NFB Collection
"We're the Boss!"
199029 min 24 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Brian Pollard
Production: Brian PollardMichel LemieuxRex TaskerGermaine Ying Gee Wong
Script: David Weale
Co-produced by the NFB, English Program, Atlantic Centre and French Program, Acadie, in association with the Prince Edward Island Department of Industry and the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency.
"We're the Boss!" is an inspiring film about a community that made the connection between culture and economic development. It is a look at the Evangeline region, a predominantly Acadian area in western Prince Edward Island where local initiative, several co-operatives and a credit union have transformed the economy and thereby strengthened Acadian culture. Some of the community-based enterprises shown are a potato chip factory, a fish-processing plant, a wood-chip operation, a funeral home, a cable TV station. Looking both to the past and to the future, the film includes interviews with pioneers of about the role of co-ops in their community.
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Subject categories
- Francophone Communities > AcadiaPrince Edward Island
- Industry and Commerce > Atlantic RegionCooperatives
- Economics > Canadian Community and Regional Development
Credits
- director
- Brian Pollard
- editing
- Brian Pollard
- producer
- Brian Pollard
- Michel Lemieux
- Rex Tasker
- executive producer
- Germaine Ying Gee Wong
- script
- David Weale
- narrator
- David Weale
- camera
- Mike Mahoney
- sound
- Alex Salter
- sound editing
- Alex Salter