Float (2023 film)

Float is a Canadian film, directed by Sherren Lee and released in 2023. The film stars Andrea Bang as Waverly, a young woman with a tense relationship with her parents who decides to spend the summer before starting university staying with her aunt in coastal beach town of Tofino, who is drawn into a romance with lifeguard Blake (Robbie Amell) when he gives her swimming lessons.[1]

The cast also includes Andrew Bachelor, Rukiya Bernard, Michelle Krusiec, Sarah Desjardins, Ghazal Azarbad and Tristan Arthurs.

The film was written by Lee and Jesse LaVercombe, as an adaptation of a Wattpad story by writer Kate Marchant.[2] The character of Waverly was not written as being of Asian ancestry in the original story, but Lee chose to write the film adaptation that way so that she could draw on some of her own cultural background.[1]

The film premiered at the 2023 Vancouver International Film Festival, and will screen in the Canadian Narrative Competition at the 2023 Calgary International Film Festival.[3]