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The pair infamously shot the 2022 stoner comedy in Winnipeg in 2021, only to have hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of film equipment stolen from them on the day designated for the first day of shooting. “After what we went through, people might think we did not fall in love with Winnipeg,” says Stone. Level Films Stuart Stone (left) and Adam Rodness set out to get evidence on film that ghosts are real.
But the story of the theft proved to have promotional value for , Stone asserts. “What a story that made!” he says alongside Rodness during a Zoom interview from Toronto. “You have to learn in the independent film world how to make chicken salad out of chicken shit, as they say.
So even with that misfortune, we love Winnipeg, so we took the opportunity to come back and pull the curtain back, in a meta kind of way, and show how to make a movie in Winnipeg.” With Stone directing and Rodness co-writing and both starring, the pair returned to town about a year ago to make another film, this time examining some of Manitoba’s most hau.
