet on the eve of her wedding day and confides in her best friend Jessie, who reveals to her the real reason she took off travelling.
Winner of the Audience Choice Award for Best Feature and Best Ensemble at the Canadian Film Festival.
Sponsored by Kim Family Chiropractic
The short film I’m Trying to Melt Your Heart was shown before the main feature.
A Q&A session with director and actor Shaun Benson followed the screening.
Guelph native SHAUN BENSON began his career working as a lead actor on the television series The Associates, Just Cause, andGeneral Hospital. He has since appeared in dozens of television shows and films including the Katherine Bigelow directed K:19 and currently has a recurring on S. Soderbergh’s The Girlfriend Experience. Barn Wedding is his first feature film as director.
