Independent filmmaker Angela Sheil finds such stuff as dreams are made on Downeast.

By Gwen Thompson

The Indiegogo page for your new movie describes it as a psychological thriller. Take us into the story of The Doublewalker.

Grace Morgan, an aimless, twenty-something only child, returns to her girlhood summer home in Maine with her mother a decade after a family tragedy. The property has been sold, and time is up for Grace to mourn and amend the guilt she’s harbored. As the two check the grounds and reminisce, old ghosts take Grace back to that fateful summer she may have inherited a sinister family curse. 

“Doublewalker” is a transliteration of doppelgänger. Did this storyline arise from deep within your psyche?

During my last semester in film school I was working thirty hours a week in a soul-sucking job at Whole Foods. My first love had just broken up with me, my favorite aunt had died of cancer, and I was fighting with my dad over a family identity crisis. One night I dreamt of a world in which everyone had a clone that was hunting for their “original,” intending to kill them and take their place. My clone had found me, and only when she was dead could I be whole again. I woke up sweating, and my death-of-self nightmare exploded onto the back of an envelope in as much detail as I could remember. It was a literal wake-up call that being stretched in so many different directions was not sustainable. I still have that envelope as a reminder to check in on how I’m doing with all the areas on the pie chart of my life.

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