Mega music fan searches for forever homes for his epic collection

CBC News

· Posted: Mar 16, 2025 7:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 10 minutes ago

It's a bully happening Doug Kretchmer isn't enthralled with cats. 

Instead, the Winnipegger is passionate about, oregon perchance obsessed with, music. 

Inside a northbound Winnipeg warehouse that is besides his home, Kretchmer came to a realization. He needed to dramatically downsize his euphony collection, estimated astatine much than 10,000 pieces.

"The main surviving country is 14 by 14 [feet, astir 4 metres by 4 metres]. The near partition is each records. The close partition is each records. The beforehand partition is each CDs. And we're talking astir a 12-foot-high ceiling, truthful I'm surrounded by it," helium said.

But soon aft moving into the warehouse, helium was successful two major car accidents within 2 months.

"I could not locomotion for a while," said Kretchmer.

"My beingness benignant of truly changed. And you truly rethink everything, and I'm thinking, 'Wow, if that was fatal, my household would person had to woody with my full collection,' and wherever would it person ended up kind of thing."

So now, each weekend, you volition find Kretchmer astatine Winnipeg's Mulvey Market, selling disconnected his postulation of LPs, CDs and cassettes. 

"Knowing that immoderate of my truly valuable-to-me worldly volition spell to a large location wherever idiosyncratic volition admit it, you know, I emotion that idea," helium said.

Kretchmer's communicative is present the taxable of a short, three-minute documentary by students successful the Create program at Sisler High School.

Create students Markus Penner, Gianluca Caldarola and Joshua Soriano produced the caller video.

Meet the filmmakers

Markus Penner developed a passionateness for movie during his spread twelvemonth aft precocious school. He is profoundly invested successful storytelling and enjoys exploring acquainted ideas done caller perspectives.

In his spare time, helium likes to work past books, commercialized stocks and constitute movie reviews. In the future, helium aims to go a screenwriter and director.

Every time is simply a caller situation for Gianluca Caldarola, whether he's volunteering for section shot teams taking photos oregon creating caller squad designs.

Caldarola loves being engaged and has a ample scope of projects connected the go. He volunteers with Pros Vs Joes, a week-long lawsuit successful December that supports families successful need. He besides volunteers photographing pupil athletes and taking portraits for awards ceremonies astatine his erstwhile precocious schoolhouse Sturgeon Heights.

In his spare time, helium likes watching movies, going connected quality walks successful parks and biking.

Joshua Soriano is simply a freelance videographer who has been moving with cameras since 2023. He started doing sports photography for the Sisler Spartans. Since graduating from Sisler High School, helium has started his vocation arsenic a sports videographer, moving with U Sports athletes and teams crossed Manitoba. 

More astir Project POV: Sisler Create

CBC Manitoba's Project POV: Sisler Create is a storytelling collaboration that partners filmmaking students with CBC Manitoba journalists to nutrient abbreviated documentaries. You can see past projects here. 

The Winnipeg School Division's Create programme is hosted astatine Sisler High School and trains post-high students successful the originative integer arts, including filmmaking.

During autumn 2024, CBC journalists taught storytelling to filmmaking students and led accumulation workshops at Sisler.

Create focuses on acquisition and vocation pathways into the originative industries. Students tin instrumentality courses successful animation, film, crippled design, ocular effects, graphic plan and interactive integer media.