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Kirstie Alley in a cell at the Calgary Correctional Centre. |
Kirstie Alley, more than 80 crew members and 20 extras turned the Calgary Correctional Centre into a movie set in July.
Alley, an Emmy-award winning actress known for her roles in the TV series Cheers and films such as Look Who’s Talking and Toothless, was part of a crew shooting a Sony Pictures TV movie for CBS.
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Corrections staff help provide extra security on the set: (from left) Ray France, Deshaw Holloman, the camera operator, Steve Nash, Ron Rizolli and Guy Coling. Missing Terry Lotoski. |
A Matter of Family is the true story of an apparently normal suburban family, respected in their community for their work with foster children. But their perfect image is destroyed when it's revealed that the foster children are being used for slave labor.
The film crew started setting up on the day of the shoot at five a.m. Set designers had already been working to repaint and age the cells in the former Administrative Confinement Range/ Disciplinary Segregation Range (ACRDSR) area. The set designers then repainted the cells after the shoot was complete.
Filming also took place in an outside yard, which put some pressure on the security of the facility. Ron Rizolli, Deputy Director Operations, Calgary Remand Centre, who has worked on previous films at the Calgary Correctional Centre, praised the security team for keeping everything in order. “It takes a good crew to pull something like this off.”
The centre was able to isolate the filming and crew from the offender populations so inmates were not affected.
“It’s quite a tale, one you would think was made up,” said
Murray Ord, one of the producers of the film. A Matter of Family is expected
to be broadcast sometime this fall.
Serving Overseas
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We all say Canada is known for its international role in peacekeeping. But
how many of us are prepared to actually be a peacekeeper. 
