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First fiction from Antarctica
Thursday 18th October 2012 | Shavy
A fictional feature film, South of Sanity has been shot in Antarctica for the first time.
Here comes something terrifying for the Halloween 2012, South of Sanity!
This is the first fiction film made in the land of snow, Antarctica. South of Sanity is a thriller based horror movie which shows 14 staff at an Antarctic station and they are stalked by a killer. This movie is filmed by Kirk Watson, a Scottish climbing instructor and documentary-maker while the script is written by Matt Edwards, a doctor who lives near London.
Watson has made this movie while working for the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and with help from other British staff, which included marine biologists, geologists and mechanics. They are the cast and crew of the film.
Aviemore-based Mr Watson has six years' experience working in Antarctica. In winter, when the continent is locked in darkness and freezing conditions, staff learn skills such as woodwork and black and white photography to help while away their free time. Mr Watson decided to hone his film-making by shooting a low budget fictional feature.
He said: "We filmed a couple of day scenes on a weekend and the rest was shot in the dark just to make the film darker. So our actors suffered a bit in the cold as we had people sitting outside for ages, or playing dead people lying in the snow. It became a bit tricky with the 'dead people' as they shivered, so they were carefully edited to get rid of the movement."
This movie is shot entirely in Antarctica. The movie is rated 18 by The British Board of Film Classification. The film will be premiered in Aviemore on 31 October.
Watch out its Trailer before you go to the loo!
By Shavy Malhotra
