NFB Collection
It's Just Better
198215 min 23 secFilm: Documentary, Children's film
Direction: Beverly Shaffer
Production: Margaret PettigrewKathleen Shannon
Mugs, mitts and toothbrushes hang from their respective nails, awaiting ten pairs of hands. At the farmhouse on Cape Breton Island where Shawn Peter Dwyer, age ten, lives with his mother and nine brothers and sisters, a team effort keeps the family functioning. The children work and play together. Their pockets are usually empty, but their lives are well filled. A useful film for the study of values and lifestyles.
Availability
Subject categories
- Families > ChildrenFamily PortraitsSingle-parent Families
- Children and Youth > Family LifeLiving Conditions
Credits
- director
- Beverly Shaffer
- producer
- Margaret Pettigrew
- executive producer
- Kathleen Shannon
- cinematography
- Kent Nason
- sound
- Patricia Kipping
- editing
- Donna Read
- sound editing
- Jackie Newell
- re-recording
- Jean-Pierre Joutel
- music
- Chris Rawlings
Awards
- Honorable Mention - Category: Non-Traditional FamiliesItinerant - National Council on Family Relations