Award-winning producer Jenna MacMillan makes her directorial debut with The Snake, an offbeat comedy film written by and starring Susan Kent, premiering at SXSW Film Festival.
The Snake follows Jamie, an unlikely hero, who can’t seem to get her life together. Featuring a Canadian cast including Robin Duke (Saturday Night Live), Emma Hunter (Slo Pitch), Dan Petronijevic (The Trades, Letterkenny), Jimbo (RuPaul’s Drag Race), and comedy legend Jonathan Torrens (I Kill the Bear, Letterkenny), The Snake re-teams MacMillan and Kent after their success collaborating on Jeremy Larter’s Who’s Yer Father? which broke box office records in Charlottetown.
“SXSW was the festival that inspired me to tell stories like this,” says director and award-winning producer Jenna MacMillan. “We’ve always seen it as the dream festival for The Snake to have its world premiere. To be the first film shot in Prince Edward Island to screen there, and to share my home with SXSW audiences is a real honour.”
Despite her best attempts, Jamie just can’t get it together. The Snake brings us along for a wild ride as Jamie navigates a rocky relationship, a few tussles with her venomous mother, and a recent eviction from her rightful inheritance, her late Nana’s bright-pink house. The Snake brings a new kind of heroine to the screen in this offbeat, dark comedy.
“I started The Snake wanting to write about ungovernable women, bad girls,” says writer and star Susan Kent (Who’s Yer Father?, This Hour Has 22 Minutes), “but not the fantasy of the hot crazy demon-in-the-sack girl trope created by dudes. I wanted to make a story of a woman who came out of the rubble of reality, and so Jamie came into focus, inspired by my life, friends’s lives and women around me, and became an unlikely hero. I have a deep attraction to people who carry on swinging in the face of shitty circumstances. We’ve all been scarred and dented up by our childhood, by life, unintentionally damaged by the people around us, and it felt like a privilege to write a woman who makes everything worse in a sort of fiery crash-course self education in how to be your own home.”
The Snake will have its World Premiere at SXSW Film & TV Festival as part of the Narrative Feature Competition.
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