Event to celebrate film ‘The Passing Season’ — filmed in Little Compton

Posted 4/23/17

LITTLE COMPTON — Feature film “The Passing Season,” shot mostly in Little Compton, the hometown of director Gabriel Long, will be celebrated at Aurora Providence with a special screening and …

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Event to celebrate film ‘The Passing Season’ — filmed in Little Compton

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LITTLE COMPTON — Feature film “The Passing Season,” shot mostly in Little Compton, the hometown of director Gabriel Long, will be celebrated at Aurora Providence with a special screening and release party on May 10. The event marks the film’s release on Amazon, iTunes.

Mr. Long and his wife and producer Rebecca Atwood will be in attendance. After shooting the film Little Compton, the filmmaker pair decided to leave Brooklyn and make Providence their permanent home.

The party and film screening is free and open to the public (although not suited for youngsters). Showtime is 6:30 p.m. (running time is 67 minutes) at Aurora Providence, 276 Westminster St.

The film follows Sam Alden, a professional hockey player whose career comes to a sudden end.  Alden (played by Sense8 star Brian J. Smith) returns to his hometown and reconnects with a group of buddies who never left rural Rhode Island.

Picking up where he left off after high school, he tries to leave his failed career behind and return to a simpler, more exciting time in his life. But recapturing innocence turns out to be more complicated than he imagined, and the harder he pursues adventure and escape, the wider the rift becomes between his youthful dreams and his adult reality.

Little Compton was both a great place to spend childhood and a superb backdrop for the film, Mr. Long said.

 “If you grow up in a beautiful place, there's a seductive quality to your hometown.  You think about the magic of that beauty and think about the sense of possibility that you felt riding around with your high school crush. It’s tempting to think that by returning to the place you can return to that feeling,” he said.

“The reality is that those feelings are about being young, and going back to the place where they happened isn't going to bring them back.  That’s something I’ve struggled with, and it’s what Sam struggles with in the film.”

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