Renner also appreciates that Bielinski’s films, while not overtly didactic, have a moral component, describing “A Heart Like Water” as “a touching story of a man and a woman who, if they didn’t have this faith, there’s no way they would have survived what they survived.” ‘A rightly-ordered universe’ “There’s also definitely a work ethic that exists within the production company, too, where you do what needs to get done to get the production off the road to get it going,” she says. Though Renner has worked in theater for 25 years in a variety of roles, she says, her latest as a costumer came from a need she discovered in the Bismarck area, and her skills as a seamstress, along with being able to look at the big picture.Ī Catholic, Renner says she appreciates Bielinski’s strong work ethic, respectful communication and faith sensitivities, such as ensuring the crew can take time to worship when filming on weekends. “I was born in Dickinson,” she says, later leaving the area for quite a few years before eventually circling back after “falling in love with a North Dakota guy,” her husband. But during a recent filming in Medora, she says, she drove one of the out-of-area visitors to the filming site, impressing him with a buffalo sighting. “There’s just something about watching something that is entertainment and art… and then also, to have that in a beautiful frame.” A costumer’s perspectiveīecause most of her work as a costumer comes in pre-production research and planning, Michele Renner isn’t always on set. “In many ways, I expect it will feel like watching a painting in action.”Ĭornwell especially looks forward to seeing the audience’s reactions, and viewing the film in an iconic space, she says. 5,” Cornwell says, noting that, based on Griak’s artistic abilities, she’s certain it will be beautiful. “I’ll be seeing this along with the audience for the first time on Dec. “This was one of the most scheduled, well-planned-out shoots I’ve been on. The lead in “A Heart Like Water,” she says it took about 10 days to film.
Tiffany Cornwell films a scene in "A Heart Like Water." Photo courtesy of Canticle Productions / Special to The ForumĬornwell’s acting career began at 3 months, she says, when she played the baby Jesus in a Christmas production, and though she started out in theater, she’s developed a real love for film. “North Dakota has so many amazing stories,” Bielinski adds, “and they’re so much better than anything I could come up with in my imagination,” explaining his passion for adapting them to film. “That was kind of the driving force of this film.” “I think we can certainly learn from the perseverance and courage and the sacrifices of those who came before us,” he says. “It’s also very reflective on what it means to have children on the frontier, what it means to be a parent, and what it means to endure suffering in the light of faith.”
“It’s very much a meditation, and I hope it’s very gripping,” he says. “It really examines what the struggles were on the frontier, for faith, hope and survival, and how it was all linked,” Bielinski says, told through the story of a nameless frontier couple trying to keep their family together, and their hopes alive, in 1887. Lift up your hands to him for the lives of your children, who faint from hunger at every street corner.” The film’s name, he notes, comes from Lamentations 2:19: “Arise, cry out in the night, as the watches of the night begin pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord. “And not in a way that punches you in the face with a message.”
“It’s been important to me to discover a voice in the work that not only honors North Dakota history, but honors God,” he says. A father who’d grown “tired of schlepping kids up and down subways,” along with the “endless moral battle of work versus values,” Bielinski says that when the University of Mary asked him to direct its theater department, the timing was right, and he quickly became drawn to telling stories that honor the history and culture of North Dakota.
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5 will include a red-carpet walk with photo opportunities, along with sales of autographed copies of the screenplay and film memorabilia.Īttendees will also get a peek at “Sanctified,” the company’s next film, set to release this spring.īielinski founded Canticle Productions, a film and theater production company, in 2018, a couple years after he and his family moved to North Dakota from New York City, where he’d been working as a professional actor. , will be a “fun, immersive, interactive experience,” and “a glimpse into what it is like to make a true North Dakota film from the ground up,” says Daniel Bielinski, writer and producer.Īlong with filmmakers from the Bismarck-based Canticle Productions being present to interact with the audience, he adds, the Fargo Theatre premiere on Dec. “A Heart Like Water,” an historical fiction film
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