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麻豆传媒映画filmmakers Clif Prowse and Derek Lee developed their feature film debut Afflicted as a web series where they would play themselves聽on a worldwide year-long backpacking adventure told through a video travel blog and use all their real social media accounts to facilitate聽a "real-people-in-a-real-situation" docu-style drama.聽Afflicted starts off as聽a European version of One聽Week with Joshua Jackson except Derek's life-threatening condition is AVM not cancer and he's not alone on his trip.
The two BFFs聽go skydiving 补苍诲听cross聽off several other items on their聽Bucket聽Lists until one night in Paris when the film聽takes a sharp turn into horror as Derek is attacked after taking the wrong girl home and starts to exhibit bizarre symptoms like an allergy to sunlight and superhuman speed and strength. Could Derek be turning into a vampire? 
Definitely.
Definitely.
Afflicted is the first feature聽from the two 麻豆传媒映画filmmakers who met in high school and have been making films together for the past fifteen years but never anything of this magnitude. How did they pull it off?聽 How did they shoot in all these European locations on a聽relatively small聽$300,000+ budget with 26 out of 31 days on location? It was guerilla filmmaking at its finest, Robert Rodriguez-style,聽 shot mainly with a聽$5000 DSLR camera on trains and in the streets because filming permits proved too expensive in the big cities.聽But the聽pair did聽shell聽out for a permit in the small Italian town where they filmed聽Entry 130 in the video blog -- the聽110 foot crane stunt below.
A Derek stunt double jumps off a 30 to 40 foot ledge in a three-part shot stitched together afterward.聽Pretty impressive.
Afflicted is playing at the International Village and several other theatres in the Lower Mainland.
