Madison business receives Emmy nomination
Go Remote, Inc. Adventures was nominated for Mid-America Emmy award for the film “Injury Slight, Please Advise.”
Although the film did not win, Steve Cushman, owner of Go Remote said it was an honor to be nominated.
“We were up against the big guys and we were privately funded,” Cushman said. “There were a lot of corporations and networks we were competing against, so we considered a real privilege to be nominated.”
Filming of the movie took about four years from beginning to the final stages.
The 35th Emmy gala was held at the Renaissance Grand Hotel in St. Louis Oct. 22.
The film is a full-length movie about a WWII pilot.
Cushman was featured in the film production by award winning Arkansas film producer, Josh Baxter, of Arion Pictures.
“Injury Slight, Please Advise,” is a previous Telly Award Bronze Winner in 2010 and was among the nominees at the GI Film Festival at the Carnage Institute in Washington, D.C. The film had a private showing, sponsored by the Boeing Company, at the Monaco Theater at Bridgestreet where veterans received a special screening. All the proceeds from the viewing were donated by the Boeing company.
“[The veterans] all were very complimentary about it,” Cushman said.
The film recounts a WWII fighter pilot’s escape from native headhunters after his P-38 fighter plane was shot down in New Guinea.
Cushman arranged translators coordinated with tribes and led the film crew in to locate and film the original fighter plane previously discovered reasonably intact but deep in the remote, and still wild, jungles of northern Papua New Guinea near the Equator and above Australia.
“Injury Slight, Please Advise” is titled for the first brief radio message that pilot Capt. Charles O’Sullivan sent after his survival of 30 days in the jungle before contacting an Australian outpost.
O’Sullivan, who later became a fighter Ace with 5 Japanese aircraft downing’s to his credit, relates his survival story accurately from the comfort of his library as the producer breaks away to jungle reenactment scenes of natives ( filmed in Honduras) and eye witness interviews and the wreck footage, including Cushman in remote Papua New Guinea.
Cushman supported producer Baxter as logistics coordinator and guide for the remote wreck site in Papua New Guinea following the warning by expert anthropologists not to reveal any association with the surviving WWII pilot or the wreck site due to tribal traditions of retaliation.
