The Beast of Bottomless Lake

A friend of mine made a movie! And it won a prize!

Kennedy Goodkey is a good friend and his movie is a feature film that he’s been working on for many years about Canada’s mythical lake beast, Ogopogo. After watching him hammer away on this project for what seems like forever, I am thrilled to announce that the film just won the best-in-festival award at its very first festival, beating out competition like Woody Harrelson’s Defendor. The film is The Beast of Bottomless Lake:

Deep in the waters of the bottomless lake known as Okanagan, lives the serpent like creature, Ogopogo. Some say it’s a myth, others say they’ve seen it. For Dr. Paul Moran, Cryptozoologist, it could be his ticket to fame and fortune and the validation he’s always been searching for.

Follow Dr. Moran and his team of dedicated and not so dedicated adventurers as they embark on a hilarious and sometimes tragic expedition to prove the existence of the creature and change our perception of the world as we know it. Oh, and claim the two-million dollar bounty that goes along with it.

Winning a prize right out of the gate like that is a huge deal, and nicely timed since Kennedy is soon to start work on another long term project — parenthood — and would probably really enjoy having a hit show right about now. Congratulations, Kennedy!

Support the film on the evening of July 21!

If you can’t actually get to Kelowna for the next screening — and of course most of you don’t know where that is and couldn’t get there even if you did — then just tweet about it. A few seconds of your time for the love of independent film. Kennedy sez:

We're planning a Twitter blast on opening night, July 21. From the start of the pre-show talk until the end of the Q&A we're trying to get as many people to post about the screening as possible. So between 6:30 PDT and 10:00 PDT (roughly) if people can tweet anything that relates to the screening and add our hashtag — for people who can't be there I'd suggest “Wish I could be at the World Premiere of The Beast of Bottomless Lake #thebeast” as well as any of the many possible links that they could use from our website, the Okanagan Film Fest website or our YouTube videos.

Do it!