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The Dogwalker
20071 h 16 min 13 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Rosie Dransfeld
Production: Rosie Dransfeld (ID: Productions Inc)Bonnie Thompson (National Film Board of Canada)Graydon McCreaDerek Mazur
Script: Rosie Dransfeld
Produced by Dogwalker Productions Inc. in co-production with the National Film Board of Canada in association with Canadian Learning Television and SCN, with the participation of the Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit, and with the assistance of the Alberta Film Development Program of the Alberta Government.
A happy gang of dogs heads into the woods. Leading the pack is Michael Borowski - amateur playwright, rambling philosopher and survivor of childhood brain injury.
The Dogwalker is a remarkable cinéma-vérité portrait, a moving account of one man's battle to reconstruct a shattered identity - and a winning meditation on Zen and the Art of Dogwalking.
"I'm the alpha," he says, untanglling the leashes. Meet The Dogwalker. Take a walk with the master.
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Subject categories
- People with disabilities > LifestylesPortraitsTreatment and Rehabilitation
- Animals > Pets
Credits
- writer
- Rosie Dransfeld
- director
- Rosie Dransfeld
- producer
- Rosie Dransfeld
- Bonnie Thompson
- Graydon McCrea
- director of photography
- Lisa Fryklund
- second camera
- Rosie Dransfeld
- editor
- Michel Lalonde
- music composition
- Larry Becker
- sound design
- Blackman Productions
- production manager
- Leah Iwaniuk
- additional camera
- David Benson
- Daron Donahue
- Art Raham
- Randy Tomiuk
- sound recordist
- John Blerot
- Gerry Clarke
- Larry MacDonald
- Carey Opper
- Mike Sanders
- production assistant
- Sheena Moore
- location grip
- Philip Dransfeld
- video post production services
- National Film Board of Canada
- online editor
- Kevin House
- Jed Pelech
- executive producer
- Derek Mazur
- marketing manager
- Kelly Isaac
- participation
- Michael Borowski