"On his third day shooting Heated Rivalry, Jackson Parrell found himself lighting a Russian funeral in the dining room of an Italian restaurant in Hamilton, Ontario. The room was dim. A dozen mourners sat shoulder to shoulder, their faces caught in the low glow of table lamps. "I was like, fuck," Parrell says. " This is one of the best scenes I've ever had the opportunity to light.""
"Months earlier, at a dinner party in Toronto, Jacob Tierney, a friend of a friend, mentioned a project he was developing for Crave: a drama about rival hockey captains who fall in love, adapted from Rachel Reid's Game Changers novels. It would be explicit. It would move between Montreal, Moscow, and Vegas. There would be penthouses and arenas, banquets and hotel suites. "It's probably the lowest-budget thing I've ever shot," says Parrell, whose credits include North of North and Anne With an E."
Jackson Parrell lit a Russian funeral scene in an Italian restaurant in Hamilton, describing it as one of the best scenes he had the opportunity to light. He signed on as cinematographer for a hockey romance adapted from Rachel Reid's Game Changers, worrying the series would "look Canadian," meaning visibly underfunded. The project promised explicit scenes and locations spanning Montreal, Moscow, and Vegas, with penthouses, arenas, banquets, and hotel suites. Parrell called it probably the lowest-budget thing he'd ever shot, and the schedule was punishing: just over a month to shoot at 10–11 pages a day, with hockey stunts often consuming half a day for a single line of action.
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