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Our Town Faro
20048 min 31 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Mitch MiyagawaDavid Oppenheim
Production: Svend-Erik EriksenRina Fraticelli
Produced by Pacific & Yukon Centre National Film Board of Canada, Northern Sights Documentary Initiative Program with the participation of Yukon Film Incentive Program.
One of the three films in the Northern Sights Yukon film competition, Our Town Faro is about a town and a man. Faro was supposed to die. The mine closed down and people began to drift away. From a population of over 2,000 it dwindled to 70. Murray Hampton, a man who had been there from the beginning, was determined to see the town survive. Today its population is 300 and growing.
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Subject categories
- Mining > Mining Communities
- History and Citizenship Education > Economy and Development (1500-present)Population and Settlement (1608-present)
- Geography > Human Geography
Credits
- director
- Mitch Miyagawa
- David Oppenheim
- producer
- Svend-Erik Eriksen
- cinematographer
- Allan Code
- sound recordist
- Michael Code
- editor
- Andrew Connors
- additional editing
- Michael Vernon
- composer
- Justin Haynes
- sound design
- Gael MacLean
- re-recording mixer
- Gashtaseb Ariana
- music recording facilities
- Plughead Productions
- audio post facility
- Leo Sound
- post-production services
- Haeckel Hill Pictures
- production clerk
- Christine Sears
- production supervisor
- Kathryn Lynch
- program administrator
- Bruce Hagerman
- executive producer
- Rina Fraticelli