Dormancy (2018)
Set in 1932, at the height of prohibition and the growing American eugenics movement, the state of Vermont passes a law allowing for sexual sterilization of "idiots, imbeciles, feeble minded or insane persons likely to procreate." Dormancy follows a young woman and her new husband who work the land and earn a small income herding sheep and working with lumber. The couple is lured into a rural clinic where they subjected to the sadistic goals of the doctors and eugenics field workers. For this modest family, life will never be quite the same...
Directors: Nicholas W. Callais, Luke Becker-Lowe.
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Pierre-Luc Désilets as Jacob Cloutier |
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Lee Goldberg as Emily Cloutier |
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Blanca Vivancos as Mother Ann |
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Dennis Cunningham as Dr. Geralds |
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Jessica Rheault as Nurse #1 |
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Nicholas W. Callais as Doctor #2 |
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Michael Bartz as Doctor #3 |
| Production | Nicholas W. Callais | Producer |
| Production | Luke Becker-Lowe | Producer |
| Directing | Nicholas W. Callais | Director |
| Sound | Benjamin Knorr | Music |
| Directing | Luke Becker-Lowe | Director |
| Production | Stephen Szmed | Producer |
| Writing | Luke Becker-Lowe | Writer |
| Crew | Luke Becker-Lowe | Cinematography |
| Writing | Nicholas W. Callais | Writer |
| Editing | George Geanopulos | Editor |
| Camera | Matheus Bastos | Camera Operator |
| Sound | Logan Romjue | Sound Editor |