LIghts, camera — action. It was a busy Sunday on the Base at - TopicsExpress

LIghts, camera — action. It was a busy Sunday on the Base at the RCA Museum and an adjacent field acting as a battle scene from First World War France. Filmmaker Graham Street was busy calling action and cut while his soldiers were put through their paces for the third instalment in the documentary series. RCA Museum director Marc George was also on scene to add his expertise as he retold the story of the brothers from Boissevain who fought and died on the muddy battlefields. He was able to give the soldiers acting the parts an idea of what happened on the battlefields as they acted out what Street envisioned trying to tell the story, which George will narrate. Film­ing for this project took place initially in the spring and sum­mer of 2012 and fea­tured many loca­tions through­out the West­man area includ­ing the Town of Bois­se­vain, Camp Hughes Provin­cial Her­itage Site and the RCA Museum in Shilo. The film­mak­ers also trav­eled to France, fol­low­ing the foot­steps of the West­man sol­diers who fought for their coun­try in the iconic Bat­tle of Vimy Ridge. This doc­u­men­tary was pro­duced in asso­ci­a­tion with MTS TV ‘Sto­ries From Home’ and the first of three films was debuted in the fall of 2012 part of The Bran­don Film Festival’s 2012 fundrais­ing efforts, and was shown at the Evans Theatre on the campus of Brandon University. The second of the documentaries was shown in the fall of 2013, also at the Evans Theatre. These broadcast-length doc­u­men­taries, fea­tur­e the sto­ries of three men from West­ern Man­i­toba who fought for Canada dur­ing the First World War. This community-expression doc­u­men­tary is pro­duced by Street Media Inc. and is writ­ten and hosted by George.