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It's far from quiet on the set as film production roars to life

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After last year's production lull, the Manitoba film industry is back with a vengeance with three theatrical feature movies currently shooting simultaneously in Winnipeg.

The films include a post-apocalyptic thriller set mostly in an apartment building fallout shelter, a serial-killer thriller about a woman afflicted with "face blindness" and a coming-of-age story about a young girl seeking out her birth mother.

The Divide, a claustrophobic suspense film from director Xavier Gens, stars Michael Biehn of James Cameron's The Terminator and Milo Ventimiglia, the star of the TV series Heroes. The two may not be playing the heroes, exactly, inthe film, which commenced shooting Tuesday on location around the Millennium Centre on Main Street.

The film also stars Rosanna Arquette (David Cronenberg's Crash), Courtney B. Vance (Law & Order: Criminal Intent) and Lauren German, an actress whose credits include The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Hostel 2. German's character is at the centre of the film, set in New York, which is virtually destroyed in a mysterious explosion in the first act. Eight survivors take refuge in the fallout shelter of an apartment building, where they are menaced first by mysterious men in HazMat suits and eventually by each other.

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