When he was in grade six, Fred Kroetsch and a couple friends decided to make a movie for a school project. It was an adaptation of a Doctor Who episode.
“I don’t remember which one,” he says. “All I remember was I was dressed up as a Cyberman. Basically, since that point, every school project ever since we did as a movie.”
He kept in touch with his school buddies over the years, recording countless hours of tape. With that experience under his belt, Fred went to Concordia University in Montreal for film school. Another of his friends, Dean Davey, headed west to the Vancouver Film School. After graduation, they both came back to Edmonton. Fred got a job producing shows for Shaw and started scheming.
“I wanted to work with my group of friends and keep developing things. The mentality at the time was that gear is so expensive, and everyone’s fighting for it.”
