Fendler

Based on the memoir of the same prosaic name, it’s set in 1939 New England, where 12-year-old Donn Fendler (Luke David Blumm) gets separated from his family in a storm while hiking Maine’s Mt. Katahdin, and winds up wandering alone for more than a week.

In July of 1939, a 12-year-old boy named Donn Fendler became lost while hiking with his family on Katahdin.

The movie is an adaptation of Fendler’s true story of getting lost in the Katahdin wilderness for nine days at age 12 in 1939.

We have to do justice to Donn Fendler’s legacy,” he said.