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Local Sightings 2020 - Eddy's Kingdom [Online]
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Sep. 18-27, 2020
** This film is only available to viewers in the U.S. states of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming. **
Tickets are non-refundable.
Greg Crompton
Canada
2019
1h 25m
Festival - Local Sightings Film Festival 2020: Feature Films
Eddy Haymour had a dream. Born in Lebanon, he immigrated to Canada in 1955, got rich creating a chain of barber shops, married, had children. And when he purchased Rattlesnake Island-a small piece of land in British Columbias Lake Okanagan-in the early 1970, his dream was to turn it into a Middle Easternthemed amusement park. But resistance from local residents and the government turned his dream into an obsession. It would consume not only his life, but the life of everyone around him: a tumult of legal turmoil, financial ruin, grenades, hostages, a daughters love for her father and her fathers overwhelming desire to make his vision a reality. Eschewing simplistic notions of heroes and villains, director Greg Crompton uses a polyphony of voices to tell this multifaceted saga, most notably Eddy Haymours own. By turns explosive, rueful, regretful, and swaggering, Eddys incessant voice is the audiences lifeline in a strange and disquieting saga.
About the filmmaker:
Greg Crompton grew up in Kelowna, British Columbia. He began making documentaries in Sierra Leone in the mid 2000s. He has screened his short documentaries on TV and festivals around the globe.
Eddys Kingdom is Gregs first feature documentary as a director working solo.
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LocationNorthwest Film Forum (View)
1515 12th Ave
Seattle, WA 98122
United States
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