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The Hutterites
196427 min 56 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Colin Low
Production: Tom DalyRoman Kroitor
Script: Stanley Jackson
The followers of Jacob Hutter live in farm communities, devoutly holding to the rules their founder laid down. Through the kindness of a Hutterite colony in Alberta, this film, in black and white, was made inside the community and shows all aspects of the Hutterites' daily life.
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Subject categories
- Religion, Beliefs and Ethics > ChristianityMulticulturalism
- Families > Family LifeRural Families
- Cultural Diversity and Multiculturalism > Immigration in Western CanadaPrairiesReligious Communities
- Agriculture > PrairiesRural Life
- Social Studies > Communities in Canada/World
- Family Studies/Home Economics > Feminism
- Ethics and Religious Culture > Religious Diversity/Heritage
Credits
- director
- Colin Low
- producer
- Tom Daly
- Roman Kroitor
- commentary
- Stanley Jackson
- photography
- John Spotton
- editing
- John Spotton
- sound
- Leo O'Donnell
- George Croll
- sound editing
- Jean-Pierre Joutel
Awards
- Special Award for Black and White Cinematography given to John SpottonGenie Awards
- Chris Certificate Award - Category: Religion International Film and Video Festival
- First Prize (jointly with Springboard to the Sun) - Category: ShortsFestival of Canadian Films - Montreal International Film Festival
- First Prize - Category: Human RelationsYorkton Film Festival
- Blue Ribbon Award - Category: Doctrinal and Denominational TopicsItinerant - American Film and Video Festival
- Second PrizeFestival dei Popoli / International Film Festival on Social Documentary
- Honourable MentionInternational Film Festival
- Landers Associates Award of MeritAnnual Landers Associates Awards
- Best Black and White Cinematograpahy to John Spotton, cscCanadian Cinematography Awards