Wilderness Survival for Girls

Running time: 80 mins

Eli Depres and Kim Roberts? Wilderness Survival for Girls is an edge-of-your-seat thriller that explores the rich and intoxicating inner lives of teenage girls when three best friends spend one last weekend together before they go their separate ways.

Ruth, Deborah and Kate arrive at an idyllic and remote cabin high in the Rockies and settle in for an evening of beer, pot and fun. As events unfold, the girls start to reveal their deepest secrets, and the good time becomes a little more intense than anticipated.

The discovery of a male squatter does not help matters, especially with the girls? knowledge of an unsolved murder and the suspected killer wandering the mountains. Not taking chances, they tie him up and hold him captive. During the course of the night, the girls confront not only their fears of the stranger, but also their most hidden feelings, their sexuality, and the truths about themselves.

As suspenseful as it is, Wilderness Survival for Girls is much more than a thriller. It is a complex examination of the inner lives of typical teenage girls.

Sandy Wolf

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EMERGING MAVERICKS / NEW VISIONS