NFB Collection
Nicholas
198931 min 46 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Hubert Schuurman
Production: Shelagh MackenzieGermaine Ying Gee Wong
Script: Susan MacPhee
Produced by the NFB in association with the G. Allan Roeher Institute and the Disabled Persons Unit of Health and Welfare Canada.
Nicholas recounts the story of how the parents of a severely disabled child in a fishing village in Nova Scotia won for their son the right to a normal, loving family life. They did this through an innovative respite care program, developed by a social worker with the Canadian Association for Community Living. The film demonstrates that it is possible for individuals and government institutions to work together to devise imaginative community-based respite care programs.
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Subject categories
- Families > Children
- People with disabilities > Children with DisabilitiesPeople with Physical DisabilitiesSocial Services
- Social Issues > Family LifeSocial Services in Canada
- Children and Youth > Young persons with disabilities
Credits
- director
- Hubert Schuurman
- camera
- Hubert Schuurman
- producer
- Shelagh Mackenzie
- executive producer
- Germaine Ying Gee Wong
- commentary
- Susan MacPhee
- sound
- Arthur McKay
- editing
- Hubert Schuurman
- Kimberlee McTaggart
- sound editing
- Jane Porter
- re-recording
- Terry Cooke
- Christian Cooke
- narrator
- Jenny Munday
- music
- Scott MacMillan