Review: The Winter Lake
Loretta Goff takes a walk to The Winter Lake to review director Phil Sheerin, writer David Turpin's dark coming-of-age drama.
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David Turpin is a film artist, screenwriter and composer. He wrote the Gothic mystery feature film The Lodgers, directed by Brian O’Malley and produced by Tailored Films. The film premiered in the Contemporary World Cinema strand at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2017 and was subsequently acquired for worldwide distribution by Netflix. Turpin has also worked on The Foundling, a film project for which he developed the creative vision and aesthetic.
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