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
Luke Becker-Lowe
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
Luke Becker-Lowe
Producer
Nicholas W. Callais
Producer
Stephen Szmed
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