NFB Collection
Bayo
19841 h 38 min 5 secFilm: Fiction, Feature-length fiction
Direction: Mort Ransen
Production: Harry GulkinArnie GelbartWendy GreanAndy ThomsonRobert VerrallDorothy Courtois
Script: Mort RansenTerry RyanArnie Gelbart
Co-produced by Jape Film Services Inc., the NFB, and the CBC with the participation of Telefilm Canada.
In a tiny outport on Newfoundland's Bonavista Bay, ten-year-old Bayo awaits the return of his grandfather, Philip Longlan, a legendary fishing captain who is coming home to stay after sixty years at sea. Bayo's mother, Sharon, wants to move to Toronto. However, once ashore, Philip feels driven to go back to the sea--on his own terms. Bayo wants to remain at Tickle Cove with his grandfather and mother. Finally, all three come to terms with themselves, with each other, and with their destinies. Based on the novel Lightly by Chipman Hall.
Subject categories
- Literature and Language > Adaptations of Literary Works
- Literature and Language - Canada > Adaptations of Literary WorksCanadian Literature
- Families > Aged ParentsParent-Child RelationshipsWomen
- Children and Youth > Family Life
Credits
- director
- Mort Ransen
- producer
- Harry Gulkin
- Arnie Gelbart
- Wendy Grean
- executive producer
- Andy Thomson
- Robert Verrall
- associate producer
- Dorothy Courtois
- screenplay
- Mort Ransen
- Terry Ryan
- Arnie Gelbart
- camera
- Georges Dufaux
- sound
- Richard Besse
- editing
- Yves Langlois
- François Gill
- sound editing
- André Galbrand
- re-recording
- Hans Peter Strobl
- Adrian Croll
- music
- Loreena McKennitt
- cast
- Griffith Brewer
- Jane Dingle
- Patrick Lane
- Nellie Ludlow
- Stephen McGrath
- Ed McNamara
- Patricia Phillips
- Maisie Rillie
- Cedric Smith
- Hugh Webster