LOBSTER QUEEN
ELECTRONIC PRESS KIT
SYNOPSIS
They say women are bad luck on a boat. Captain Gail Atkinson never gave a damn. She's spent the last 30 years proving everyone wrong—and taking chances on people nobody else would hire.
But Gail's convictions are put to the test as she faces the storm of the year and an emotional upheaval that shakes her to her core. As she grapples with identity, loneliness, and legacy, Gail finds unexpected purpose providing others the very opportunities that she was once denied.
SPECS
Genre: Documentary
Runtime: 23:30
Resolution: UHD
Frame Rate: 23.98 fps
POSTEr
collaborators
Alix Buck is a documentary filmmaker and editor. After nearly a decade storytelling for humanitarian organizations in the Middle East and Asia, including Oxfam and the United Nations (UNRWA), Alix now creates and collaborates on documentaries in her home country of Canada.
Alix shines when working across cultures and languages (She speaks English, French, Spanish, and is learning Arabic). She loves adventure stories about people defying the odds, badass women, and filmmaking that pushes her to her limits. Alix has worked in desert camps, on lobster fishing boats, and was a tree planter for four years.
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CAST AND CREW
Featuring: Gail Atkinson, Cole Nickerson, Beckie Veinotte, Alex Fletcher
Producer, director, and editor: Alix Buck
Director of photography: Hannah Walsh
Cinematographers: Dario Lozano-Thornton, Alix Buck
Sound recordist: Ian Thompson
Post-production sound: Jorge López Uribe
Colourist: Patrick Gong
Music: Cassie and Maggie
support
We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.
Developed with support from the Whistler Film Festival Doc Lab.