Wheat Soup turns 25!

It was 25 years ago tonight that Brian Stockton and I premiered Regina's first locally produced dramatic feature film "Wheat Soup". With less than a shoe-string budget (around $16k if memory serves, and virtually all of that went to film, lab, mixing and other expenses), this 75 minute, black and white 16mm film took us three years to create. It was a hellish amount of work, hundreds of things went wrong, but it was also one of the most worthwhile projects of my life. While certainly flawed, many parts of the film turned out just as good, or even better, than we imagined. Much of this is to the credit of DOP Spyro Egarhos and his careful eye and amazing lenses. Shaf was also amazing, sticking with us for so many shoot days without complaint (or compensation).

A few weeks after it's premiere, Wheat Soup cleaned up at the SMPIA film awards, garnering best overall film of the year for our province.