The feature debut of writer/director RT Thorne, 40 Acres is set in a post-apocalyptic Canada where a plague has wiped out all animals, turning many to cannibalism. Danielle Deadwyler plays a mother and former soldier striving to protect her family from a cannibalistic militia.
Co-written with Glenn Taylor from a story by Lora Campbell, the film also stars Kataem O'Connor, Michael Greyeyes, Jaeda LeBlanc, Milcania Diaz-Rojas and Leenah Robinson.
40 Acres is in US cinemas from July 2nd. A UK/ROI release has yet to be announced.
Check out the trailer and poster below.
The official synopsis reads:
As famine spreads across the globe, society is at war and in ruins. But the Freemans are surviving — even thriving — on their ancestral farm so long as they dispatch the occasional raiding party. But what good is surviving the end of the world if it means snuffing out your own humanity? Former soldier Hailey (Danielle Deadwyler) made that choice years ago, believing that isolation was the only way to protect her family. She and her partner Galen (Michael Greyeyes) fled the collapse along with their children, fenced them off from the world, and trained them to fight (and, yes, kill). But now Hailey’s eldest Emanuel (Kataem O’Connor) is a young man, and when he meets a young woman (Milcania Diaz-Rojas) in the forest beyond the fence, his need for human contact could place the whole family in jeopardy.
