For seven years, J Stevens played on an Australian rules football team in Calgary.
The filmmaker, who uses the pronoun they, was often struck by how seriously their teammates took the games. It was, after all, fairly low stakes. The team would play and then go out drinking.
So when Stevens arrived in Toronto eager to create their own opportunities, it wasn’t long before Slo Pitch was born. The web series was co-created by Karen Knox and Gwenlyn Cumyn, who also play Boris and Ann, respectively, and began streaming on OutTV in 2020. The first season is made up of episodes that ring in at less than 10 minutes and introduced us to the Brovaries, a queer slo-pitch beer-league team that takes itself very, very seriously.
The episodes are a touch longer in Season 2 and there are some new characters, including a new rival team of “sexy Irish cowboys” who work at a local roadhouse and call themselves The Jugglies. “There’s a beauty to the mockumentary format in that it’s less polished, inherently,” Stevens says. “So there is really a lot of space. Most of your day isn’t spent setting up lights. Whereas a lot of shows, when it is a very specific look, so much of the day goes to setup. The actors go offset and are separate and get brought in after they have sat in the trailers for 45 minutes or an hour. Whereas with Slo Pitch, for Season 1 we shot in seven days and Season 2 we shot in 11 days.
Born and raised in Calgary, Stevens was an athlete before they were a filmmaker. They competed in high-level tennis and golf while growing up.But they first caught the filmmaking bug in Grade 10 at Strathcona-Tweedsmuir School near Okotoks. They took a film studies course and was given a small camera and assigned a “one-minute, one-shot film about a blue dodge ball.”
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