The Mushroom Huntress - a short film made in Maine on Mount Desert Island
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- Опубликовано: 9 фев 2025
- After Leigh is cut off from her cold, wealthy mother, and witnesses the arrest of her loving-yet-scheming father, she attempts to support herself by capitalizing on her love of wild mushrooms. But one day, while foraging along the forest floor, she discovers a shocking family secret.
Produced by Good To Go Studios
Story by: Lynne Williams
Produced by: Kyle Lamont and Eddie Contento
Directed by: Jim Picariello
Written by: Lynne Williams and Jim Picariello
Starring: Lacey Hannan & Hoyt Richards
Many thanks to everyone who made this film possible.
Learn more at GoodToGoStudios.com 
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Okay, Good to Go, your on the hook for a sequel. We want to know how the prison break goes.
Thanks! Well done.
Nice work, i have lived in Maine my whole life, been a cook forever,foraged wild mushrooms and built fairy houses with my children as well. Beautifully filmed , thank you
That is so sweet!
Lucky you.
You had magic in your childhood..❤
💓 touching,Cong..
This is such a cool story and concept, definitely would LOVE to see this as a mini series!!
Today is spring equinox , I'm just returning from a walk in the woods where I contacted my favorite spirits ... now at home , the algorithm is offering me this . That's magical .
Thank you for the magic
Wow! Very nice!
Thank you! That is really sweet of you to say!
That was awesome 👍👍👍
Such an awesome little story. This is something I would watch as a series if it was made into one.
Cute film. I live in a forest, and I love to paint and sketch and eat mushrooms. So I guess I am one of the mushroom huntresses, too. This story really caught my imagination.
I love a good fairy tale 🥰🥰 thank you for making this and giving me the warm and fuzzies!!
Just beautiful…I’ve been having a very tough week. This genuinely made me feel happy for the first time this week. Thank you 💚🙏🏼
This was great! I loved the visuals in the forest.
The musical accompaniment was just right, too.
Wow! I want more! More story. I love tales like these.
Lovely story. Great filming .
I thoroughly enjoyed this! Not too dramatic or over the top, just a nice little story with a brilliant twist! I hope there's a second installment 😊
A great gentle story worth telling.
Ohhh this should be a longer movie I love it !!
What a delightful, spirit-lifting small treasure!
We Heart You!
I thoroughly enjoyed this short film. I believe in Fairies! 🧚♀️
Hello how are you doing?
I loved this! It really felt magical!
Hello how are you doing?
❤Oh, my heart!❤ This is so cute💕 More!!!
Hi how are you doing?
Oh W@W!! What a Delightful Film and Production!! I REALLY NEEDED This! Life needs a Pick Me Up more and more, these days.. Blessings of that Special Magic and Love to All!! How I Miss MDI and Down East!! What A Gift!! Thank You!! Hope to see more!!💯🌹🌹💐🌌🏞🌊🌄🌲🌲🌲🍀🙋🤗
Beautiful little story...I'm crying and smiling and don't know why
The sweetest little story! I am a child again! 🤗😍❤🙏🏼
More of these please! Exactly like this.❤❤❤🍄🍄🍄
Wow - that is so encouraging to know! Thank you!
What a magical film!
That was really good. Thanks for sharing that. What a great treat.
Photo shooting is amazing here! ❤️🔥
Thank you for noticing :)
Now l want to put Fairy Houses all over my Yard in the Gardens! 😊
that is really cute! I love mushrooms and I enjoy the mythology of the fae.
Simply Brilliant!!!
Quality ,nice twist,10/10 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Simply wonderful
I love that. Thank you ❤️
My mom sent me the link to this, it's very nice!
Delightfully engaging! The gorgeous forest shots are filled with Rock Faerie wonder!
I don’t see how people are loving this and thinking it’s so cute. lol Why wouldn’t the dad tell her she is a fairy? Why did there have to be a conflict w/the dad? He started out nice when she was young and then suddenly turned into a criminal? Why would a fairy need to break the law and ‘scheme’? Why couldn’t he just tell her who she really was? Why did the guy in the woods make her fall asleep alone in the woods? Why on earth did he do that? The ‘foraging’ of the mushrooms was a weird job. This was just weird. And why did the daughter have to find out she was a fairy ONLY when they needed to ‘break him out of jail? ‘ Such a weird short. lol
I want to see more of that!!!!❤❤
I have so many thoughts on this short film. I can see why it's so highly acclaimed. The storytelling is amazing, and (without spoiling it) there were quite a few places that completely caught me off guard because the foreshadowing was slipped in so well. The acting is also far above what I have seen most short films. A lot of time and attention went into telling this incredible story, and it's one I'm still unpacking and thinking about days after I've seen it.
Wow! Love it...
Hi how are you doing?
I REALLY needed this story today! Thank You
WOW! What a pleasant surprise! Well DONE Jim! Well Done indeed!
Thank you!!! Really proud of this one ☺️
This was Great! 💯
Very cute! Used to live in Maine back in the early 70s, remember moss covered woods and magical places...
It's always so special to take a walk with the Maine woods.
How delightful!!! Definitely need more!!!!
Wow what a beautiful story. Thank you
Great story ( & mini movie ! ) Hope theres more to come !
This is a great story!
That was such a nice story. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it!
This needs to be a movie or mini series!
Beautiful!
"Remember darling the prettiest ones are the most dangerous".
Amazing 💙💙💙
Sweet!
Oh, this is just gorgeous. Did you think I wasn't going to be your 99th subscriber just for that reason alone!? Of course...and the talented film as well 🍄 can't wait to see what your future shows us. I love this so much.
Just wonderful :)
Spent a decade on MDI, funnily enough, sculpting fairy folk! Beautiful place. I miss it often.
Me, halfway in: DO NOT TAKE THE FAIRY FOOD.
Also me, 2/3 of the way: I AM SO IN.
How sweet!!
Beautifully filmed and acted. Nice!
Thank you so much 😀
Your movie was awesome! We need Faerie Magic back in our lives❤🦋
We agree!
Charming story
I agree! Loved it!
Excellent.
Very well done!
I watch a fair amount of short stories and very few are much good, but this story has potential. I want to see what happens next, I like the idea and the characters are extremely interesting. I would watch every episode, but it would have to be on RUclips. I don't have any other source for video entertainment, since financial problems forced cancelation of any ongoing subscriptions I did have. It's been an "interesting" adjustment. But RUclips has quite a lot of quality stuff available on this platform for free. I'm content with it for now. I just subscribed and I am happy to share this video with everyone I talk to. My life is fairly simple and kind of boring compared to some people I know, so the things I see on RUclips come up in conversations I have with family and friends. Excellent work all the way around, concept, character development, storyline, casting, directing, acting and cinematography. This story has it all, I'm enthralled already. Good day. 👍
So cool. But then I think everything to do with mushrooms is cool. Could easily be extended. Great concept. It could mushroom.
Who doesn’t love a fairy tale, especially involving mushrooms!
Really cool flick, I live in Maine and I have seen things in the woods. One early evening I was taking my walk and this strange bark like creature went out right in front of me, I was scared but it looked at me and dragged it's root like legs off back into the woods. Crazy..but very true. Will never forget that nite.
🤯🤯🤯
I believe you, I would like to hear more stories like yours. I have a few of my own but they don't involve seeing creatures.
Also I know of family from Maine. My boyfriend is one of them. I live in northwest United States
Great stuff !!
Thank you so much for watching :)
Bravo! Well done. Engaging and fun.
Thank you so much!
My wife is pretty good at hunting down the mini button mushroom, especially in the morning dew.
Just stumbled across this and so glad I did! Please continue the story!!!
Great short....I need to tell my husband.... he'll love it too.
Thanks for sharing 🌻🖖
Please do!
love it
More please, that was magical
Wow i wanted it to last. That was a good story. I wanted it to last longer
Need a part 2
Hello 👋 how are you doing?
I stopped what I was doing to watch this!
How sweet is that - thank you!
Amazing short story 😍
Thank you! 🙂
I loved it! 😍 But I wanted to see inside…😒😏
Stay tuned :)
Wonderful!
Many thanks!
This is divine ♥️
I'm going to build a fairy house in my woodland garden !!
Ah, the magic. The “Christmas Mushroom . Santa’s magic also came from ‘somewhere’
Hi how are you doing?
INDEED GOODNESS IS A BLESSING
Echo!!
Is it just me or did anyone else find it awkward to hear a father refer to his daughter as”my love”, “my darling”, “honey” all while his wife, her mother, was standing nearby. And such a father! Involved in an IRS investigation into a dramatic scheme, “creative” business dealings, and arrested in public by the FBI on Grand Larceny charges!! AND A “kind” fairie casting sleep spells, moving in on her business and wanting to discuss with her “how we can break your dad out of prison”! I was expecting something magical and wonderful but came away with too many disturbing questions.
I always find P. frondosus at the bottom of big old live oak trees. They are the best but like a lot of times the beetles get to them first. I know that here in new York you can not sell wild mushrooms because you have to prove that you know what you are doing and I don't think that ever got spelled out how to do that. Not sure how other states are. If you can just figure out how to grow truffles commercially you can name your price. If you want to pick remember to find an old person that knows the ropes. As they say there are old mushroom hunters and bold mushroom hunters but no old bold mushroom hunters.
Loved it❤
Thank you so much!
When the shittaki hits the fan, it's good to know folks in low places.
I want to see this in a film.
Daymn, anything is possible when u r high on mushrooms ...!!! Is this the moral of this lit'l story?!!!
Magically sweet and delicious.
❤ Made in Maine
It was too short, gimme gimme more
...very cute...
AMANITA MUSCARIA
Amanita muscaria is a psychedelic mushroom that has been used by multiple Siberian, European, and Amerian tribes for religious purposes. Muscimol, Fly Agaric’s main psychoactive compound, produces sedative and deliriant effects.
Huh...That explains the blackouts.
It should be noted that it is also poisonous and can even, in rare cases, prove lethal.
So it might not be the best thing to write something that might encourage people to indiscriminately experiment with it.
@@RUclipsallowedmynametobestolen that agaricus is called the berserker. In some of its range it has color variants of the fruit that make it easily confused with other amanita species that are actually toxic. A spore examination is in order before consuming an amanita of you want to see your next birthday. Amateurs beware.
@@woodydavis8287 Woody, many years ago I read in some magazine an article about a mycologists convention. I'm not sure if mycologist is actually the right word. It wasn't necessarily for scientists but more for wild mushroom enthusiasts.
In any case, there were many mushrooms on display--many of which had been gathered locally earlier in the day or the day before. And on one table there were several specimens of one kind of fungus, which were identified by an official-looking sign. The sign gave the common and scientific names of the specimen, and other pertinent information about the fungus. Then, in bold, clear letters it warned: "These mushrooms are poisonous. Do not taste!"
But handwritten just below that was scribbled the message, "But if you do taste it, please leave comments on flavor and texture."
@@RUclipsallowedmynametobestolen the initial effects of ingesting the A. muscaria are quite unpleasant, including vomiting, tremors, compulsive sleeping. Once these pass, a number of other effects take over that are "interesting"to some people. It's not just a glass of wine. For a good read on it check out"The Fungal Pharmacy" by Robert Rogers.
Also, mushrooms can be smelled and tasted without getting poisoned, but do not chew them up to release juice and don't swallow any that aren't known to be harmless by an expert. Amanita family has members that are edible while some are obnoxious and some are among the deadliest on the planet. In the last 15 years there has been research to determine if muscaria can be deadly. I recall one published paper indicating the LD50 was unachievable by ingesting whole mushrooms. The amanita family is out of my lane as the ones living here are destroying angels plus some other scary ones. Best regards
LOVE
Noooo....it finished all too soon. 😢😢 I so wanted to see inside