Director Sergio Navarretta has started production on his latest movie, What We Have Left, with Barbara Williams, Tommie-Amber Pirie and Peter MacNeill leading the ensemble drama about a reunion of 1960s hippies in Canada‘s north.
What We Have Left follows Melanie (Williams), a woman in her 70s who invites her once young and idealistic hippie friends for a long-overdue reunion where everyone is told they have inherited the cabin where they once lived together in a commune 50 years earlier.
They are joined by Lyla, played by Ginny & Georgia actor Tommie-Amber Pirie, who is the daughter of their late friend Flora. A clash of generations follows, leading the group to reconcile their past with the present to find new meaning in their lives.
What We Have Left, directed from a screenplay by Alessandra Piccione and Frank Canino, also stars Peter MacNeill, RH Thomson (Anne With an E), Barry Flatman, Terri Hawkes and Joshua Bainbridge and is produced by S.N.A.P. Films and Rusty Halo Productions.
Navarretta in a statement said of his project: “Directing What We Have Left is deeply personal to me. The film is an homage to my parents’ generation, who lived with such strong values and ideals and believed they could change the world. My hope is that audiences will see themselves and their families in this story and feel both moved and inspired.”
Piccione and Rebeka Herron share producer credits on the indie, while Navarretta, Zoran Cocov and Parth Pandey are executive producing, alongside Peter Deeb as an associate producer.
What We Have Left is being shot in Searchmont, Ontario, just north of Sault Ste. Marie, where Navarretta shot his first movie, Looking for Angelina, 20 years earlier, with Piccione and Canino having penned the script for that film as well.
