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Life with Murder
201059 min 38 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: John Kastner
Production: John KastnerDeborah ParksSilva BasmajianRobert HurstBob Culbert
Script: John Kastner
Produced by JS Kastner Productions in co-production with the National Film Board of Canada in association with CTV.
When their son is accused of murdering his sister, a mother and father face perhaps the most awful decision any parent could have to make: whether to break with their son or accept him back into the family. With astonishing footage shot over a ten-year period, from minutes after the crime was committed to the present, the film follows the family’s evolving relationships.
Subject categories
- Families > Family Portraits
- Law and Crime > Murder
Credits
- producer
- John Kastner
- Silva Basmajian
- director
- John Kastner
- writer
- John Kastner
- co-producer
- Deborah Parks
- executive producer
- Silva Basmajian
- production executive
- Robert Hurst
- Bob Culbert
- editor
- Greg West
- director of photography
- Mark Caswell
- John Westheuser
- composer
- Bruce Fowler
- sound recordist
- Doug Kaye
- consulting producer
- Amy Barnes
- researcher
- Amy Barnes
- additional camera
- Doug Paul
- Elizabeth Marshall
- Jib operator
- Wojtek Kozlowski
- location stills
- Geoff George
- assistant editor
- Andrew Brose
- online editor
- Kyle Brock
- colourist
- Kyle Brock
- creative director
- Sean Evans
- graphic designer
- Gavin McDonald
- supervising sound editor
- Stephen Barden
- re-recording mixer
- Stephen Barden
- additional sound editing
- Niall Collins
- Coll Anderson
- assistant sound editor
- Diane Birsan
- music score engineer
- Mike Duncan
- violin
- Adele Armin
- Wendy Rose
- viola
- Uri Mayer
- cello
- Coenraad Bloemendal
- transcription
- Chris Warren
- Laurel Toews
- production assistant
- Gabriel Kastner
- production accountant
- Anne Sinclair
- production auditor
- Steven Friedman
- entertainment lawyer
- Gigi Morin
- Iain MacKinnon
- publicity
- David McCaughna
- production insurance
- Judy Heron
- business & legal affairs
- Corrie Coe
- production supervisor
- Mark Wilson
- production coordinator
- Rachel Punwassie