Valerie Buhagiar Commences Wild Media’s Adaptation of ‘The Canine’

Award-winning filmmaker Valerie Buhagiar has commenced principal pictures on “The Canine,” an adaptation of Allan Stratton’s bestselling novel.

“The Canine” revolves round a 13-year-old boy named Cameron and his mom, who’ve spent years escaping Cameron’s mentally sick father. Though generally, Cameron suspects his mom could have kidnapped him. Finally the pair settle right into a dilapidated farmhouse close to Wolf Hallow, a property whose earlier proprietor, Frank McTavish, was killed by his guard canines after his spouse ran off with their son, Jacky, and her lover.

The movie is at present capturing in Northern Ontario. It’s produced by Wild Media Leisure in affiliation with 2ofaMind Productions and funded partly by the Northern Ontario Heritage Fund. Producers embrace James Milligan, Anthony Artibello, Sheila Rogerson and Jason Jallet. Paul Flint, Kevin C. Bjerkness, Perry Dellelce and Brad Pelman function govt producers.

The solid contains Donovan Colan (“Spirit Halloween”), Kathleen Munroe (“Patriot”), Asher Grayson (“Youngsters vs. Aliens”) and Kris Holden-Reid (“The Umbrella Academy”).

Buhagiar helmed the 2021 TIFF Trade Selects movie “Carmen,” which additionally received Finest Movie on the Canadian Movie Fest. Buhagiar’s 2018 movie “It’s Arduous to Be Human” received Finest Canadian Function on the Toronto Feminine Eye Movie Pageant.

““The Canine” is a strong script past being a style movie, it has a poignancy that chills. Our younger protagonist fearlessly propels us ahead in quest of the reality and doing what is correct. That is the type of story I need to inform,” Buhagiar mentioned in a press release.

“The Canine” is at present out to market looking for home and worldwide distribution.