In addition to sifting through archival footage, the project required dozens of interviews, starting with those who were closest to Stevie and extending out to those the filmers thought would best round out the storyline. Still, it took the next few years before Wittenburg, former team manager Gabe Fox, and the rest of the crew behind the film had processed his loss enough to shoulder the project.
The idea for the film came from sorting through footage to create a video for Stevie's memorial shortly after his death. Then, of course, we watch him start mountain biking, yearn to be the best, and, eventually, get there. We learn how he got his first BMX bike - his mother, Tianna Smith, traded 12 pies for it - and see newspaper clippings from the local papers to commemorate his first wins as a child. Starting at the beginning, at Stevie's birth in 1989, we see baby photos, hear about his early life from his mother and sister, and see the humble trailer where he grew up in Cassidy, outside of Nanaimo, Vancouver Island. From the opening Stevie Smith quote – “I just get worried about, I’m gonna be old and have nothing to show for, like, what I’ve done” – Anthill’s new feature-length documentary, Long Live Chainsaw, is heartbreaking, earnest, and raw.įilm director Darcy Wittenburg said in an interview that no stone was left unturned in the making of the film, and it's true.
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