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Highway to Heaven
201916 min 49 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Sandra Ignagni
Production: Shirley VercruysseTeri Snelgrove
Script: Sandra Ignagni
A place utterly unique in British Columbia and the world, Richmond's No. 5 Road, also known as the “Highway to Heaven,” hosts a multitude of faiths. Side by side are numerous houses of worship, including Buddhist temples, a Sikh gurdwara, Hindu and Swami temples, Shia and Sunni mosques, Christian churches, and Jewish, Islamic and Christian schools. Filmmaker Sandra Ignagni merges beautiful, carefully framed images with a symphonic soundscape that illuminates the intimate lives of the faithful. An evocative documentary that is both a meditation on multiculturalism and a subtle critique of the tensions that underlie cultural diversity in Canada today.
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Subject categories
- Cultural Diversity and Multiculturalism > British ColumbiaReligious Communities
- Religion, Beliefs and Ethics > BuddhismChristianityHinduismIslamJudaismMulticulturalismReligious Buildings
- Social Studies > Communities in Canada/World
- Diversity > Diversity in Communities
- Health/Personal Development > Identity
- Ethics and Religious Culture > Religious Diversity/Heritage
Credits
- participation
- Az-Zahraa Islamic Centre/ Az-Zahraa Isla
- Evangelical Formosan Church of Greater V
- India Cultural Centre of Canada/ Gurdwar
- Kingswood Pub
- Lingyen Mountain Temple
- Mylora Executive Golf Course
- Richmond Jewish Day School
- Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Richmond
- Thrangu Tibetan Buddhist Monastery
- Trinity Pacific Evangelical Church
- Vedic Centre
- writer
- Sandra Ignagni
- director
- Sandra Ignagni
- producer
- Shirley Vercruysse
- associate producer
- Teri Snelgrove
- line production
- Jennifer Roworth
- director of photography
- Andrew Coppin
- editor
- Milena Salazar
- sound design
- Eva Madden
- sound recordist
- Lisa Kolisnyk
- David Pullmer
- 1st assistant camera
- Mikah Sharkey
- 2nd assistant camera
- Eva Brownstein
- data wrangler
- Odessa Shuquaya
- gaffer
- Paul Murakami
- grip
- Chalane Hayward
- production coordinator
- Kristyn Stilling
- technical coordinator
- Wes Machnikowski
- production assistant
- Josephine Anderson
- Ahmad Ali Jaffer
- Sayyidah Jaffer
- Hoi Bing Mo
- Milena Salazar
- Baljit Sangra
- graphic designer
- Tim Linklater
- colourist
- Lionel Barton
- re-recording mixer
- Greg Stewart
- Joe Watts
- project participant
- Abba Brodt
- Dale Burdhial
- Chris Carmichael
- Carol Day
- Kevin Krygier
- Bill McNulty
- Savitri Narayan
- Harold Steves
- Justin Tse
- development mentorship
- J.P. Sniadecki
- Brett Story
- UnionDocs Center for Documentary Art - summer intensive
- Christopher Allen
- Lucila Moctezuma
- Martha Shane
- marketing manager
- Kay Rondonneau
- publicist
- Katja De Bock
- studio administrator
- Carla Jones
- executive producer
- Shirley Vercruysse
- executive director
- Michelle van Beusekom