NFB Collection
Hayley's Home Movie
198723 min 20 secFilm: Fiction, Children's film
Direction: Gail Singer
Production: Michael ScottJohn Spotton
Script: Gail Singer
Part of the Finding Our Way series, which deals with contemporary family-life issues, this is the story of twelve-year-old Hayley, who must acknowledge the finality of parental separation when her father's new girlfriend abruptly enters her life. All the issues surrounding separation are realistically evoked. Hayley's anger, and her fantasy about her parents reuniting, are the central focus. But Hayley's personality is irrepressible; she finds strength in her own imagination and creativity, thus effecting the beginnings of a resolution.
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Subject categories
- Families > ChildrenDivorce and Separation
- Social Issues > ChildrenFamily Life
- Children and Youth > Divorce and Separation
- Family Studies/Home Economics > Family Diversity and ChallengesRelationships
Credits
- director
- Gail Singer
- script
- Gail Singer
- producer
- Michael Scott
- executive producer
- John Spotton
- photography
- Marc Champion
- sound
- Stuart French
- editing
- Toni Myers
- sound editing
- Jeremy MacLaverty
- re-recording
- Jack Herron
- music
- Maribeth Solomon
- Micky Erbe
- cast
- Alli Goldwater
- Zoe Greenberg
- Keram Malicki-Sanchez
- Tony Rosato
- Michèle Scarabelli
- Linda Sorensen
- John Swindells