FINALLY TONIGHT, IT’S A STORY OF SURVIVIAL THAT HAS BEEN READ IN MAINE CLASSROOMS FOR DECADES AND NOW IT COULD BE HEADING TO A THEATER NEAR YOU. A FILM VERSION OF áLOST ON A MOUNTAIN IN MAINEá HAS BEEN PRODUCED BY SYLVESTER STALLONE’S áBALBOA PRODUCTIONS.á IT’S THE STORY OF DONN FENDLER, WHO AT THE AGE OF 12 IN 1939, WAS SEPARATED FROM HIS SCOUT HIS STORY AND RESCUE MADE HEADLINES AROUND THE WORLD. FENDLER WOULD TELL HIS STORY IN CLASSROOMS UP UNTIL HIS DEATH IN 20-16. A PRODUCER ON THE FILM TOLD THE MOVIE WEBSITE áSCREEN DAILYá THAT FENDLER’S STORY HAS BEEN IN THE WORKS FOR DECADES AND THEY ARE HAPPY IT HAS FINALLY BEEN MADE. NO WORD YET ON A RELEASE DATE
Debut date announced for ‘Lost on a Mountain in Maine’ movie
The movie is based on a book that has captured the attention of Mainers for decades
Get ready to see “Lost on a Mountain in Maine” on the big screen.The movie, based on Donn Fendler’s popular book recounting his real-life experience, will debut at the Maine International Film Festival on July 13 at 7 p.m. at the Waterville Opera House.Festival pass holders can buy tickets to the premiere now and individual tickets go on sale June 14, this Friday. The film will get its national release in theaters later this fall. We first learned about the movie earlier this year.The movie is just under 2 hours long and stars Luke David Blumm as Fendler. It also stars Caitlin FitzGerald, Ethan Slater, Paul Sparks and Bates Wilder. It was written by Luke Paradise and directed by Andrew Boodhoo Kightlinger.Sylvester Stallone is listed as one of the producers, along with Braden Aftergood, Dick Boyce, Ryan B. Cook and Heather Grehan.”Lost on a Mountain in Maine” shares Fendler’s experience of being lost on Mount Katahdin as a 12-year-old boy.The festival program provides the following description: “After 85 years, Maine’s perhaps best-known and most beloved book comes to the screen with central Mainers Ryan Cook and Derek Desmond—whose documentary version of the story of Donn Fendler was a prizewinner at MIFF 11 years ago—among the producers on this new, feature version, which stars another Mainer, Camden’s Caitlin FitzGerald. She plays the mother of Donn Fendler, who in 1939, at the age of 12, spent nine long days lost in the wilderness of Mt. Katahdin. The book based on his story, Lost on a Mountain in Maine, became a gigantic hit children’s book the same year the events occurred and has remained a staple in Maine classrooms ever since. This is a very long awaited and anticipated movie, now finally achieved in its premiere showing at MIFF!”
Get ready to see “Lost on a Mountain in Maine” on the big screen.
The movie, based on Donn Fendler’s popular book recounting his real-life experience, will debut at the Maine International Film Festival on July 13 at 7 p.m. at the Waterville Opera House.
Festival pass holders can buy tickets to the premiere now and individual tickets go on sale June 14, this Friday. The film will get its national release in theaters later this fall.
We first learned about the movie earlier this year.
The movie is just under 2 hours long and stars Luke David Blumm as Fendler. It also stars Caitlin FitzGerald, Ethan Slater, Paul Sparks and Bates Wilder. It was written by Luke Paradise and directed by Andrew Boodhoo Kightlinger.
Sylvester Stallone is listed as one of the producers, along with Braden Aftergood, Dick Boyce, Ryan B. Cook and Heather Grehan.
“Lost on a Mountain in Maine” shares Fendler’s experience of being lost on Mount Katahdin as a 12-year-old boy.
The festival program provides the following description: “After 85 years, Maine’s perhaps best-known and most beloved book comes to the screen with central Mainers Ryan Cook and Derek Desmond—whose documentary version of the story of Donn Fendler was a prizewinner at MIFF 11 years ago—among the producers on this new, feature version, which stars another Mainer, Camden’s Caitlin FitzGerald. She plays the mother of Donn Fendler, who in 1939, at the age of 12, spent nine long days lost in the wilderness of Mt. Katahdin. The book based on his story, Lost on a Mountain in Maine, became a gigantic hit children’s book the same year the events occurred and has remained a staple in Maine classrooms ever since. This is a very long awaited and anticipated movie, now finally achieved in its premiere showing at MIFF!”
