Native Reserve Girl Swaps with Bee Farmer

200324 minFilm: Documentary

Direction: Duncan ChristieDaniel Oron

Production: Ira LevyPeter WilliamsonKevin GillisHeather Findlay

Produced by Breakthrough Films and Television Production, in association with TVOntario, Access - Knowledge Network, The Education Station and SCN; with the participation of the Canadian Television Fund created by the Government of Canada and the Canadian cable industry, CTF: Licence Fee Program, CAVCO and The Government of Ontario - The Ontario Film & Television Tax Credit; and with the financial participation of the Shaw Children's Programming Initiative through the Dr. Geoffrey R. Conway Fund and the Shaw Television Broadcast Fund.

Eleven-year-old Shelby holds the title of Miss Minis Six Nations. She is very close to her Native roots: she lives on a reserve, speaks fluent Cayuga and is a jingle dress dancer at pow wows. Rebecca is a ten year-old Dutch bee farmer near Guelph, Ontario. She plays a big part in her family's business in Carlisle, helping to collect combs, smoke bees, make honey and work in the small shop that sells bee and maple products.

The Swap: Shelby learns everything about bee farming - from collecting her own combs to extracting her own honey, while Rebecca immerses herself in Native Culture through food, language and dance at her first ever pow wow.

Subject categories


  • Children and Youth > Canadian YouthYouthful Perspectives

Credits


executive producer
Ira Levy
Peter Williamson
producer
Kevin Gillis
supervising producer
Kirsten Scollie
co-producer
Heather Findlay
director
Duncan Christie
Daniel Oron
editor
Jennifer Essex
production manager
Stephanie Carbert
director of photography
Mark Caswell
John Marsonet
Jason Webber
audio
Margus Jukkum
story manager
Kevin Gillis
theme music
Jack Lenz
Asher Lenz
score composer
Jack Lenz
Asher Lenz
narrator
Alisha Morrison
opening actor
Kyle Kassardjian
Hilary Bannister
post-production manager
Nahid Islam
director's intern
Makiko Ishihara-Oldford
production assistant
Tiffany Mitchell
online editor
Warren Chinn
colourist
Pat Batrynchuk
assistant editor
Jay Tipping
post-production facility
Bullet Digital Post
post-audio production
Richie Neto
post-audio mix
Richie Neto
music engineer
Orest Hrynewich
Stephen Skratt
Sean Kemp
graphics creator
Loop Media Inc.
special effects
Loop Media Inc.
finance
Michael McGuigan
Michelle Trenchard
production accounting
Derek Barbour
legal counsel
Nghia Nguyen
contracts administrator
Alicja Wicinski
publicity
Jill Spitz
development manager
Sarah Adams
manager of new media
Dorothy Vreeker
assistant to the producer
Susie Romano Sacco
insurance
Jones Brown and Associates Ltd.
financial services
Daniel McMullen
Morris Gluck
development for television
Heather Findlay
Kirsty Nordal
Ingrid Moe
Tatyana Terzopoulos
executive
Patricia Ellingson