Trapline Lodge
Genre(s): Comedy
Logline: A dark comedy about greed, the pursuit of false grails and moveable real estate.
Synopsis: Three disparate characters (Alan, a womanizing Montreal real estate agent; Etienne, a young, sentimental Metis bush pilot; and Rachel, a tough-as-nails mining town stripper) outwit, outrun, outsmart and outlast each other in a frenetic attempt to reach an old trapper’s cabin in the rugged wilderness of Northern Quebec. The cabin holds a long- lost art world treasure left over from the time of the establishment of New France: a priceless Vermeer painting known as The Widow at Table. The trouble is, the shack has been moved at least twice by its wealthy, eccentric former owner, the late Archibald King, so no one knows exactly where it is. No one, except Mike Molson, a Cree businessman who’s almost as hard to locate as the cabin, and Crazy Pete, a ruthless trapper who will stop at nothing to keep treasure hunters at bay. After a convoluted series of alliances and betrayals, narrow scrapes and near misses, our anti-heroes finally converge on the cabin, only to see it (and themselves) torn apart by rampant greed and a few well-placed bundles of TNT. Alan, the last man standing (barely crawling, actually) is picked up by the slippery Mike Molson and sent home empty-handed, while Mike gets back to his hobby, painting. In fact, he’s copying an old rolled-up canvas he snatched from the rafters of King’s cabin just before it blew up…
Bio: Matt Holland is a screenwriter, story editor and script doctor from Montreal. His writing credits include short films: "Drop Off," "Whistleblowers Anonymous"; episodic television: "Moose TV"; and feature film: "Gone Dark" (a.k.a "The Limit"). Matt has also worked extensively as a development executive, serving as a television content analyst for Telefilm Canada and, more recently, as a manager of development and production for the CTV network. He is a Communications and Creative Writing graduate of Concordia University and a graduate of both the Writer's Lab and the Professional Screenwriting Programme at The Canadian Film Centre.
Matt Holland, writer
Hiatus Productions
5226 Jeanne-Mance Street
Montreal, Quebec
H2V 4K4
tel. 514-270-0518
fax. 514-270-1651
cell. (514) 502-3821
e-mail. hiatus@aei.ca
Agent:
Claude Girard Agency
AGENCE CLAUDE GIRARD
5320, boul. Saint-Laurent
Montreal, QC
H2T 1S1 CANADA