While the valley has seen some big Hollywood productions this year, there is room for independent projects as well.
Earlier this year Let Him Go, starring Diane Lane and Kevin Costner shot in Drumheller, and then a CBC production called Fortunate Son took Drumheller downtown back to the 1960s. This week the community is getting ready to see the new Ghostbusters utilize the valley.
While it is great to see large productions, other small projects are using the backdrop of the valley for filming. Earlier this month, Brody Trollope of Universal Crew Productions was in the valley filming a project called Ability to Do, a dark comedy that also explores superheroes and supervillains.
“It is a web series I came up with a while back and we started filming recently,” said Trollope. “Each episode is going to be different from the last, kind of like Black Mirror. Each will have its own story and eventually, they will connect in their own way.”
He was at the Historic Graham Ranch near East Coulee filming as well as at Café Ole.
He is now planning to take the work, when complete, to film festivals and also publish online on Youtube.
This is a new project they are working on the first episode and hope to put out a trailer in the near future.
Trollope has done a few short projects before, but this is his first series.
“I am not part of the industry as a professional, I don’t get paid to do this, I am hoping it will change in the future,” he said. “I have always had a passion for it.
“I love telling stories and showing it in a visual form.”
