Calendar Leaves - Production

Production

Calendar Leaves was shot in Coquitlam, in the usual speedy Martin Dudzik manner in five days. Port Moody Secondary School was used for the interior shots. For the day of interior shooting, short story author Michael Serebriakov was invited on set.

For the opening scene, the crew spent the morning painstakingly recreating a bus stop. Because of Dudzik's love for close shots, no part of the replica bus stop made it into the final cut.

Tyler Kranz was initially slated to be the boom operator, but the actor cast to play Steven fell sick just before production. Many consider Kranz's performance the best of the movie.

During one day of production, the set was visited by a dreary notorious Vancouver rain. Although soaking the crew, it provided for some of the more memorable scenes of the movie.

According to Dudzik, Kranz turned out to be a sub-par narrator, so he took over personally. To get the "narratory" voice, he ate copious amounts of ice cream before recording his lines.

As a joke, newbies were told the movie would star Ed Harris, because of Peter Nicholas Smith's uncanny resemblance to the actor.