Writer Luc Rinaldi and I hung out with a group of talented teens as they scrambled to make a movie in under 24 hours for TIFF’s Next Wave challenge. Quick Captions: 1) The gang: Simon Popescu, Liam MacAloney, Emma Mills, Kasia Borkowski and Emily Silver converge while other teams do the same at TIFF Bell Lightbox early Saturday morning. 2) Mills whispers to MacAloney during the Next Wave introduction. 3) The team talk ideas on the way to Popescu's house. 4) Mills checks out the makeup job done by MacAloney. 5) A prop gun is raised in the Applewood Shaver House, a historic space chosen to shoot one of the scenes. 6) Borkowski (center) takes a break as cinematographer to fill in as a character in the film. 7) Never a dull moment with the prop gun 8) The gang review a scene after a million takes due to giggling. 9) While editing in the basement, Rinaldi's parents, Mary-Anne and Dave, chat with us upstairs about his previous films and how Dave always stars in, and dies in every one of them. Full story here
