Lure of the North
Credit: Courtney Iromoto
By Goh Iromoto
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rior to this project, I’d done another short film called Pull up in Vermillion Bay and a number of commercial campaigns photographing in Northern Ontario. I learned the important art of layering and how much of a difference wind can make in lowering temperatures out on open frozen lakes. These commercial projects were how I initially met Dave and Kielyn Marrone, the couple featured in Lure of the North who live off the grid year-round. I shot the film in two parts. I was admittedly in-
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spired after watching The Revenant back in 2016 and wanted to capture an essence of that film but with real people. So we filmed for three to four days in March of that year using Dave and Kielyn Marrone’s property near Espanola, Ontario, as our base camp. The property is 40 acres with thousands of acres of crown land surrounding it. Some of the shooting we did that first time was on crown land. As I do with many of my personal projects that I both direct and shoot, my wife Courtney supported me, recording sound, prepping my gear, drone and gimbal, and all
