Granville in the Movies!

Here is the trailer for “God Don’t Make the Laws,” a new feature length picture filmed last year in Granville (about 75% of it anyway). . The film is by independent Three Dog Night, which reports it has distribution agreements in place for Europe, Australia and Asia, and expects to have one finalized soon in the U.S. Meanwhile, it makes its U.S. debut in a special screening at the Arena Grand Theatre in Columbus on December 1.

Virtually all of the exterior shots and many of the interior shots were done in and around Granville. Here are just a few of the shots from the trailer:
First 15 seconds: Granville area countryside. (The steel bridge over the river at 0:09, however,is the Ohio River, I believe.)
0:21-0:23: That’s Broadway, Granville’s main boulevard, looking west from the corner of Prospect Street. The building on the left is Town Hall; in the upper left you see two church spires, the white one being the Episcopal Church, the gray stone one from the First Baptist Church.
0:54: The man on the motorcycle enters town via West Broadway, near Plum Street, just around the corner from our house.
1:06: I think that’s the intersection of Pearl and Summit Streets.
1:07: The boy in front of the house – that could be any of several Granville homes, but I think it is the Mershons’ house at the corner of Granger and College Streets.
1;21: That’s Aladdin’s diner.
1:23: I get my haircuts at the Village Barber Shop on North Prospect St.
1:27: Interior shots of the “town meeting” are in the Episcopal Church. The church is also used for exterior shots.
1:58: Fight scene is in front of the Village Coffee Shop on Broadway.
1:59: Scooter shot outside of Taylor (CVS) Drug.

Granville was chosen for the shooting because it so perfectly evokes small town America.

You can also see the trailer here

Here was the Granville Times account during the shooting.

Granville is also featured in this soon to be released short, Killer. Our friend Joanne Geiger, who owns the Readers Garden bookstore, was such a hit with the crew when they filmed in her shop that she ended up with a speaking role as, well, “Bookstore Owner.”

Here’s the trailer: .
You can see a brief cut of Joanne in the trailer – she’ll be identifiable, and that is filmed in her store. At 0:22 in the trailer a couple is riding in a carriage – that’s our friend Diana’s carriage – we board our horses at her farm just outside of town. In the background is the Village Library on the right and the Robbins-Hunter Museum on the left (the white building with the pillars). The scene at 0:58 is the corner of South Prospect and Broadway, looking past the Post Office, Library, and Robbins-Hunter Museum. The gift store where the kid grabs the man’s bag is the Granville Mill.

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