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Rice Harvest
198011 min 40 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Norma BaileyBob Lower
Production: Jerry KrepakevichMichael Scott
Script: Sheila Baptie
Each fall, for generations, the families of the Pauingassi band have camped by northern Manitoba lakes, and combed the reedy shores with brooms, paddles and baskets for manomin--wild rice. The trade with the bush pilot begins the process by which a staple for Indigenous peples and sacred crop becomes a white man's luxury food. A quiet but haunting film.
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Subject categories
- Indigenous Peoples in Canada (First Nations and Métis) > AgriculturePrairies
- Agriculture > Crops - Cultivation and HarvestingPrairies - Crops and Livestock
- Food and Food Industries > Cultural PerspectivesGrains
Credits
- director
- Norma Bailey
- Bob Lower
- producer
- Jerry Krepakevich
- executive producer
- Michael Scott
- script
- Sheila Baptie
- cinematography
- Richard A. Stringer
- sound
- Bob Lower
- editing
- Norma Bailey
- sound editing
- Ken Rodeck
- re-recording
- Clive Perry
- narrator
- Brian Richardson