Reading Alistair MacLeod

20051 h 28 min 52 secFilm: Documentary

Direction: William D. MacGillivray

Production: Terry GreenlawKent Martin

Produced by Picture Plant in co-production with the National Film Board of Canada with the participation of the Canadian Television Fund, in association with IFC: The Independent Film Channel, with the assistance of the Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit, the Nova Scotia Film Industry Tax Credit, and in association with the CBC Atlantic Region and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

Alistair MacLeod has been hailed internationally as a master of the short story, and his novel No Great Mischeif was celebrated around the world. Most of his work is firmly based in Cape Breton even if its people stray elsewhere. They depict men and women living out their lives against the haunting landscape that surround them. Focusing on the complexities and abiding mysteries at the heart of human relationships, MacLeod maps the close bonds and impassable chasms that lie between man and woman, parent and child, and invokes memory and myth to celebrate the continuity of the generations, even in the midst of unremitting change. This film portrait will explore the life and work of this giant of literature.

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  • Literature and Language - Canada > Canadian LiteratureEnglish-language WritersPortraits
  • Literature and Language > Portraits

Credits


participant
Alistair MacLeod
Douglas Gibson
Lisa Moore
Anita MacLeod
Marion MacLeod
Alexander MacLeod
Jake MacDonald
Russell Banks
David Adams Richards
Margaret Atwood
Wayne Johnston
Christopher Donison
Colm Toibin
director
William D. MacGillivray
producer
Terry Greenlaw
Kent Martin
cinematographer
Kent Nason
editor
Christopher Cooper
sound design
Alex Salter
location recording
Alex Salter
original music composer
Christopher Donison
researcher
Susan Newhook
production manager
Jan Nathanson
camera assistant
Kevin MacNeil
grip
Kevin MacNeil
gaffer
Kevin MacNeil
sound editor
Alex Salter
music editor
Hayward Parrott
re-recording
The Sandbox
Tattersall Sound & Picture
re-recording mixer
Lou Solakofski
Hayward Parrott
high definition on-line
PowerPost Productions
online editor
Doug Woods
colourist
Doug Woods
assistant on-line editor
Luckas Cardona
assistant picture editor
Dennis Bradley
transportation
Al Morris
picture vehicle coordinator
Bob Meade
production accountant
Jan Anthony
recording engineer
Brian Richards
concert recording
David Rankin
musician
Gianetta Baril
Diane Lane
Steve Lubiarz
Daniel Carlson
Linling Hsu
Heather Haydu
Jean Landa
John Feldberg
Leah Stephenson
Jocelyn Colquhoun
Stan Climie
Arthur Bachmann
John Richards
Graeme Mudd
Andrea Case
Emma Samuelsson
Marit Sjodin
David Quackenbush
Allene Hackleman
Olivia Brayley
Peter Dundjerski
Luba Benediktovitch
Sarah Hagen
Nola Shantz
opera singer
Nan Hughes
Catherine Lewis
Bryce Kulak
Birgitte Mortenson
Iren Bartok
Paul Boughen
Duncan MacLeod
Benjamin Lylloff
music clearances
Elizabeth Klinck
centre administrator
John William Lutz
production supervisor
Patricia Coughran
marketing manager
Philip Moscovitch