#FIRSTLOOK: “LITTLE LORRAINE” CANADIAN RELEASE PATTERN

LITTLE LORRAINE will be in theatres beginning April 17, 2026 via Photon Films.

Selected Official Selections:
Toronto International Film Festival 2025 – world premiere
Atlantic International Film Festival 2025 – Best Director (Andy Hines) and Best Actor (Stephen McHattie)
Calgary International Film Festival 2025
Windsor International Film Festival 2025
Whistler Film Festival 2025
Santa Barbara International Film Festival 2026

Synopsis:
Directed by Grammy-nominated Andy Hines (feature film debut), based on a true story and Adam Baldwin’s song “Lighthouse in Little Lorraine”. Between 1986 and 1990, Little Lorraine (Cape Breton) became embroiled in an international cocaine smuggling operation under the noses of multiple governments and federal agencies, distributing drugs and money in coffins driven around in hearses by a network of funeral homes. Experienced through the eyes of three entrapped best friends (Stephen Amell, Joshua Close, Steve Lund), LITTLE LORRAINE tells the gripping true tale of how this unlikely story was born, prospered and imploded over a season in the life of this township.

Principal Cast:
Stephen Amell (Arrow, The Flash, The Borderline) as Jimmy
Auden Thornton (Broke, This is Us, Beauty Mark) as Emma
J Balvin (feature film debut – best-selling Latin artist, winner of 11 Billboard Latin Music Awards; 4 Grammy Award nominations; Guinness World Records acknowledged him as a “leader of a second-generation reggaeton revolution”) as Lozano
Sean Astin (The Lord of the Rings Film Series, Stranger Things, The Conners) as Father Williams
Matt Walsh (Vladimir, Veep, Ghosts) as Captain Douglas
Rhys Darby (Guns Akimbo, Wrecked, Flight of the Conchords) as Tim
Stephen McHattie (My Animal, Orphan Black, Pontypool) as Huey
Joshua Close (Wayward, American Solitaire, A Breed Apart) as Tommy
Kaelen Ohm (From, Hit & Run, Last County) as Alice
Hugh Thompson (What We Dreamed of Then, Sullivan’s Crossing, Reacher) as Gordy
Steve Lund (Sullivan’s Crossing, Schitt’s Creek, Bitten) as Jake
Directed by: Andy Hines (feature film debut)
Screenplay by: Andy Hines, Adam Baldwin
Based on a song by Adam Baldwin called “Lighthouse in Little Lorraine”.

Editors: Jeff Betancourt, Anna Hauger, Yoni Reiss
Cinematographer: Jeff Powers
Composer: Blain Morris
Production Designers: Krystyna Byers
Costume Designer: Olivia Hines

Producers: Tim Doiron, James van der Woerd, Michael Volpe
Executive Producers: Nic Neary, Vanessa Amodeo, April Mullen

Country: Canada
Runtime: 115 minutes
Language: English

Canadian Distributor: Photon Films