NFB Collection
George's Island
19891 h 29 min 8 secFilm: Fiction, Children's film, Feature-length fiction
Direction: Paul Donovan
Production: Maura O'ConnellStefan WodoslawskyPaul DonovanJ. William Ritchie
Script: Maura O'ConnellPaul Donovan
Co-produced by Salter Street Films Limited and the NFB with the financial assistance of Telefilm Canada and with the participation of First Choice and the Province of Nova Scotia.
George Waters, a ten-year-old orphan, lives on a cove on the edge of Halifax with his wheelchair-bound grandfather who regales him with stories of the treasure that pirates buried on George's Island, which lies right in the middle of Halifax harbour. George's prissy schoolteacher Cloata Birdwood and Mr. Droonfield, a mild-mannered but priggish social worker, force George into a foster home where he's locked behind bars each night. But amidst the whirlwind of events surrounding Halloween, George escapes to George's Island, where Captain Kidd and his crew dance a ghostly jig around a treasure chest that's been buried for 250 years.
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Subject categories
- Families > Aged ParentsChildrenFamily LifeSociety and the Family
- Social Issues > Children
- Children and Youth > Family Life
Credits
- director
- Paul Donovan
- producer
- Maura O'Connell
- Stefan Wodoslawsky
- executive producer
- Paul Donovan
- Maura O'Connell
- J. William Ritchie
- script
- Maura O'Connell
- Paul Donovan
- photography
- Les Krizsan
- animation camera
- Pierre Landry
- sound
- Allan Scarth
- editing
- Stephan Fanfara
- sound editing
- Gordon Kidd
- animation
- François Aubry
- re-recording
- Hans Peter Strobl
- Adrian Croll
- music
- Marty Simon
- cast
- Ian Bannen
- Maury Chaykin
- Brian Downey
- Irene Hogan
- Chas Lawther
- Sheila McCarthy
- Nathaniel Moreau
- Gary Reineke
- Vicki Ridler
- Avery Saltzman