North Mountain (film)


North Mountain is a Canadian action thriller film, released in 2015. Written and directed by Bretten Hannam and billed as a "cross between Brokeback Mountain and Rambo", the film stars Justin Rain as Wolf, a young Mi'kmaq hunter who encounters Crane, a wanted fugitive, in the forest. The two men fall in love and begin a relationship, which is tested when the gangsters looking for Crane arrive.
Shot near Kejimkujik National Park in January 2015, the film premiered on September 23, 2015 at the Atlantic Film Festival. It screened at various LGBT film festivals, including Toronto's Inside Out Film and Video Festival and the Vancouver Queer Film Festival, in 2016, and received a limited commercial run in 2018 at Toronto's Carlton Theatre.