NFB Collection
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.
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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