Blue State
Role: Chloe Hamon
Director: Marshall Lewy
Writer: Marshall Lewy
Release: Film Festival Circuit in 2007. R1 DVD came out February 12th, 2008
Rating: R
Runtime: 90 min
Genre: Political Romantic Comedy
Filming Locations: Winnipeg, Manitoba; San Francisco, California
Links: Official Site, Photo Gallery, IMDB

Cast:
Breckin Meyer, Adriana O’Neil, Grace Lynn Kung, Darcy Fehr, Leigh Enns

Sypnosis:
John Logue (Breckin Meyer), a committed young activist working on the Kerry campaign, finds himself distraught after watching Bush’s victorious re-election. Aside from being on the losing political end, he must now face up to a promise he made on the eve of the election…. to pick up and move to Canada. With some guidance from an offbeat character named Gloria at a Winnipeg-based internet group called “Marry-ACanadian” and a mysterious travel companion named Chloe (Anna Paquin), Logue packs his bags and heads north.

Other Info:
- 20 day shoot
- Is the first film produced by Anna Paquin and her production company (with her brother) Paquin Films
- Anna’s first executive producer credit
- Anna and Andrew Paquin’s aunt & uncle’s house was used as John Logue’s parents house
- Marshall Lewy and Andrew Paquin went door to door to ask complete strangers if they could film at their house
- Marshall Lewy’s first feature film
- Marshall Lewy originally wanted the film to be improvised and after discussion with Andrew Paquin, he turned it into a screenplay
- The curling scene was originally an ice skating scene
- Premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 29th in New York City
- Anna first read the script while doing reshoots for X3 in 2005
- Chloe pouring orange juice into her cereal wasn’t in the script and was something Anna did because she felt that is what the character would do
- Marshall Lewy’s thesis film to receive his Master’s degree