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Bill Keenan bit the hand that fed him for 20 years and now audiences all over North America are having the last laugh. Shot inWhitchurch-Stoufiville, in the York Region Forest and Whitchurch Conservation Area, over 18 days in the summer of 2007, Mr. Keenan’s feature film debut, Eating Bucca- neers, is about four self-absorbed advertising executives and their client who crash land their small plane in the Northern Ontario woods and have nothing but Buccaneer bars Stouffville can see itself as N. Ontario in new movie eâ€" . P ,' Hot ubs 294- 27 IEBI'I'ABE Ill, Imam '0' VII‘ BY SANDRA BOLAN sbolan@yrmg.com FILMED HERE IN 2007, EATING BUCCANEERS TO BE SCREENED AT NINETEEN 0N PARK to eat and each other to rely on. “Advertising people are larger-than-life people, but they know how to make fun of themselves,” Mr. Keenan said of how he was able to make the film without jeopardizing his career in radio and television commercials. The cast is made up of a who’s who in Canadian comedic talent: Jeff White (Little Mosque on the Prairie), Shannon Beckner (Billable Hours), Steven McCarthy (Dead Mary) and Neil Crone, who is a high school buddy of Mr. Keenan's. Also starring in the movie is Peter Keleghan (Billable Hours, Seinfeld and The Red Green Show) whom Mr. Keenan met for the first time a few years ago while the pair were working on a commercial together. “I took him aside and I pitched him on the idea," Mr. Keenan said. “He loved the script so much he called me and said I'm in and by the way. my partner is leah Pinsent and 1 think she would make a great Vanessa." As part of the shoot, the cast and crew had to spend one day in Algonquin Park Wanting to make a weekend of it. Mr. Keleghan and Ms Pinsent went up a few days earlier and STAFF PHOTO/STEVE SOMERVILLE brought her father â€" famed Canadian actor Gordon Pinsent, along for the trip. Mr. Pinsent read tlie scn'pt, saw what was going on and asked if he could be in the movie. “Gordon Pinsent in my first feature film? Let me think about that. I said Mr. Keenan said, noting he had to quickly create a character for Mr. Pinsent to play that would make sense. - The result is a sceneâ€"stealing crazy back- woods trapper. Q Opinion Shopping Classified Sports Sec ROOKIE, [my Stouffville Secondary’s Caroline Rankin (1125) and Demi Chalkias (1113), Kristen Marchant of New- market (far right), and Heather Simpson from Markville Secondary pass Joanna Chan of Thomhill St. Robert as she takes a spill during the girls stee- plechase at York University in the York Region Athletic Association track and field championships Thursday. For Day 1 results from Stouflville competitors, see story on page 12. SPLISH, SPLASH I“