Chapter One: Camping and filming on crown land

Director Rob Rowatt on set
The Honeymoon was filmed camping in the woods of southern Ontario with no access to electricity or running water.

 

Campfire production meeting
David Squires, Jenny Armour, Anita Kane and Max Ingrao plan the next day’s shoot around the campfire.

 

Laura Keightley on set – Parry Sound, Ontario

 

Barry Lavender on set – Parry Sound, Ontario
Barry, our co-producer, is an old hippy and former Greenpeace activist. An expert hand rendered letterform artist, he designed all of the on screen graphics, packaging, tattoos and signage . He also brought some pretty cool vehicles to the film including a motorcycle and the Airstream trailer that he lived in back in the sixties. We rewrote the script and added new scenes to incorporate these new props.

 

Max Ingrao with bedhead – Parry Sound, Ontario

 

Chapter Two: Boats and batteries

Laura Keightley
Laura shivers in the early morning air as we load the the boats with supplies and prepare to cross the lake to our campsite on crown land. We kept a motorboat and canoe chained to a tree at the public boat launch. Camera batteries were charged overnight by draining juice from the boat batteries.

 

Newlyweds canoeing
Laura Keightley and Max Ingrao canoeing on Crane Lake, Parry Sound, Ontario.

 

Max chilling
Max Ingrao flashes a peace sign on set – Crane Lake, Parry Sound, Ontario.

 

Laura Keightley gets into character – Parry Sound, Ontario

 

Chapter Three: Bancroft and the tar paper shack

On set – Bancroft, Ontario
After one of our Toronto casting sessions, a young actor named Elroy Jelinek casually mentioned that his parents owned some property up north with an old dilapidated shack on it. When he sent us the photos we freaked and immediately organized a location scouting trip. The old tar paper shack was filled with junk which we cleared out and moved into a nearby storage trailer. There were three separate rooms and we rewrote the script to incorporate these amazing new sets. Just up the hill here were two large trailers for us to sleep in. A smaller trailer was outfitted with some supplies from a science store and became Pa’s meth trailer. Also on the property was a swamp and a hunting stand which were both written into the script.

 

Rob Rowatt and Jenny Armour on set
Director Rob Rowatt with his wife and Executive Producer Jenny Armour plan the next day’s shoot – on set at the Jelinek family property, Bancroft, Ontario.

 

Trailers – Bancroft, Ontario set
The cast and crew slept in these trailers on the Jelinek family property, Bancroft, Ontario.

 

Barry Lavender and Curtis Jelinek on set – Bancroft, Ontario
Barry fixes a canoe seat while Curtis examines his poking stick. Barry slept in his own personal tipi.

 

Max Ingrao playing guitar on set – Bancroft, Ontario
Max plays guitar in the band Redline. In the scene where the young newlyweds are driving up north he improvises the song on acoustic guitar live on camera.

 

Pulling gear to set by trolley
Some of the terrain was pretty harsh and we had to pull our gear through the woods to the set on a trolley.

 

Filming a scene at the tar paper shack - Bancroft, Ontario

 

Chapter Four: Muscle cars, motorcycles and guns

David Squires, Jim Melanson and ‘Jenny’
Clay and the Biker resting on ‘Jenny’, Director Rob Rowatt’s custom ’68 Buick Skylark.

 

Clay exits the ’68 Buick Skylark

 

Packing a rifle on Pa’s bike
Rob Rowatt, Barry Lavender and Elroy Jelinek setting up to shoot the motorcycle chase scene.

 

Clay’s gun rack

 

Pa peeling out

 

Chapter Five: Makeup

Makeup Artist Anita Kane touching up the Ranger’s wounds

 

Ferris’ burns

 

Biker’s makeup

 

Laura Keightley checks makeup with Anita Kane on set

 

The Cast

Laura Keightley – Nicole

 

Max Ingrao – Mark

 

Barry Lavender – Pa

 

Matt Trueman – the Ranger

 

Katy Hedalen – the Ranger’s wife

 

Logan Brown – Ferris

 

Anne Shepherd – Sissy

 

Elroy Jelinek – the Grease Monkey/Bear

 

 

Jim Melanson – Biker

 

Film Stills

Pa and Nicole at the lookout tower

 

Nicole’s room

 

Pa and Sissy get cozy

 

Pa and Clay at home

 

Photos by Jenny Armour, Barry Lavender, Rob Rowatt and Elroy Jelinek

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