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All of Our Lives
198329 min 55 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Laura Sky
Production: Laura SkyHelene Klodawsky
Script: Helene Klodawsky
Produced for the NFB by Sky Works Charitable Foundation for Health and Welfare Canada.
This title is an acquisition.
All of Our Lives examines the reasons why many women face economic hardship and emotional isolation in old age. It is a film about past dreams and, for the most part, unexpected realities. Elderly women from a variety of backgrounds and circumstances recall their girlhood ideals, and contrast them with the experiences of their actual adult lives. The film challenges audiences to re-evaluate the undervalued and often "invisible" world of child-rearing and work in the home.
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Subject categories
- Families > Aged ParentsWomen
- Women > Elderly WomenPovertySocial Conditions
- Seniors > Isolation and SolitudeSocial ProblemsWomen
Credits
- producer
- Laura Sky
- Helene Klodawsky
- director
- Laura Sky
- script
- Helene Klodawsky
- associate producer
- Anne Koyama
- editing
- Cathy Gulkin
- cinematography
- Serge Giguère
- sound recording
- Lorna Rasmussen
- music
- Patrick Godfrey
- re-recording
- David Appleby
Awards
- Blue Ribbon Award - Category: Human Concerns Itinerant - American Film and Video Festival