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Poetic, mysterious and visually elegant, Christopher Holmes' debut feature forges an impressionistic coming-of-age narrative as prismatic as the ever-changing strand of shoreline the story inhabits. With refreshing sincerity and an unassuming sense of humor, Lost Colony considers the lives of conflicted teen Loren, his hyper-protective mother Patricia, and others like them along the Outer Banks of North Carolina's coast- site of the first attempted English settlement in the New World. As Loren begins to sense the widening distance between himself and his expecting girlfriend Ramona, a near tragic accident threatens to capsize their world and forces a reckoning with the delicate mythology he has crafted to make sense of it. A searchlight cast upon the earliest traces of America and the mystery of settlers vanished, Lost Colony scans a once virgin watershed for signs of life.

A glimpse into the life of a terrible but successful artist, through the eyes of his girlfriend/muse; his arch-nemesis; a terrifying critic; his loyal assistant who actually does all the work; a professor who spouts endless postmodern jargon; and a young woman who only speaks in '80's pop lyrics--in Korean.

One man's determination to track down a rare woodpecker wreaking havoc on his house puts him on the warpath. What he discovers in pursuit is an ecology of sight and sound that defies every natural property he's ever trusted in--and an environment far more surreal than he'd bargained for.