Many of the actors -- but neither Hindle or Collins -- performed nude love scenes.
While Galatis and Smith dreamed up the plot, Levy was out rustling up a budget from Telefilm Canada, the Canadian Television Fund and the other usual funding suspects.
There was rain so severe it flooded a beaver dam, which blocked the only access road for the actors coming up from Toronto to join the shoot.
His schedule typically started at 5:30 a.
Unfortunately, an awful lot did.
The only way to make it work financially, he realized, was to have an all-Canadian cast.