The crew of the Sundance short film 'Sunlight' introduces themselves, revealing a hierarchy of low-level production roles including a career PA and a 'second second' assistant director.
"My name is Frederick Jensen and I've been an assistant director for at least this production."
"I am Carrie Johnson and I am a career PA. I love to do it, there is nothing better."
"My name is Don and I was the script sup. I, you know, took care of the script stuff."
Don recounts a traumatic day on set when his Frappuccino was missing, leading to a reveal that the crew was forced to work naked in Antarctica to build 'family' while the actors got parkas.
"It was the second day of shooting and I didn't have my frap. And I just lost it for a second there."
"We all had to get into our unmentionables and it was freezing and we were completely miserable."
"They would give the actors the parkas after they would shoot. We had to stay clothesless."
The crew pays respects to their late director who fell into the ice on day four. Carrie reveals she had to pull his dead body out of the water because of her decades of experience as a 70-year-old PA.
"RIP a legend, man. Day four fell into the Arctic."
"I pulled Duddy's body out of that ice. Do you think some 18-year-old who just got the job because of nepotism could do that?"
"I could pull a dead body out of the ice because I've seen stuff."
Don reveals that the most important part of being a script supervisor is keeping the physical paper scripts dry, as wet ink leads to illegible lines and professional embarrassment.
"A big part of what we do is making sure the scripts stay dry."
"If a script gets wet I can't read it, I can't tell what's going on in a scene."
The Crew of Sunlight: A Sundance Panel of Underappreciated Laborers
The cast of the short film 'Sunlight' is unavailable, so the panel features the crew: an AD, a gaffer, a career PA, a second-second, and a script supervisor, all sharing their traumatic production stories.
"My name is Frederick Jensen and I've been an assistant director for at least this production and the director's last short film."
"Hey, I'm Carrie Johnson and I am a career PA. I love to do it, there is nothing better."
Crew to Crew Truths: Acting is Easy and Dialysis is Hard
The crew vents their frustrations about actors, claiming memorizing lines is easy compared to taping icebergs together or performing emergency dialysis on Shaka.
"I don't think it's that hard to act. That's my crew to crew truth."
"If you need dialysis, bring a nurse. It's hard to learn on the fly."
"I duct tape my cheeks to my ears, folks. Same duct tape I killed that man with."
The Smorgasbord Method and the Death of Duddy Farshone
The crew recounts the director's 'Smorgasbord' technique of making the crew strip naked in Antarctica to match the actors, leading to the director falling into the sea and dying.
