St. John's filming begins for Love and Savagery
John N. Smith directs $6.5-million feature
Last Updated: Wednesday, April 23, 2008 | 12:38 PM ET
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Filming begins in St. John's on Wednesday on Love and Savagery, the latest film by award-winning director John N. Smith.
Newfoundland actor Allan Hawco in Love and Savagery on the Burren in County Clare, Ireland.
(Love and Savagery)
Montreal-born Smith, who also helmed TV series The Englishman's Boy and Random Passage, is in charge of the $6.5-million feature centred on an impossible love story.
Set in 1968 in Newfoundland and Ireland, it is the story of a geologist and poet, played by Newfoundland native Allan Hawco, who falls in love with a young Irish woman who plans to devote her life to the church, a role played by Irish actress Sarah Greene.
They meet while he is studying the bleak landscape of the Burren, the rocky limestone area in northwestern Ireland. The traditional community looks askance at their relationship and the young woman is faced with a difficult choice.
The shooting in Newfoundland will continue for the next four weeks.
Filming in Ireland, which took place in the village of Ballyvaughan in County Clare, is already completed.
Director John N. Smith, left, adviser Father Des Ford, centre, and Irish design consultant Padraig ONeill on the set in Ballyvaughan, Ireland.
(Bernard Walsh/Associated Press)
Writer Des Walsh and director of photography Pierre Letarte first worked with Smith on the Gemini and Peabody-award-winning drama series The Boys of St. Vincent, also set in Newfoundland.
Producers in Quebec and Ireland, the Newfoundland and Labrador Film Development Corp. and the Irish Film Board have backed the film, to be distributed in Canada by Mongrel Media.
Telefilm has awarded $3.2 million through its feature film fund.
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