Stray Dogs
Adapted from the play by Julie Jensen
Written & Directed by Catherine Crouch
2001
35 mm
97 minutes
Synopsis:
Set in 1958 and adapted from the award-winning stage play by Julie Jensen, Stray Dogs is a Southern gothic film about the last night of a bad marriage. Darla Carter reaches her turning point this October day, when most of the men in her Appalachian town are engaged in a vicious, chaotic hunt to round up and kill stray dogs. In the afternoon, Darla gets terrifying news: she is pregnant again, and she believes the baby will be a girl. Legend has it that female children cannot survive on Carter Mountain. Darla has lost three female infants in a row, and has come to believe the curse is real. For the sake of her children’s future, she resolves to leave her husband and Carter Mountain once and for all.
Awards:
–Best Newcomer (Acting for Zach Gray) Savannah Film and Video Festival, 2001
Film Credits:
Producer: Yvonne Welbon and Dawn Grey
Photography: Marie-Joelle Rizk
Editor: Sharon Zurek
Music: Ray Nardelli & Josh Horvath
Principle Cast:
Guinevere Turner (Darla Carter)
Bill Sage (Myers Carter)
Dot-Marie Jones(Jolene Carter)
Ryan Kelley (J. Fred Carter)
Zach Gray (Reese Carter)
Distribution:
Netflix and Amazon
