Cor Values will be showing at Cut Knife Elk's Theatre October 6. (supplied photo/Dean Busch)

By Keaton Brown

Bringing it home

Canadian movie producer bringing film home to Cut Knife

Sep 24, 2019 | 2:05 PM

A Canadian movie producer is bringing one of his movies back to his hometown of Cut Knife for a showing next month.

The Cut Knife Elks Theatre will be showing the award-winning drama/thriller Cor Values on October 6 at 7 p.m.

One of the executive producers for the film, Dean Busch, was born and raised just a few miles south of Cut Knife.

“Our family farm was just a few miles south of Cut Knife. Pretty good life growing up, did all the things farm kids did growing up in the 70s. You are shooting gophers, playing in hay stacks, learning to drive the tractor when you are nine years old” he said.

Dean’s parents, Junior and Frances Busch, were both devoted members of the Cut Knife’s Elks and Royal Purple respectively.

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That is why when the partners in the film decided to use it for some charitable purposes they landed on the Cut Knife’s Elks.

They decided to show the film in Dean’s hometown in the theatre where he started his singing and acting career at age 13.

“My dad was a long time member of the Cut Knife’s Elks club and he was the exalted ruler a couple of times, so to bring this back to Cut Knife to support the theatre and the Elks [is great]. It is a place where I developed my love of film to begin with so I thought what an excellent opportunity to give back to my home town” he said.

Dean gained notoriety at the Saskatchewan Talent Quests in the late 1970s and later moved into acting. After moving to New Zealand he had some small roles in The Tommy Knockers, a Stephen King film, and a New Zealand TV show called Shortland Street. He had the opportunity to work with some well known names in the film world and even met Mickey Rooney on the film set of The Black Stallion.

The film, which is based on actual events, is about Cormac Dandridge who returns from the big city to his small town home to settle his father’s estate. He finds old and new love as well as a town ripe with corruption and murder. He soon learns there is more than meets the eye when he and his two loves go head to head with a legion of evil doers no one believes even exist.

The film has been a relative success. It is streaming online in eight countries and has been nominated and won a few awards including the Alberta Media Production Industry Association (AMPIA) award.

The movie will have a special Sunday evening showing and all of the proceeds from the $5 admission will be going directly to the Cut Knife’s Elks.

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Keaton.brown@jpbg.ca

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