Interview with Filmmaker W. James Alexander (A LAKE OF ASHES)

A LAKE OF ASHES, 18min., Canada, Fantasy
Directed by W. James Alexander
In a not too distant future wracked by ecological devastation, a young boy grows up on an isolated lake. Though not yet destroyed by fire, the land he lives on and the lake at its center are slowly dying. As the boy wanders, drawing pictures of the dead animals and decaying landscape, refugees of all sorts start to pour in. Unable to rouse his despondent and abusive father, the boy takes matters into his own hands helping an old woman who is dying of thirst, and hiding from a strange animal-like man that would do him harm until all boils over and chaotic violence consumes the life he knows and casts him to the wind.

http://www.alakeofashes.com/
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Get to know the filmmaker:

1. What motivated you to make this film?

One day I stepped outside and the mountains…