NFB Collection
Holding Our Ground
198850 min 52 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Anne Henderson
Production: Anne HendersonBarrie HowellsRose Hutchinson
Script: David WilsonAnne Henderson
Produced by the NFB with the financial assistance of the Canadian International Development Agency, the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, the Ontario Ministry of Housing, Habitat, UNICEF, and UNDP.
Filmed in a squatter community of Labangon in Cebu, Philippines, Holding Our Ground is the inspiring story of a group of women who have organized collectively to pressure their government for land reform, to establish their own money-lending system and to create shelters for street kids. A story of grassroots organizing that can be a model in both hemispheres.
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Subject categories
- Developing Countries > Asia - Southeast AsiaSocial ChangeSocial ProblemsUrbanismWomenYouth
- Social Issues > ChildrenPovertySocial Issues in Foreign CountriesUrban LifeWomen
- Urbanism > Community LifeForeign CountriesHousing and Urban Planning in Developping CountriesSocial ConditionsUrban Life
- Women > Developing CountriesSocial Action
- Children and Youth > Living ConditionsRunaways and Street ChildrenYouth of the World
Credits
- director
- Anne Henderson
- producer
- Anne Henderson
- editing
- Anne Henderson
- executive producer
- Barrie Howells
- associate producer
- Rose Hutchinson
- script
- David Wilson
- Anne Henderson
- photography
- Kent Nason
- sound
- Diane Carrière
- sound editing
- Jean-Pierre Viau
- Bill Graziadei
- music
- André Duchesne