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They must have done well. “The phone started ringing with people who had their own shows or productions who said, ‘Hey, we’d like to have you guys in and film or edit or both’…we’ve been doing that ever since,” he says.
Then came March and COVID-19. “Most of our work is not local and the stuff that is local is always exciting because it’s at home, and the current state of affairs aside, 85% of our business would be stateside,” says Pujic. “We certainly appreciate the stuff we get to do around home, especially on the tourism side, because you’re always proud of where you’re from.”
With that in mind, “When the lockdown first happened, every one of our producers was tasked with producing a project based on their passions and whatever was in reach.”
The first of these projects was A Thing of the Past, a beautifully-produced short documentary, a cautionary tale about the disappearance of brook trout in Ontario waters by Vantage Point’s senior producer Yoshi Aoki. In the film, Aoki recounts a visit to a favourite fishing spot: “My grandpa used to bring us here to fish brookies…I can remember the last brookie we ever caught here…that’s a long time ago now, that’s probably 25 years ago now, but it’s pretty crazy to think that we’re the generation that saw them disappear, and I can remember him telling us…he told us that someday they’ll be a thing of the past.”
Another short documentary, The Camp, by Vantage Point’s Brady Rogers was released mid-November. It’s a personal, heartfelt, and exceptionally moving testament to family told through the lens of the Rogers ’family cottage and hunting camp on Ashby Lake, north of Bon Echo. Again, it’s a beautiful film.
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