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Filmmaker Shawn Linden has been chomping at the bit to get back in the director’s chair after an almost four year hiatus.
After spending many years learning the ropes on local film productions as a set dresser, Linden made a big splash on the filmmaking scene in 2007. His self-financed film Nobody garnered great reviews, awards and played in festivals around the world.
His latest project, Rose By Name, which he will direct from his own script, is being produced by Suki Films and has just begun preproduction in Quebec. It will shoot in both Quebec and Manitoba this summer.
Quid pro quo: I’ve been on sets before. Be it the small, independent short films where the director’s mother is the caterer, to the larger feature films where assistants have assistants.
And because of the long hours and close working conditions, a film set can feel like a surrogate family.
Earlier this week I got to visit the Less Than Kind set where they are busy filming episodes for the third season. Less Than Kind follows the quirky, unpredictable trials and tribulations of a dysfunctional Jewish family trying to get by in Winnipeg’s fading North End, and recently the show won three Gemini Awards.
Paul Bronfman, CEO and Chairman of William F. White and long-time proponent of the service industry, was in Winnipeg for a special reception last week to celebrate with the Manitoba screen-based media industry his recent induction into the Canadian Film & Television Hall of Fame.