NFB Collection
Anne Ross - Rebel with a Cause
199752 min 38 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Hilary Jones-Farrow
Production: Hilary Jones-FarrowJill SwartzJennifer TorranceSher Morgan
Script: Hilary Jones-FarrowJill Swartz
Co-produced by The May Street Group Film, Video and Animation Ltd. and the NFB.
When Anne Ross saw a need in her community, she did something about it. If children needed to be fed, bathed or hugged, she responded. When abused women needed counselling, Anne Ross made sure they got help.
Her years of experience in community service confirmed her belief that people's health could not be separated from their emotional, social and economic circumstances. This conviction led her to pioneer a holistic approach to the delivery of services at Winnipeg's Mount Carmel Community Clinic.
Anne passed away in 1998, in her eighties. This video reveals the story of a great Canadian health activist and serves as a testament to what one person can accomplish through love and commitment.
Subject categories
- Women - Portraits > Health and Illness
- Health and Medicine > Portraits
Credits
- director
- Hilary Jones-Farrow
- editing
- Hilary Jones-Farrow
- producer
- Hilary Jones-Farrow
- Jill Swartz
- Jennifer Torrance
- associate producer
- Sher Morgan
- script
- Hilary Jones-Farrow
- Jill Swartz
- photography
- David Malysheff
- sound
- Sherry Antonishen
- narrator
- Elizabeth Gorrie
- music
- Ken Williams
- Karel Roessingh