Chained (2020 film)

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Chained
Directed by Titus Heckel
Written byTitus Heckel
Produced byRachelle Chartrand
Chester Sit
Starring Marlon Kazadi
Aleks Paunovic
Adrian Holmes
Cinematography Vince Arvidson
Edited byJackie Dzuba
Music byAlfredo Santa Ana
Production
company
My Precious Pictures
Distributed by Freestyle Digital Media
Release date
  • October 1, 2020 (2020-10-01)(VIFF)
Running time
104 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

Chained is a 2020 Canadian thriller drama film, written and directed by Titus Heckel. [1] The film stars Marlon Kazadi as Taylor, a Black Canadian teenage boy subjected to abuse by his father Pete (Adrian Holmes); he meets and befriends Jim (Aleks Paunovic), a criminal who has been left chained up in an abandoned warehouse, only to begin turning into an abuser himself as he learns the power of using violence to get what he wants. [1]

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The film was produced in British Columbia in fall 2019, [2] with shooting taking place in Kelowna and at the abandoned Kaleden hotel in Kaleden. [3]

The film premiered at the 2020 Vancouver International Film Festival. [1] It was included in the festival's online streaming platform, but was also one of the few films at the festival given a socially distanced physical screening at the VIFF Centre. [1]

The film received six Vancouver Film Critics Circle award nominations at the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards 2020, for Best Actor in a Canadian Film (Kazadi), Best Supporting Actor in a Canadian Film (2: Holmes, Paunovic), Best Screenplay for a Canadian Film (Heckel), Best British Columbia Film and One to Watch (Heckel). [4]

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  4. Jorge Ignacio Castillo, "POSSESSOR AND CHAINED DOMINATE THE VFCC NOMINATIONS FOR BEST IN CANADIAN FILM" Archived 2021-04-21 at the Wayback Machine . Vancouver Film Critics Circle, February 3, 2021.