Title: 7 Days with Ivan

Language: English

Country  & Year of  Completion: Canada, 2007

Shooting Format: Digital Video (24p)

Aspect: 16:9

Category: Whatever

Genre: No

Writer, Producer, Director: Vincent Lauzon

DOP: yeah, I wish

Production Designer: maybe next time

Running Time: 75 minutes

Production Company: Borderline Films

Budget: $25,000 CAD (all on the screen) 

7 Days with Ivan is a wildly original, compelling, intense and intelligent, ultra low-budget feature film set at a reclusive cottage north of Toronto, Canada. The film focuses on the torrid and manipulative relationships among three characters. As the story progresses, each of their secrets, lies and hidden agendas are exposed. Themes of seduction, deception, exploitation and control shift and accelerate to a delerious climax.

Originally called 11 Days with Ivan, the film has been cut down from its 2 hour 10 minute running time and now runs at a brisk 75 minutes, effectively cutting 4 days out of the original. The result: a faster-paced narrative and a riveting character study.

Logline:

A reclusive, schizophrenic artist is seduced, manipulated and betrayed by a boisterous old friend and his mysterious European wife.

Short Synopsis

Al, a sensitive, reclusive Canadian Artist living in a remote cottage, is visited by Ivan, a boisterous, erratic, ambitious American friend from college, accompanied by his new wife, Sienna, a beautiful and mysterious woman. Ivan and Sienna urge Al to sell his cottage and invest as a partner in their trading business. They progressively seduce, manipulate, deceive and terrorize Al, who falls in love with Sienna, sending Ivan into fits of violent jealous rage. But through these explosive enounters, and among the expanding and complex web of malicious lies and mischief are sincere truths and half-truths, passion and desperation, love and madness.

The Cast:

AL: Shane Snipes

SIENNA: Linda Dargavel

IVAN: Matt Miller

AL'S SISTER: Anastasia Kimmett

SCORPIO: Dan McNeil

DEAD ENDER: Natalie Tremblay

The Crew:

Writer, Producer, Director, Camera: Vincent Lauzon
Unit Production Manager, Gaffer, Additional Camera: John Roberston
Sound Recording, Lights, Camera Rigging, Stills: Laszlo Szijarto
Set Constr uction: Matt Miller, Laszlo Szijarto
Script Supervisor, Production Assistant, Make-up: Maxime Thomas
Production Assistants: Matt Miller, Michael Kennedy
Cook: Gabor Zsigovics
Editor: Vincent Lauzon

The Music:

Casey Comeau and The Halfmilers
http://www.caseycomeau.com/

"Munly"
"Smow Creatures"
"Day That He Died"



Good2Go
http://good2gomusic.com/

"Mind the Net"
"Boots"

Abolishment
http://abolishment.cjb.net/
"Primitive Years"

"Salvation Denied"
 
Naked i
http://nakedi.ca/

"Laisse-moi t'aimer"
"Painted Rainbows"

Absoutely NO THANKS to:
Canada Council, City of Ottawa, Ontario Arts Council, Telefilm Canada  

Production Notes:

11 Days with Ivan is Vincent Lauzon's first feature film and financed entirely by the filmmaker.



The movie was shot on location north of Ottawa at two cottages in Cayamant, Quebec, in the town of Cayamant and at the Gracefield Camp and Conference Centre over the course of 18 days.