We made the film for next to nothing, just like today’s indie authors produce a book. The film was titled Nature’s Way but before its release was changed to Don’t Change My World. I was chosen to write, direct, and edit for the simple reason that I had more experience than anyone else involved, plus I was still riding on my fame from The Now Explosion. All you had to do was get the cast and crew to a really spectacular location and tell a reasonably entertaining story about a hero single-handedly fighting man’s abuse of nature. The attraction to this genre for the filmmaker was that Mother Nature provided all the sets and most of the players (wildlife) for free. The timing was right because several G-rated low-budget ‘outdoor-adventure’ films had done very well, chief among them was Grizzly Adams. I was part of a small production company that decided to make a low-budget feature film for theatrical distribution. That’s me in the plaid shirt.Ī little less than 40 years ago I jumped through these same kinds of hoops but in a different medium: film. The joys of shooting in the great outdoors.
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