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Waging Peace: A Year in the Life of Caledonia Junior High (Educational Version)
20011 h 11 min 39 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Teresa MacInnes
Production: Peter d'EntremontKent MartinSally Bochner
Script: Teresa MacInnes
Co-produced by Triad Film Productions Limited and the NFB in association with CTV Television and Vision TV, with the participation of Nova Scotia Film Development Corporation, Star Choice Communication Inc., the Canadian Independent Film & Video Fund and the Fundy Communications Production Fund, and with the assistance of Nova Scotia Film Industry Tax Credit.
At Caledonia Junior High--like at so many schools--students and teachers live in an environment of disrespect and potential danger. Enter Edy Guy-François, Caledonia's fifth principal in four years.
At first, Edy despairs. Then, drawing on her own experience as a kid headed for trouble, she resolves to save the school. Tough and uncompromising, Edy tempers her discipline with compassion. She comes down hard on kids who break the rules but also encourages a new peer mediation program, institutes monthly dances and celebrates with a wild winter carnival.The results are tangible and nearly immediate. And then budget cuts threaten the gains.
Waging Peace looks beyond the sensational headlines on school violence to offer real solutions. The film shows the hard work that goes into turning a troubled school around. It lets us know how students really see school and demonstrates the positive effects of trusting teens and giving them some responsibility.
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Subject categories
- Children and Youth > Adolescent Social BehaviourDiscrimination and StereotypingPeer RelationshipsViolence and Child Abuse
- Social Issues > ChildrenDiscrimination and StereotypingViolence
- Education > Secondary EducationSocial Problems
Credits
- director
- Teresa MacInnes
- writer
- Teresa MacInnes
- producer
- Peter d'Entremont
- Kent Martin
- director of photography
- Kent Nason
- editor
- Peter Giffen
- executive producer
- Peter d'Entremont
- Sally Bochner
- narrator
- Tara Doyle
- location sound
- Arthur McKay
- music composer
- Steven Naylor
- developer
- Andrew Safer
- Teresa MacInnes
- consultant
- Barry Cowling
- researcher
- Catherine Safer
- Sonya Jampolsky
- assistant picture editor
- John Feron
- additional location sound
- Alex Salter
- Jane Porter
- transcripts
- Marsha Parker
- offline facility
- Ocean Digital Post Production Ltd.
- on-line picture
- Salter Street Digital
- audio post-production
- Salter Street Digital
- re-recording mixer
- Allan Scarth
- dialogue editor
- Amy Miller
- ADR recordist
- Amy Miller
- foley artist
- Krista Wells
- sound design
- Lil Thomas
- foley recordist
- Luc Léger
- post sound supervisor
- Rob Power
- unit administrator
- Susanne Lively
- Victoria MacGregor
- production assistant
- Hannah Cocks
- production secretary
- Marie Andrews
- program administrator
- John William Lutz
- Deanne Foley
- production supervisor
- Patricia Coughran
- music clearances
- Norma Bayliss-Jones