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Home Free

original title: Home Free

2024, 98 min., color, English

CATEGORIES : Drama, Debut
COUNTRY: Canada
PRODUCTION :

Federgreen Entertainment Inc.

BUDGET : $ 255 255

FESTIVALS & AWARDS

CAST

Michelle Golden, Tara Spencer-Nairn, Natalie Brown, Art Hindle, Jill Frappier, Al Mukadam, Gord Rand

CREW

Director :

Avi Federgreen

Screenplay : Reese Eveneshen, Avi Federgreen
Cinematographer : Paul Maxwell
Producers : Avi Federgreen, Laura Tremblay, Emily Foster, Jen Pogue, Emily Andrews, Julia Tomasone

COMMENTS

FESTIVALS: The North Film Fest (Stokholm) 2025, Hollywood New Directors 2025, Laussane IFF 2025, Paris Womans FF 2025, San Francisco Women FF 2025, Tokyo Women FF 2025 The Massachusetts Independent Film Festival 2025, Gasparilla International Film Festival 2025, Florence International Film Festival 2024, New York International Women Festival 2024, Heartland Film Festival 2024, The Pigeon International Film Festival (Iceland) 2024, Calgary International Film Festival 2024, Montreal Independent Film Festival 2024 +++25

DIRECTOR’S NOTE: Thanks to the help of fellow Canadian screenwriter, Reese Eveneshen, we were finally able to shape the original draft of Home Free into a powerful, dramatic story that resonated with me as an artist and one I felt confident I could direct.
It was not only deeply personal but one I wanted to share with audiences who hopefully would be affected by it’s story in many ways. It was an uphill battle to get the film made in the traditional sense, but I knew I had a great crew behind me and an exceptionally talented cast in front of me; if I could get these teams together even on a smaller budget, I could make this work. And that’s exactly what we did! Armed with a small budget and an infinite amount of passion, our small team banded together for 17 days of pure, raw and emotional filmmaking; the likes of which I have never experienced in my 25+ years of making films. This is bar-none the best cast and crew a filmmaker like myself could possibly hope to assemble for a project like this. My goal with this film is to affect viewers the same way films like On Golden Pond, Away From Her, Terms of Endearment, How To Make An American Quilt, Steel Magnolias, and Big Chill have affected me and left an emotional imprint on me. I want our audience to feel like a fly on the wall of the Homur house, feeling welcomed into their warm home, and witness the love our characters Herb and Audrey have for each other and for their family. When I met my wife Alison, I knew we were meant to be together, the same way that Audrey and Herb knew; this is the wild and loyal love I so vehemently desire to express in our film.
I’m incredibly proud of Home Free, and if I never made another film again, I would be overjoyed with this being my last.

SYNOPSIS

Truth will bring them together. Home will set them free.

Herb (Art Hindle) and Audry (Jill Frappier) have had a near perfect relationship for over fifty years. This anniversary Herb has a few surprises in store for his three estranged daughters; Rain (Michelle Nolden) the eldest, Ivy (Tara Spencer-Nairn), the middle child, and Daisy (Natalie Brown), the youngest. Herb, having recently been diagnosed with a fatal brain tumour, announces that he is choosing to die on his own terms and is not seeking treatment. Not only that, but he wants to spend his remaining days getting to know his daughters inner most secrets and finding a way to clear the air between the three.

As the daughters grapple with one another and wrestle their own demons, their father’s condition worsens, and Audry realizes that she’s not ready to say goodbye to her true love. What should be a weekend celebration of life slowly turns into a darker reality as all five family members are forced to look at themselves in ways they never have before.