(
2024
)

Seagrass

A Japanese-Canadian woman grapples with the death of her mother as she brings her family to a retreat. When her relationship with her husband begins to affect the children's emotional security, the family is changed forever.

SYNOPSIS

Set a decade or so in the past, Meredith Hama-Brown’s debut feature tells the story of a family on the verge of coming closer together — 
or drifting further apart.

Judith (Ally Maki) is Japanese Canadian; her husband Steve (Luke Roberts) is white. They’re having some problems communicating with each other, so they’ve found a family retreat on the Pacific coast where kids can hang out while their parents confront one another in group-therapy sessions. But the time together exposes new fractures in the family’s internal dynamic: 11-year-old Stephanie (Nyha Breitkreuz) starts acting out, while six-year-old Emmy (Remy Marthaller) insists she can feel Judith’s recently departed mother watching over them all.

Whether or not Emmy is right, something is certainly hanging over this family — a cloud of tension and dissatisfaction between Judith and Steve that neither can fully articulate, but both recognize. And the more time Judith spends around another couple, Carol (Sarah Gadon) and Pat (Chris Pang), the more she worries that saving her marriage might not be the best move.

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Cast

Judith Ally Maki

Steve Luke Roberts

Stephanie Nyha Huang Breitkreuz

Emmy Remy Marthaller

Carol Sarah Gadon

Pat Chris Pang

Sam Hannah Bos

John Gabriel Carter

Jeremiah Miles Phoenix Foley

Newscaster Kate Gajdosik

Matt Benjamin Goas

Jessica Ava Kelders

Jenny Milania Kerr

Leanne Danielle Klaudt

Tyler Nathan Parrott

Justin Sawyer Proulx

Karaoke Host Kane Stewart

Vicky Stella Watson

crew

Directed by Meredith Hama-Brown

Writing Credits Meredith Hama-Brown

Produced by Sara Blake, Tyler Hagan, Meredith Hama-Brown, Kathleen Hepburn, Norm Li, Ally Maki, Chad Shields, Tony Yang

Music by Oscar Vargas

Cinematography by Norm Li

Editing by Shun Ando, Kane Stewart

Casting By Jenny Jue

Production Design by Louisa Birkin

Art Direction by Claudia Tyzo

Costume Design by Athena Theny

Makeup Department Abby Collver, Piper Kinnear, Cassandra Kleinschroth, Isabel Paganine

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director Jade Blair, Aurore Dupont-Sagorin, Anthony Epp,
Helena Thom

Sound Department David Daoud, Matt Drake, Matias Gibbs, Alex Lara, Oscar Vargas

Visual Effects by Antonio Gallardo

Stunts Roberta Cenedese, Jennifer Clarke, Grant Smith

Camera and Electrical Department Jared Boyce, Norm Li, Tin-Chun Liu, Yannie Yu

Casting Department Jacqui Kaese

Costume and Wardrobe Department Leta Cushing-Woodcock, Aurore Dupont-Sagorin

Editorial Department Ryan Mance, Jeremiah Reyes, David Tomiak

Location Management John P. Alviz

Music Department Cody Partridge

Script and Continuity Department Julie Zhu

Additional Crew Nic Altobelli, Shaylen Anita, Tolmie Greaves, Caryl J. Horan, Nicola Pender,
Ahmed Seedat, Tessa Tamura, Carmel Tanaka

Awards

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1
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Canadian Screen Awards, CA

Achievement in Costume Design
Achievement in Hair

2024

Vancouver Film Critics Circle

Best Screenplay for a Canadian Film

Best Supporting Male Actor in a Canadian Film

Best Supporting Female Actor in a Canadian Film


One to Watch


Best British Columbia Film

2024

Young Artist Awards

Best Performance in a Feature Film: Leading Young Actress

2024

International Film Critics Association

FIPRESCI Prize

2023

Canada’s TIFF

Top Ten Showcase

2023

Festival du nouveau cinéma

National Competition
Winner - National Competition - Feature Films

2023

Cinéfest Sudbury

Winner - Outstanding Canadian Feature Film Award

2023

Toronto International Film Festival

Winner - FIPRESCI Prize

2023

São Paulo International Film Festival

Best Fiction

2023

REVIEWS

"While it’s difficult not to wish that Gadon’s character had more to do, the memorable performances, unique atmosphere, and stunning 35mm cinematography all serve to solidify Hama-Brown as an exceptional talent."
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Heidy Morales
Hye's Musings
While there are plenty of great films that have been about this subject, Seagrass is one that takes familiar elements and infuses them with something often closer to horror. It doesn’t fully leap into it as much as it falls into its oddly haunting beauty.
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Chase Hutchinson
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