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IN PROGRES...
South Pacific, 1942
p.c. Surfacing Film Productions Ltd. (1979) p. Michael Donovan p. asst. Michael Perry p. sec. Jayne Mackenzie d./sc. Paul Donovan a.d. Marc Copeland d.o.p. Juan Valladares cam. op. Les Krizsan ed. Hussein Mohamad, Stefan Ronavich (asst.) key grip Doug Meggison cont. Nancy Muise unit man. Lisa MacRae sd. Pierre Dostie mus. Marcel Doucet boom Chuck Lapp gaf. Michael Ruggles p. design. John Walsh cost. design Robin Benjamin make-up Kathy O’Connell, Jim Michieli, Carolyn van Gurp carpenters Tom Cove, Fritz Boonzaier cook Angela Chartie stills Bill Niven Lp. Alan MacGillivray, Richard Rebiere, Andrea Zaduban, Lynette Louise, Terry Depres, Jeff Pustil, Gary Vermeir, Dug Rotsteen, Lorne Ryan, Bill Papps, Maher Boutros.
So there are two wild and crazy oil rig divers on top of the submarine — one standing on the other’s shoulders trying to hook a pulley into the roof of the old brewery warehouse. Muffled shots are heard from another corner, where one of the crew is trying to bring down a Halifax wharf rat with a 38-style pellet gun. The twenty-hour day wears on as last-minute set wrinkles are worked out forthe HMCS STRIDENT, a fictitious World War 11 Canadian submarine, whose exploits are the subject of the film South Pacific, 1942.
The feature is being produced by Surfacing Film Productions of Halifax and was shot in that city this past winter on a six-week schedule and a $500,000 buaget. Frustrated by their encounters with the CFDC, the two partners — Paul Donovan and brother Michael — waded into the sea of private investment and raised the money entirely in Nova Scotia. Both are from Halifax originally, and shooting a 35mm feature about a submarine in the South Pacific, right in the middle of a Halifax winter, didn’t seem as implausible to them as it might have to others ; so they went ahead with it.
The film was written and directed by Paul Donovan. It is a black wartime comedy about a Canadian-crewed sub that picks up the survivors of a mercy liner, which they unknowingly sunk earlier. Under the impression that the Japa
photo: Bill Niven
It’s the ‘wet look’ for Montreal actor Richard Rebiére, and shipmate Lorne Ryan of Toronto, in this action-packed scene from South Pacific 1942. Camera operator les Krizsan moves in to get a piece of the action.
nese had sunk the liner, the sub, under the command of a glory-hungry captain, sets out to sink the largest Japanese aircraft carrier in the South Pacific.
Casting for the film was done in Halifax and Toronto, with the final cast made up” of roughly fifty percent Nova Scotians, and fifty percent other Canadians. The
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