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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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Subject categories
- 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