NFB Collection
The Last Winter
19891 h 45 minFilm: Fiction, Feature-length fiction
Direction: Aaron Kim Johnston
Production: Jack ClementsKen RodeckJoe MacDonaldChes Yetman
Script: Aaron Kim Johnston
Co-produced by Last Winter Corporation and the NFB with the financial assistance of Telefilm Canada and the Canada-Manitoba Cultural Industries Development Office.
Winter runs across the fields of southern Manitoba, trailing a mane of white. Grampa Jack's horse hasn't been seen for fifty years. But, in the last season on the family farm, Winter comes back to teach Jack's grandson about the beauty of life and the necessity of death. A touching tale about the dwindly away of youth. The Last Winter tells a story of childhood that will appeal to all.(Award: Laon.)
Subject categories
- Families > Children
- Children and Youth > Coming of Age Stories
Credits
- director
- Aaron Kim Johnston
- script
- Aaron Kim Johnston
- producer
- Jack Clements
- Ken Rodeck
- Joe MacDonald
- Ches Yetman
- cinematography
- Ian Elkin
- line production
- Charles Zamaria
- sound
- John Thomson
- editing
- Lara Mazur
- sound editing
- Ken Rodeck
- music
- Victor Davies
- cast
- Joel Blake
- Lonnie Brown
- Wanda Cannon
- David Ferry
- Jillian McMillan
- Marsha Moreau
- Nathaniel Moreau
- Joshua Murray
- Katie Murray
- Gerard Parkes