Hyena Road

[dimsum]

http://www.cineplex.com/News/Article?friendlyUrl=Paul-Gross-goes-down-Hyena-Road-in-exclusive-trailer-for-Canadian-war-drama&cplxlike=true

Saw this on a friends' FB; I didn't know Paul Gross was making a movie about the Canadians in Kandahar.

 

[Old Sweat]

His father was a squadron commander in the Strathconas when I was in Germany in the mid-1960s.

 

[George Wallace]

His father was a squadron commander in the Strathconas when I was in Germany in the mid-1960s.

And then the CO of the RCD in Gagetown after that.  He took over command of the RCD from LCol Gordon Kitchen on 04 August 1969.

 

[CougarKing]

A still from Hyena Road, starring Rossif Sutherland, Paul Gross, and Christine Horne. (picture courtesy of Winnipeg Free Press site)

 

[Scoobie Newbie]

Some of the arty parts were filmed in Shilo

 

[Retired AF Guy]

Here is the IMDB listing for Hyena Road.   It has basic info on the stars, production staff and filming locations (CFB Shilo and Jordan), etc. No info on release dates.

 

[Teager]

Trailer for the movie. Release date is October 9th 2015

http://trailers.apple.com/ca/independent/hyenaroad/

 

[Fishbone Jones]

Trailer for the movie. Release date is October 9th 2015

http://trailers.apple.com/ca/independent/hyenaroad/

That showed me enough. Worth a skip from me.

 

[vonGarvin]

Acorn telling a sniper to not engage?

Nope.

 

[George Wallace]

That showed me enough. Worth a skip from me.

So it is an iTunes download incompatible with what I am running, and not worth trying to see?  OK!

 

[Humphrey Bogart]

Acorn telling a sniper to not engage?

Nope.

Gross needs to ditch the goatee as well.  Sergeant Major is going to have a fit  ;D

 

[dapaterson]

Acorn telling a sniper to not engage?

Nope.

Exactly.  We all know that nothing ever comes out of the ASIC.

 

[vonGarvin]

Exactly.  We all know that nothing ever comes out of the ASIC.

:rofl:

 

[observor 69]

Trailer for Paul Gross film #HyenaRoad with @christinejhorne & @richmondpeck - https://youtu.be/G95rPqBxPmQ  via @YouTube

Hyena Road is proud to announce its partnership with Wounded Warriors Canada
http://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/hyena-road-is-proud-to-announce-its-partnership-with-wounded-warriors-canada-523428561.html

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Thanks

 

[Towards_the_gap]

A still from Hyena Road, starring Rossif Sutherland, Paul Gross, and Christine Horne. (picture courtesy of Winnipeg Free Press site)

Was their technical advisor a Malaysian dishwasher from the Burj Al Khalifa in Dubai (no offensive to any Malaysian dishwashers on army.ca)? No right thinking, grapefield leaping, IED dodging outside-the-wire panjwai cowboy would ever look at them, with every single piece of kit shiny, brand new, and not even slightly dirty and think 'yup, that seems legit'. Everyone knows the SOP on landing in KAF was to go outside the RSOI tents and drag your Blackhawk/5.11/CF issue (shudder) tacvest through the dirt a few times to give it that 'BTDT' look. Never mind half the reason to go on tour in the first place was to unblouse your boots at the first chance like a proper operator.

Although I will give them this. They got one thing historically correct. If I am assuming correctly and the film is set post-Jan 2010, then the one dude with the ruck sack is spot on.

He's carrying the ROE's and the language cards which helpfully told you how to call a Kuchi goatherd to attention and have him 'for inspection, port arms' in Pashto OR Urdu.
Big ole F from me.

 

[dimsum]

Anyone that is in/near Toronto:  Hyena Road will be playing at the TIFF Lightbox Cinema on Tuesday, 15 Sep at 1330.

http://tiff.net/festivals/festival15/galapresentations/hyena-road

 

[dimsum]

So I saw the movie at the gala premiere last night - MGen Milner, LGen (Ret'd) Leslie and LGen (Ret'd) Dallaire were also in attendance, as were a few officers in Mess Kit (and one Cpl in DEU). 

To cut to the chase, it isn't Passchendaele.  There is a very small relationship shown, but it didn't distract from the movie in general.  Obviously folks in the CAF will pick apart technical details but aside from Paul Gross's beard, it seemed like they at least tried to keep it somewhat accurate - they used quite a bit of footage from KAF and Kandahar province shot in 2010-2011 and it showed. 

In short - if I wasn't in the military and saw Hyena Road, I would come out of it with a greater respect of the situations that happened over there.  But I am, and that beard really bothered me.  >

 

[Strike]

So I saw the movie at the gala premiere last night - MGen Milner, LGen (Ret'd) Leslie and LGen (Ret'd) Dallaire were also in attendance, as were a few officers in Mess Kit (and one Cpl in DEU). 

To cut to the chase, it isn't Passchendaele.  There is a very small relationship shown, but it didn't distract from the movie in general.  Obviously folks in the CAF will pick apart technical details but aside from Paul Gross's beard, it seemed like they at least tried to keep it somewhat accurate - they used quite a bit of footage from KAF and Kandahar province shot in 2010-2011 and it showed. 

In short - if I wasn't in the military and saw Hyena Road, I would come out of it with a greater respect of the situations that happened over there.  But I am, and that beard really bothered me.  >

I'm looking forward to seeing it myself.  Had a chance to speak briefly with Mr Gross last summer before he started working on it and there was a very noticeable change in his demeanor when the topic came up.  It's a project he's been very passionate about since he first started researching it.

 

[blackberet17]

From the still...

Does Mr. Gross have his middle finger on the trigger? Index is above and off the trigger, but it looks like he's stuck his middle finger in there...

And yes, I realize how that sounds, my brain is tired and the vocab escapes me.

 

[Strike]

From the still...

Does Mr. Gross have his middle finger on the trigger? Index is above and off the trigger, but it looks like he's stuck his middle finger in there...

And yes, I realize how that sounds, my brain is tired and the vocab escapes me.

Okay, if you're going to pick on a still (of a moving picture in which he may have been prepositioning) might I suggest to you that you DON'T go and watch the film?