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Long Lance
198655 minFilm: Documentary
Direction: Bernie Dichek
Production: Jerry KrepakevichTom Radford
Script: Donald BrittainBernie Dichek
Was he Black man, White man, or Indigenous Chief? This film looks at a legendary and fascinating impostor, Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance. In the early 1900s, he garnered international acclaim as a soldier, journalist, writer, photographer, bon vivant and movie star. Despite his very public life, the truth of his origins remain shrouded in mystery. Based on a book by Donald Smith, this film outlines Long Lance's almost unbelievable life story.
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Subject categories
- Cultural Diversity and Multiculturalism > Indigenous intercultural relationsPortraits
- Indigenous Peoples in Canada (First Nations and Métis) > Portraits
- Indigenous Studies > History/PoliticsIdentity/Society
- Diversity > Identity
- Social Studies > Social History
Credits
- director
- Bernie Dichek
- producer
- Jerry Krepakevich
- executive producer
- Tom Radford
- script
- Donald Brittain
- Bernie Dichek
- photography
- James Jeffrey
- sound
- Jerry Krepakevich
- Don Paches
- George Tarrant
- editing
- Peter Svab
- sound editing
- Gerald K. Wilson
- narrator
- Donald Brittain
- music
- Roger Deegan
- cast
- Clarence Comrie
- Daryl Duke
- Eric E. Martin
- Albert Kerovack
- Orest Kinasewich
- Edmund Many Bears
- Raymond Many Bears
- Samuel Mottrich
- Marlane O'Brien
- Wendell Smith
- Dan Weasel Moccasin
Awards
- Award for Best Overall Sound (Gerry Wilson, Jerry Krepakevich, Don Paches, George Tarrant)Annual Alberta Film and Television Awards
- Award for Best Script non-fiction (Donald Brittain, Bernard Dichek)Annual Alberta Film and Television Awards
- Award for Editing (Peter Svab)Annual Alberta Film and Television Awards
- Award for Best Documentary Annual Alberta Film and Television Awards
- Award for Best Direction non-fiction (Bernard Dichek)Annual Alberta Film and Television Awards
- Award for Best Music (Roger Deegan)Annual Alberta Film and Television Awards