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Older Stronger Wiser
198927 min 59 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Claire Prieto
Production: Ginny StikemanRina Fraticelli
Script: Dionne Brand
Five Black women talk about their lives in rural and urban Canada between the 1920s and 1950s. What emerges is a unique history of Canada's Black people and the legacy of their community elders. Older Stronger Wiser is the first film in a Studio D series entitled Women at the Well.
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Subject categories
- Cultural Diversity and Multiculturalism > African OriginsHistorical PerspectivesOntarioWomen
- Women > Cultural GroupsHistorical Perspectives
Credits
- director
- Claire Prieto
- producer
- Ginny Stikeman
- editing
- Ginny Stikeman
- executive producer
- Rina Fraticelli
- script
- Dionne Brand
- camera
- Joan Hutton
- sound
- Diane Carrière
- sound editing
- Clare Bambrough
- re-recording
- Shelley Craig
- narrator
- Marva Jackson
- music
- Faith Nolan