-40 Degrees Celsius

-40 Degrees Celsius

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Paul Davis
Canada, short, 2007
14 mins. (Beta)
Themes:

It is -40 degrees and pitch dark in a small subarctic town. The phone rings. You bike to work up hill 9 km in temperatures where steel cracks.

Toronto Premiere

-40 Degrees Celsius

-40-degrees.jpg
Paul Davis
Canada, short, 2007
14 mins. (Beta)
Themes:

It is -40 degrees and pitch dark in a small subarctic town. The phone rings. You bike to work up hill 9 km in temperatures where steel cracks.

Paul Davis is a consummate story teller who just recently arrived on the French Canadian TV market with films on Radio Canada’s Ça Vaut le Detour and the Tromso International film Festival. A bilingual cinéaste, writer, actor he does his own stunts -40C is his first film.

-40C was shot in -41C temperatures with a 2 person crew, one of whom was also the narrator, director and stunt guy. The production used only one SUV as a crew transfer vehicle. The interior shots were all done in hydro-heated houses which are naturally carbon neutral. The film was edited in a hydro-heated environment and the crew relied on bikes and foot to get to and from set. Electricity from the production was 100% hydro.