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Filmmaker comes home to shoot thriller 

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He's only 26, but Brandon Nutt is doing something most of us only have fantasies about.
The Sudbury born film producer and director, who now lives in Los Angeles, is back in the city for the month of November working on Phase One, a thriller set in an American college town.

"There will be a lot of blood," says Nutt about this movie about drug testing that goes horribly wrong.

Filming is taking place at the Willet Green Miller Centre and Cambrian Arena. The provincial government is investing $1 million toward the production. Nutt's film company is called Nutthouse Moving Pictures Company Ltd. The government funding is from the Northern Ontario Heritage Fund Corporation (NOHFC). The City of Greater Sudbury, as well as Music and Film in Motion has also been supportive of the project.

Nutt left the city in 2004 to pursue media studies at Humber College in Toronto, and then moved to Los Angeles to attend the Los Angeles Film School.

Nutt's last film, Finding Bliss, played at Cinéfest in September.

Nutt is not the only Sudbury-born filmmaker who is taking advantage of the incentives to film in his hometown. The Winter issue of Sudbury Living, currently on newsstands, profiles David Joseph Anselmo. To garner support for his project Northern Boy that is scheduled to shoot in the Sudbury area in the spring of 2010, he organized a gala fundraising in September at Science North.