Dormancy
2018•16m•Released
DramaHistory
Set in 1932, at the height of prohibition and the growing American eugenics movement, the state of Vermont passes a law allowing for sexual sterilization of "idiots, imbeciles, feeble minded or insane persons likely to procreate." Dormancy follows a young woman and her new husband who work the land and earn a small income herding sheep and working with lumber. The couple is lured into a rural clinic where they subjected to the sadistic goals of the doctors and eugenics field workers. For this modest family, life will never be quite the same...
Director
Nicholas W. Callais
Writer
Luke Becker-Lowe, Nicholas W. Callais
Budget
$0M
Studio
ACID Digital Media Productions
Cast
Pierre-Luc Désilets
Jacob Cloutier
Lee Goldberg
Emily Cloutier
Blanca Vivancos
Mother Ann
Dennis Cunningham
Dr. Geralds
Jessica Rheault
Nurse #1
Nicholas W. Callais
Doctor #2
Michael Bartz
Doctor #3
Production
Company
ACID Digital Media Productions
Producer
Nicholas W. Callais
Producer
Luke Becker-Lowe
Producer
Stephen Szmed
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