film & video
FOR CBC NEWS SUNDAY and THE HALLMARK CHANNEL
THE LAST WEIR VANISHING MAGIC OF THE DIGBY NECK
It’s a haunting, ancient structure — Stonehenge in sticks. And it hums with an ancient magic, trapping the fish as the tide runs out. Stanley Stanton’s is the last of the herring weirs on Nova Scotia’s Fundy shore — and the tide may be running out for him, too.
But as industrialization, overfishing and a proposed basalt quarry threaten the Digby Neck, the old, slow magic of Stanley’s weir may just hold the key to a sustainable future.
FOR JOURNEYMAN FILM COMPANY AND TIMBERHART WOODWORKS
PSALM: Elegy for a Country Church
A 200-year old wooden church in Nova Scotia’s Annapolis Valley, home to generations of Anglicans (Church of England), is carefully dismantled for historically ironic shipment to its new home in rural Louisiana.
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FOR THE NATIONAL FILM BOARD OF CANADA AND THE SHOREFAST FOUNDATION
RETURN TO FOGO ISLAND
Homage to the NFB and director Colin Low’s landmark 1967 film The Children of Fogo Island — even using its musical score — this short film revisits the island, off the remote northeast coast of Newfoundland, in 2010 as it finds itself in a surprising process of renewal.
FOR NATIONAL FILM BOARD OF CANADA INTERACTIVE
THE OLD MEN OF MY VILLAGE
I feel something of an irrational fondness for old men. Not “seniors”, not “old folks,” but genuine elders. And not, I don’t think, just because I trust I’m on the way to becoming one. So I have begun to ruminate, through poetry and portraiture, on their inner lives, especially those of the rich, ribald characters who inhabit my village. Singer/songwriter Bob Snider is one of them.
FOR THE JESUITS IN ENGLISH CANADA
ALL MY RELATIONS The Jesuits in Canada 1611 - 2011
On May 22, 1611, two Jesuit Fathers from France landed at the tiny settlement of Port-Royal on the east coast of what is now Canada. 400 years later, they gathered at the site of Samuel Champlain’s Habitation to commemorate and re-enact their arrival.
FOR THE NATIONAL FILM BOARD OF CANADA
GRIEFWALKER
“We’re all going to die.” All too easily said. But how many, especially in present-day Western culture, really know this? How has it become possible to be a so-called adult in our time, and not know it? Griefwalker, Tim Wilson’s feature length NFB documentary, sets its lens on Stephen Jenkinson, an extraordinary teacher and counselor who has no qualms about being called “The Angel of Death.”
“A film about the redemptive power of deep love for life, when life glimpses its end.”
FOR CBC NEWS SUNDAY and THE DOCUMENTARY CHANNEL
UPRIGHT GRAND MUSIC, MEMORY AND A MOTHER’S MIND
If you listened, you could hear in her music the subtle signs of her decline. Searching over and over for notes and chords. Getting lost in the tunes she’d played for years.
Now, we children have gathered in her apartment — not for the first time — to broach with our mother the subject of “the home.” And nothing can soften our brutal choice.
