CineVegas 2009 Preview: ‘Godspeed’

CineVegas 2009 is right around the corner (two days, to be precise), and We Are Movie Geeks are going to be there in full force. Throughout the festival, which runs from June 10th through the 15th, we are going to be bringing you all the coverage you need including reviews, interviews, party breakdowns, and red carpet premiere coverage.

‘Godspeed’ is a film that looks to be more than your typical, run-of-the-mill revenge thriller.  Written by Joseph McKelheer and Cory Knauf (both of ‘The Hamiltons’) and directed by Robert Saitzyk (‘White of Winter’), ‘Godspeed’ is an intense look at loss, faith, and how far one will go for revenge.

Here is the film’s synopsis:

GODSPEED is an intense, dramatic thriller set in the sublime light of Alaska’s midnight sun. Robert Saitzyk directs with adeptness and precision, turning the familiar framework of the revenge genre into a taut and complicated portrayal of a man’s descent into nightmare. Charlie Shepard is a modern-day faith healer, a man who claims that if you let go and believe, then his power to heal is very real indeed. Charlie ekes out a blue-collar existence from his “healing” sessions to support his wife and young son. But just as his business starts to fail and an old drinking habit comes back to haunt him, his family is brutally murdered by unknown assailants for seemingly no reason. Six months later, Charlie has abandoned his former life and moves through the summer days without darkness more like a ghost than a man. But then a mysterious young girl named Sarah shows up in town, looking for Charlie. Will she become the link to his family’s killings?

Buoyed by Joseph McKelheer’s riveting performance and captured in luscious and sensual cinematography, GODSPEED explores faith, grief, and the violent nature that may exist in all of us — where man is as much at the mercy of his own mind as he is at the mercy of the vast Alaskan landscape.

‘Godspeed’ screens on Saturday, June 13th at 6:00 pm and on Sunday, June 14th at 3:00 pm.