Life on The Edge

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Life on The Edge
Scott Whalen, for the Whig-Standard

When it's too dangerous to put a 12-foot, 1,600-pound snarling grizzly bear named Bart in the same scene with actors like Sir Anthony Hopkins and Alec Baldwin, you call on Belleville's Doug Knutson.
Knutson, a video producer based in the Quinte area and a graduate of the Queen's University film department, worked on the Alberta set of The Edge, a "Jaws-on-land" action adventure feature that opened yesterday across Canada. It was Knutson's job to help line up shots so that big Bart and the high-profile actors were never actually within striking distance of each other, although it looks like they are doing battle on the screen. Read More...