Sublunar Films today announced that the Victoria-shot arthouse genre feature Lucid will begin it’s theatrical run this week. Screenings will take place in Vancouver, Victoria and Edmonton starting May 29th, before expanding to theatres in Kamloops, Hamilton, Montreal, and Toronto this summer with more dates and locations to be announced soon.
Lucid had its world premiered at the Fantasia Film Festival, its US debut at Brooklyn Horror, its European premiere at Sitges, its South American premiere at Fantaspoa and won Best First Canadian Feature at home in Victoria at the Victoria Film Festival this year.
Lucid is described as “a trippy 90s art-punk genre film” starring Caitlin Acken Taylor (Pistol), Georgia Acken (The Sacrifice Game, YAGA), Amber Dandelion, John Luna and Vivian Vanderpuss (RuPaul’s Drag Race) who also designed and wears the hair monster costume.
The debut feature from directors Deanna Milligan and Ramsey Fendall, Lucid “follows Mia, an art student who is on the verge of being expelled from school, as she finds her last hope for combating her creative block in a magical lucid dreaming elixir. Awakening her creativity, the potion also unleashes a number of dark monsters that inhabit her subconscious, one of which is her mother, who appears transformed into a hairy monster that Mia is forced to confront.”
It was also recently announced that the film, which is being released by Filmoption in Canada, was picked up for release by Dark Star in the US with plans for a theatrical and digital release.
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