October 24, 2019 rbbm
Exclusive: The Lone Wolf, documentary
"The Avro Post was able to get an inside look at the abduction of Jammar Allison, documented by a group of film and television production students at Humber College.
Film can be a powerful tool for storytelling, and documentary filmmaking can highlight issues that would otherwise be ignored or bring information to a new audience, as is the case for the crew of
The Lone Wolf."
"Produced by Jordana Bain, 22, and directed by Kijhai Boreland, 28 – the documentary focuses on Omar Allison, the brother of Jammar Allison who was abducted in June 2018.
“The kidnappers had wanted some ransom money, so he made arrangements to drop it off for them, hopefully in exchange for his brother. But unfortunately, the exchange didn’t go down as it was supposed to, so he never got his brother back. They got the money and got away” Boreland told me."
Kijhai continues to delve deeper into the harder hitting questions from their story, “When I was interviewing Omar’s best friend, Jemaine, he started to cry after I asked him ‘where do you think Jammar is now?'” and because I knew Jammar – I started to cry too.
“When I was interviewing the parents as well, I asked the mom ‘On the day Jammar had been taken, where were you?’ and she began telling me, and slowly she started breaking down and I cried too.” Kijhai finishes.
In order to bring back some happiness, the crew asked the parents to go back to the beginning and remember the good times, such as how they felt when they first found out they were having twins.
One of the heaviest moments during production was when the crew took Omar back to the scene of the attempted ransom exchange. It was both a touchy thing to approach, but could also be a healing process. During the time that they prepped their equipment, Kijhai sat with Omar and explained the scene, and he was visibly anxious, snapping a band he wears on his wrist the entire time they filmed.
