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Lost Dreams
19995 min 51 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Daniel Frenette
Production: Pierre LapointeDavid Verrall
Script: Daniel Frenette
In Lost Dreams, Kateryna Ewanchuck, a young Ukrainian in Manitoba, reflects on the oppression her people faced as immigrants to Canada. Having watched her father's dreams of owning a farm slip away due to discrimination and hard times, Kateryna takes on the fight for social justice, participating in the One Big Union and the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919.
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Subject categories
- Cultural Diversity and Multiculturalism > Historical PerspectivesImmigration Experience and Social AdjustmentImmigration in Western CanadaPrairiesUkrainian OriginsWorkWorking Life Since 1970
- Work and Labour Relations > Historical PerspectivesStrikesWorking Conditions
- History - Canada - 1867-1919 > Immigration and SettlementPrairies and Western CanadaWork and Labour Relations
Credits
- director
- Daniel Frenette
- script
- Daniel Frenette
- producer
- Pierre Lapointe
- executive producer
- David Verrall
- camera
- Charles Domingue
- animation camera
- André Paul Therrien
- editing
- Claude Palardy
- sound editing
- Luc Préfontaine
- Dominic Cabana
- Andres Norambuena
- sound mix
- Geoffrey Mitchell
- narrator
- Eramelinda Boquer
- cast
- Nathalie Trépanier