The People Garden

2016 Canadian film

April 14, 2016 (2016-04-14) (Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival)
May 10, 2016 (2016-05-10) (Canada)
September 12, 2016 (2016-09-12) (United States)

Running time

80 minutesCountriesCanada
JapanLanguageEnglish

The People Garden is a 2016 Canadian-Japanese drama film written and directed by Nadia Litz and starring Dree Hemingway, Pamela Anderson, Jai West and François Arnaud. The film premiered at the 2016 Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival.^[1]

Plot

Sweetpea (Dree Hemingway) travels to Japan in order to break up with her rocker boyfriend (François Arnaud). While there, she discovers that her boyfriend has disappeared while shooting a music video in the Aokigahara forest, a place popularly used as a suicide site, and she begins to suspect he has died.

Cast

Dree Hemingway as Sweetpea
Pamela Anderson as Signe
Jai West as Mak
François Arnaud as Jamie

Development

Litz began writing the movie in 2011.^[2]

References

^ Pinto, Jordan. "The People Garden to world premiere in Argentina". Retrieved April 28, 2016.
^ Shepherd, Jeremy. "Searching for a way out in a sea of trees". Retrieved April 28, 2016.