Chandler Levack on why she sacrificed the better half of her 30s for a Canadian microbudget dramedy
It is October, 2018 and I’m 31 years old. I don’t know whether I’ll ever have kids, but I know that I want to give birth to a movie. ButI’ve spent the past four years trying to get a million-dollar movie off the ground, a rom-com calledI’ve written 39 drafts of the screenplay, found producers and pitched it to a Telefilm executive who told
That’s when I start thinking about Blockbuster Video. Every weekend during my last year of high school, I would spend five hours pushing a DVD cart across a grey carpet. I was the kind of dork who urged customers to rent Krzysztof Kieslowski’s, but every so often, someone would let me talk about why I liked movies, and it would feel as if my heart had grown six sizes.
One day, Goeldner tells me that I like the idea of being a filmmaker more than making a film. She’s right – while life on the futon is gross and safe, it is not my destiny. I decide to embrace the idea that I will shoot my first feature in the middle of a pandemic: March and April 2021, which will become Ontario’s third wave.timeline to hit, things move quickly. We find our lead actor, Isaiah Lehtinen, our incredible Lawrence.
Finally, our first day of production arrives. I haven’t been in the same room with anyone other than my dad in eight months, and now I am directing a crew of 25 people.wipe out 15 per cent of an already strapped micro-budget, forcing my producers to defer their fees and me to put my life savings into the film. A lead actor gets recast halfway through production after a freak accident.
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