No Men Beyond This Point

No Men Beyond This Point
Directed by Mark Sawers
Written by Mark Sawers
Starring Patrick Gilmore
Distributed by Samuel Goldwyn Films
Release date
  • 27 January 2015 (2015-01-27) (IFFR)
Running time
 80 minutes
Country Canada
Language English

No Men Beyond This Point is a 2015 Canadian comedy film directed by Mark Sawers.[1] It was shown in the Vanguard section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival and acquired for distribution by Samuel Goldwyn Films (worldwide rights excluding Canada).[2]

Plot

The film is a science fiction mockumentary set in an alternate timeline where in the 1950s, human females began reproducing by parthenogenesis. Nine months after a near-Earth object almost hit Earth in 1952, the first fatherless baby is born. Sexual reproduction became rarer and rarer, and the babies born by way of parthenogenesis were all female, so that by the 2010s (when the mock documentary is filmed), the youngest male human on Earth is 37 years old; he is the ostensible subject of the mock documentary.[3][4]

Cast

  • Patrick Gilmore as Andrew Myers
  • Kristine Cofsky as Iris Balashev
  • Rekha Sharma as Ajala Bhatt
  • Tara Pratt as Terra Granger
  • Cameron McDonald as Darius Smith

Accolades

At the 2015 Vancouver International Film Festival, the BC Spotlight jury offered an honourable mention to No Men Beyond This Point in the Best BC Film category.[5] At the 2015 Other Worlds Austin SciFi Film Festival, No Men Beyond This Point won the Best Feature Audience Award and also won “Cthulhies” for Feature Script, Feature Actor, and Feature Editing.[6]

References

  1. ↑ "No Men Beyond This Point". IFFR. 9 August 2015. Retrieved 9 August 2015.
  2. ↑ Patrick Hipes (5 October 2015). "'No Men Beyond This Point' Sci-Fi Comedy Lands At Samuel Goldwyn". Deadline.com. Retrieved 1 January 2016.
  3. ↑ Richard Scheib (2015). "No Men Beyond This Point (review/discussion)". MORIA. Retrieved 1 January 2016.
  4. ↑ Richard Whittaker (13 November 2015). "Other Worlds Austin proclaims No Men Beyond This Point". The Austin Chronicle. Retrieved 1 January 2016.
  5. ↑ "VIFF Announces BC Spotlight and Canadian Images Awards" (Press release). Vancouver International Film Festival. 3 October 2015. Retrieved 11 October 2015.
  6. ↑ "Other Worlds Austin 2015 Award Winners" (Press release). Other Worlds Austin. 9 December 2015. Retrieved 1 January 2016.
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