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Blake
196919 min 17 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Bill Mason
Production: Douglas Jackson
In this age, when most people follow their dreams passively on the television screen, there are still a few individuals whose passion is for the real thing. Here is a film about such a one, with a passion for wings and the freedom of the skies. Filmed by Bill Mason, whose own devotion is to the canoe (Paddle to the Sea, and Path of the Paddle), the subject here is his friend Blake James, another filmmaker, who pilots his own one-man plane. The film is Mason's view of this "hobo of the skies," but it is also an adventure.
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Subject categories
- Transportation > Aeronautics and AerospaceAircraft and Aviation
- Sports and Leisure > AviationPortraits
- Ethics and Religious Culture > Ethical Values
Credits
- director
- Bill Mason
- editing
- Bill Mason
- producer
- Douglas Jackson
- photography
- Bill Mason
- Blake James
- sound
- Ted Haley
- sound editing
- Bernard Bordeleau
- re-recording
- Roger Lamoureux
- music
- Blake James
- Laurent Coderre
Awards
- Etrog for Best Film under 30 minutesGenie Awards
- Golden Sheaf Award for Best Direction to Bill MasonYorkton Film Festival
- Golden Sheaf Award for Best Social FilmYorkton Film Festival
- Grand Prix - Golden BoomerangInternational Film Festival