Five years in the making, “Finding Home” stars Academy Award winner Louise Fletcher, best known for her role opposite Jack Nicholson in “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.” It also features Golden Globe Award winner Geneviève Bujold; and Justin Henry, the Academy Award nominated child star of “Kramer vs. Kramer” and star of John Hughes’ “Sixteen Candles.”

Shot almost entirely in Maine, the widescreen drama has garnered numerous awards on the festival circuit, including four Best Picture awards, the most recent at the Memphis Int’l Film Festival, as well as Best Director and Best Actress honors at the Monaco Int’l Film Festival. It was also named Best of the Festival at both the Sarasota and Nashville Film festivals. Producer Victoria Paige Meyerink was honored with the Montreal World Film Festival’s Excellence in Producing Award.

“Finding Home” is the story of Amanda, an ambitious young executive from New York who struggles to reclaim her life and love when she is forced to return to her grandmother’s remote island inn off the rugged Maine coast. As Amanda unravels the mysteries of her family’s troubled past, she makes discoveries that cause her to re-evaluate her own life and values. The story focuses on the struggles, memories, actions and triumphs of three generations of Maine coast women; it also highlights the tricky and sometimes terrifying nature of memory, addressing such important social and psychological issues as sexual responsibility, divorce, abuse, deception and repressed memories.

The film also stars Jeannetta Arnette (“Boys Don’t Cry”), Johnny Messner (“Anacondas”), Academy Award nominee and Pulitzer Prize winner Jason Miller (“The Exorcist,” “That Championship Season”) in his final performance, and Lisa Brenner (Mel Gibson’s co-star in “The Patriot” and star of Stephen King’s “Diary of Ellen Rimbauer”).

Steven Spielberg, Michael Cimino and John Landis consulted on this powerful story of forgiveness, reconciliation and redemption for which the filmmakers erected a full service temporary movie studio near Stonington on Deer Isle and faced the challenges of marine filming and 14-foot tidal shifts. They also had to extend the New England “fall color” from Labor Day until Christmas.

After producing four successful features with Foldes, Meyerink was diagnosed in 1998 with an acoustic neuroma, a deep-seated brain tumor that, if surgically removed, would have left her deaf in one ear with the possibility of facial paralysis, imbalance, and other serious side effects. A portion of the film’s proceeds will be donated to fund further research at the New England Gamma Knife Center at Rhode Island Hospital.

For more information about the film, go online to www.FindingHomeMovie.com