Short film to be shot near Lloyd

A filmmaker with roots in the Border City has decided to bring his talent home.

Chris Lorenz, who grew up just south of Lloyd, recently wrote a script and was granted funding to produce a short film titled ‘Drier Down Here’.

“I got funding from the Canada Council for the Arts to make a short film in the Lloydminster area. It’s going to be a short horror/coming-of-age film about a young boy who is trying to wrestle his desire for a new dirt bike with the presence of a demonic creature living in his family’s farmyard,” said Lorenz.

“I grew up on a farm south of Lloyd, so a lot of it is going to be shot around my parent’s property and the surrounding area, and a lot of the backdrops and setting will be kind of inspired by me growing

Plandowski added, “The 2024 Games will be a true community celebration. We are so fortunate to have such an engaged community and the support of local businesses who are eager to invest in our province’s future.”

Athletes can qualify for the Games through a tryout process, taking place in spring 2024 and managed by each sport’s Provincial Sport Organization (PSO).

Coaches and managers can take part in an application process managed by each PSO.

More than 1,000 community volunteers up out here.”

Lorenz explained how when you’re a kid, especially growing up in a farmyard, things can be so scary. He plans to re-capture that feeling of getting home late at night and trying to walk inside your house as quickly as you can.

“It’s kind of interesting because I don’t usually really focus on that sort of thing and I’m really not that big of a horror fan. I guess it’s kind of a thing that’s popular these days— it’s kind of a more arty horror … movies like ‘Hereditary’ and ‘Get Out’ and stuff that have been coming out in the past decade,” said Lorenz.

“It kind of opened my eyes and I was like ‘hey, maybe I could try to do something like that’. So it’s kind of trying to meld a genre like horror with kind of a more personal or independent genre like coming of age.”

CONTINUED ON PAGE 9 will be recruited to help stage the Games and showcase Lloydminster to the entire province.

The volunteer drive is expected to get underway in early 2024.

These will be the first Saskatchewan Summer Games to take place since the 2016 Summer Games in Estevan.

The most recent Saskatchewan Winter Games were held in Regina in February 2023 and marked the 50th anniversary of the provincial games program, which alternates between summer and winter events every two years.