Demin Bichir and Julia Goldani Telles will be the first to say that shooting Beacon on location was simultaneously one of the most challenging and most rewarding perhaps even most fun experiences they’d ever had on a production. “The actual location kind of gave me everything that I needed because it [was] such a violent climate,” said Goldani Telles of the storms in Newfoundland, a small coastal province in Canada, in our Zoom interview ahead of the film’s premiere at the 2024 Tribeca Festival. She later recalled how the cast and crew even lost “a couple half-days [because] the wind was too intense it was too dangerous.” Of course, when you’re making a shipwreck thriller, these conditions are ideal.