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A formerly athletic retiree has a crippling heart attack in his late sixties. He challenges his fate to compete again in the National Water Ski Championships. A unique sports film that combines Davis' interest in the meaning of life and his passion for the sport of water skiing. This short film might be the first fiction film to focus on water skiing. The film was shot in Calgary at the Predator Bay water ski site. William B. Davis directed with assistance from Jonathan Joffe of Calgary. Tom Braidwood was the 1st AD and Sine Quo Non. The film recently played at the Whistler and Vancouver Film Festivals.
Stand-In
Canadian writer, David Helwig, has written a complex novella about a retired university professor who returns to his university as a substiture for his more famous colleague, recently deceased. His meandering lecture weaves a tale of mystery, disappointment, and jealousy. We are adapting this work for the stage. It will be a tour de force for the performer. We are also considering its film potential.
49th and Main
We are looking for either a new home or new ways to develop this material. The characters and story lines have lives of their own. The project could continue to be developed as a daytime serial or it could be developed into a weekly show, a tv movie, or even a feature film.
Hallowed Halls - A concept for a television series
What happens when
this mysteriously burns
down...
...and is replaced by this ...
In the wonderful but, oh so mistaken, belief that peace and harmony will reign on the blank slate of a new school? A dramatic and funny tv series about a group of department heads in a new school and their now dead idealistic former principal.
Created by Barbara Ellison with input from William Davis and Bill Gray.
