iFilmGroup Actor Jacob Gagen as Raymond Collishaw
GAGEN’S acting career soars to new HEIGHTS
iFilmGroup is proud to announce that our youth actor Jacob Gagen has been cast as ‘Raymond Collishaw’ in the movie- ‘The Ace and the Scout’ by Electric Motion Pictures, directed by Aaron Huggett.
They filmed these scenes at the Great War Flying Museum located at the Brampton Airport. The museum builds and maintains flying replicas of WW1 aircraft.
The film itself is set over 3 days in late August 1918. A band of Canadian soldiers are cut off from supply and must fight to survive the Orix Trench on the Western Front of the Great War.
The Ace and the Scout Poster
The 15-day filming of ‘The Ace and the Scout’ will be shot in Lambton County with a recreated battlefield scene – trenches and all. At least one day will be spent filming in Hamilton with plans to use vintage warplanes.
The film itself centres around Billy Bishop and includes the story of Francis Pegahmagabow. Billy Bishop story will be told alongside that of First World War sniper Francis Pegahmagabow.
Although Bishop became famous, some historians regard Pegahmagabow, an Ojibwe soldier from Parry Sound, as the greatest sniper of the war.
iFilmGroup Actor Jacob Gagen (on left). Cast of ‘The Ace and the Scout’.
Bishop in the cockpit of his Nieuport 17, c. August 1917.
William Avery Bishop, was a Canadian flying ace of the First World War. He was officially credited with 72 victories, making him the top Canadian and British Empire ace of the war. He was an Air Marshal and a Victoria Cross recipient.
During this period, Bishop became the highest scoring flying ace in the Royal Flying Corp.
Francis Pegahmagabow
-Francis Pegahmagabow was the First Nations soldier most highly decorated for bravery in Canadian military history and the most effective sniper of World War I. Three times awarded the Military Medal and seriously wounded, he was an expert marksman and scout, credited with killing 378 Germans and capturing 300 more.
Electric Motion Pictures, also made ‘Red Ryan’, ‘The Black Donnellys’ and ‘Black Gold’. ■
iFilmGroup Actor- Jacob Gagen in “The Ace and the Scout”.
We are happy to see GAGEN REACHING FOR THE SKY!
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