Tuscaloosa premieres at Nashville!

The film Tuscaloosa, based on the book by the same name by W. Glasgow Phillips and staring Natalia Dyer of Stranger Things, premeired at the Nashville Film Festival on October 5th. The film was directed by Philip Harder and production designed by Mark Wojahn in 2017. Wojahn led the art dept and coordinated set decoration, props, construction and paint. He had a great crew of Sarah Jean Shervin as his decorator, Elizabeth Richardson as his propmaster, Cooper Sheehan as construction boss and Benjamin Bayne as charge scenic. Many others supported these dept heads. The challenge was large for the crew to supply a vintage 1970s Alabama look in Minnesota locations. The team rose to the challenge.

Tuscaloosa - Festival Trailer from Patrick Riley on Vimeo.

The big set to design and build was the BBQ shack. The shack took over seven design drafts and 3 different locations to find the right fit for the film. Director Harder pushed Wojahn to build something that felt historic and that alligned with the directors image of the deep south. They both agreed that the below sketchup was a good basic design to start the build.

Decorator Shervin scored big points and found an organic farm in Anoka county that was to become the location for the shack, drive in movie and grandpas house.

Construction started and the crew transformed this garlic drying shed into the films Paradise BBQ shack.

After much work, sweat and skill the shack was complete.

Wojahn is very proud of his crew and hard work they all performed to get this film across the art dept finish line.  According to the producer Patrick Riley, the film will play festivals in 2019 and have a general release in spring 2020. To see more info on Tuscaloosa go to their website.

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