A Crack in the Pavement: Growing Dreams

200019 min 16 secFilm: Documentary, Children's film

Direction: Jane ChurchillGwynne Basen

Production: David VerrallMichael Fukushima

Produced by the NFB, ACI East, with the financial support of Evergreen.

A Crack in the Pavement is a two-part video set that shows children, teachers and parents how, working together to green their school grounds, they can make positive changes in their communities. Growing Dreams gives an inspirational overview of school ground greening. It shows what kids have done to transform bare pavement into dream schoolyards: growing trees for shade, flowers for butterflies, vegetables for a food bank; building a greenhouse, a rooftop garden and constructing a courtyard pond as an outdoor classroom and refuge for wildlife.

Subject categories


  • Urbanism > Community Life
  • Education > Curriculum
  • Children and Youth > Education and School LifeSocial Action
  • Agriculture > Food Issues
  • Environment and Conservation > Social Action
  • Social Studies > Environmental Challenges
  • Geography > Environmental Issues
  • Science > Environmental ScienceLife Systems/Ecology

Credits


director
Jane Churchill
Gwynne Basen
cinematographer
Jim Aquila
location sound
Ross Redfern
picture editor
Ewa Turska
sound editor
Tony Reed
graphics
Sophia Southam
animation
Sophia Southam
original music
Chris Crilly
music recording
Eric Lemoyne
re-recording
Jean Paul Vialard
online editor
Sylvain Desbiens
production assistant
Douglas Barron
Shereen Jerrett
Michael Kuehn
Marilyn Pomer
Satya M. Ramen
Razel Robins
research
Jane Churchill
post-production co-ordinator
Éric Barbeau
Richard Lesage
program administrator
Gisèle Guilbault
executive producer
David Verrall
producer
Michael Fukushima

Awards


  • Honorable Mention - Category: Science and Technology International Film and Video Festival