Lakeview (2024)

A queer ensemble comedy set over a weekend at the lake house of a group of lifelong friends

A queer comedy about friends gathering for a divorce celebration at a lakeside retreat, exploring their bonds and personal journeys as they deal with life's challenges.

When a queer friend group unites for a girls' weekend celebrating a divorce, their old feelings, new relationships, and shifting dynamics crash into each other in the shadow of summer’s dying light.

Lakeview is a celebration of the power (and damage) of familiarity, what happens when lessons learned don’t lead to patterns broken, and how one song can change everything you know.

Director Biography - Tara Thorne

Director Biography - Tara Thorne

Tara (she/her) is a recovering journalist in Nova Scotia. She lives in north end Halifax with her cats Winston and Gertie (not pictured).

Director Statement - Tara Thorne

Queer cinema has reached the point where the story doesn’t have to be about coming out, or the love that dare not speak its name, or an historical event in which we fought for our rights. It can be simply about the messiness of life, how complicated and intimate we can be with each other, that love comes in many forms and offers many functions. Even from within the same relationship, when we don’t agree on what those are.

That’s what Lakeview is—a hangout weekend with a group of friends who are ex-partners, -lovers, and maybe -friends by the end of it. It’s about flawed, chaotic, addictive, but fundamentally good women who are just trying to find a little bit of happiness on their own terms. What happens when the sun comes up on a late night soaked in alcohol and shaken by emotional reckonings? We sing a

little song, rinse out the recycling, and keep on living.