The Rainbow Kid

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The Rainbow Kid
Film poster
Directed byKire Paputts
Written byKire Paputts
StarringDylan Harman
CinematographyMaya Bankovic
Production
companies
Audiôs Amignes
Makeover Films
Whizbang Films
Train-Train Productions
Distributed byPhase 4 Films
Comedy Central Drama
Release date
  • 1 June 2015 (2015-06-01)
Running time
93 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

The Rainbow Kid is a 2015 Canadian

drama film directed by Kire Paputts. It was shown in the Discovery section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival.[1]

The film, an expansion of Paputts' prior short film Rainbow Connection,[2] stars Dylan Harman as Eugene, a teenage boy with Down syndrome who sees a rainbow following a thunderstorm and, inspired by his favourite book, sets off on a journey to find the pot of gold at the end of it.[3]

Cast

References

  1. ^ "The Rainbow Kid". TIFF. 9 August 2015. Retrieved 9 August 2015.
  2. ^ "East-end filmmakers launch crowdfunding campaign to bring The Rainbow Kid to life". toronto.com, 30 March 2014.
  3. ^ "Searching For A Pot Of Gold; Rainbow Kid avoids usual pitfalls and finds success on many levels". Ottawa Citizen, 6 May 2016.

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