Disarming in its subtly, A Year in Mooring is the quiet cinematic journey about the inevitability of change.
Starring Josh Lucas in his first leading dramatic role, A Year in Mooring follows the story of a successful businessman (Lucas) attempting to resurrect his life. Entering an idyllic harbor as a broken and haunted man, he buys and boards a dilapidated sailboat.
Walking an isolated line between solitude and redemption, he’s watched by three equally mysterious residents: a waitress (Ayelet Zurer), the veteran mariner (James Cromwell), and a newly single father (Jon Tenney). Directed by Chris Eyre (Smoke Signals). —SXSW
The large-framed and ponytailed filmmaker Chris Eyre is a member of the Cheyenne/Arapaho tribes of Oklahoma. After receiving his M.A. from N.Y.U., he was inspired by the book The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie. Using much of the material from the chapter “This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona,” Alexie adapted his novel into the screenplay for Eyre’s feature-film debut, Smoke Signals. A road movie about two young men from the Coeur d’Alene Indian Reservation, Smoke Signals premiered at Sundance and earned much festival acclaim. After working as a producer and directing the music video “Things We Do” for the blues-rock band Indigenous, Eyre got to work on his second feature film, Skins. Based on the debut novel by poet Adrian C. Louis, Skins is a story about the Ogala Sioux reservation at the site of the infamous Wounded Knee. Starring Graham Greene, the film was highly regarded on the festival circuit and received a limited… read more
