Nature’s assassin emerges from an ancient forest to confront Man and his relentless expansion in one final battle. This is the second part in a tetralogy about our relationship with nature and the return of the goddess…

SHOT On Red One
Zeiss High Speed Primes

Director of Photography
Guy Godfree

ADDENDUM (the opening shot)
this is in response to all of you who want to know more about what is behind the first shot…

The movement was created with an EZ FX Jib Arm with a remote head (Camera Turret PT24) on a simple doorway dolly with 12 feet of tracks. The camera was upside down so that we could get as low as possible to the water and our crane grip, dolly grip, remote head operator(DP), and focus puller(1stAC) rehearsed the shot for a few hours before our performer, Jessica Keeling, got in that freezing water and held still for that long approach. We almost didn’t get the shot, but that night, when we all saw the first three shots of the day and of the movie – the whole crew was sharing a house on the Niagara escarpment – we knew that we were doing something special and everything changed… the whole group came together for a 7 day shoot that pushed our creative boundaries into what was for us unknown territory. There’s a lot more about the making of here…