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It takes a village to film a town

What sounds like a sociologist's pipedream - remove a town's women for seven days to see how its men will behave - became reality when Vancouver prodco Paperny Films recently descended on an Alberta oil town to shoot The Week the Women Went, a 10-part cbc series airing at the beginning of next year. Finding the right town to film, securing accommodations for the 70-plus crew, and sending off over 100 women were all huge challenges.

October 1, 2007

What sounds like a sociologist's pipedream - remove a town's women for seven days to see how its men will behave - became reality when Vancouver prodco Paperny Films recently descended on an Alberta oil town to shoot The Week the Women Went, a 10-part cbc series airing at the beginning of next year. Finding the right town to film, securing accommodations for the 70-plus crew, and sending off over 100 women were all huge challenges.