

It airs Friday evening on CBC’s “The Nature of Things.” Supplied PhotoDownie — who won Canadian Screen Awards for his work on a previous “Nature of Things” documentary (“Invasion of the Brain Snatchers”) in 2014 and as director of “Finding the Secret Path,” his project with younger brother Gord Downie of The Tragically Hip — was most surprised to learn that, even though the ship was officially under quarantine, only the passengers were actually isolated from the others onboard.This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. We’ll understand what it was like, the upstairs versus downstairs, passengers versus crew, that kind of level.’” Former Kingstonian Mike Downie is the director of “The COVID Cruise,” a documentary about the novel coronaviurs outbreak aboard the Diamond Princess cruise ship in February. Were sorry but Podbean Player doesnt work properly without.“We’ll go right inside those cabin rooms. Dear brother of Deb and her husband David.“We really just said, ‘Let’s tell the big story about the spread of COVID by, basically, beside Wuhan, the earlier biggest story and we’ll go deep,’” explained the award-winning filmmaker, who said this documentary was more of a “ripped from the headlines” type than he usually makes.A Powerful Conversation with Award-Winning Filmmaker Mike Downie. Cherished papa and best bud of Cole and step papa of Keely, Hannah and Ashely. Loving father of Randy, Kelly and her husband Kraig.

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The interviews were long and comprehensive, he said, because they couldn’t go back and interview them again for practical reasons.“I think it was just different,” he said of following protocols. Downie recruited a few of his son’s roommates to play the PPE crew and used Lake Ontario as a stand-in for the Pacific Ocean.Problem was, Callahan did that on another ship in the Princess cruise line — their initial story pitch suggested studying three ships that had outbreaks — but not the Diamond Princess.“It was fun to film, but it’s got to serve the story or out it goes,” Downie chuckled.For the interviews, film crews in different parts of the world were hired sight unseen, while Downie interviewed the subjects over a laptop from his home office in Toronto. Michael Callahan doing what Downie called a “blue water crossing,” in which someone decked out in full personal protective equipment leapt from one ship to another.
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