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White Thunder
200250 min 12 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Victoria King
Production: Annette ClarkeKent MartinSally Bochner
Produced by Factory Lane Productions Inc. and the National Film Board of Canada in association with History Television, with the participation of the Canadian Television Fund created by the Government of Canada and the Canadian cable industry - CTF: License Fee Program, the Newfoundland and Labrador Film Development Corporation, Roger's Documentary Fund and with the assistance of The Canadian Film and Video Production Tax and The Newfoundland and Labrador Film and Video Industry Tax Credit.
Why would a dashing New York filmmaker find himself in the wilds of Newfoundland in the 1920s? Far from the privilege of Manhattan's Upper East Side, Varick Frissell was lured by the treacherous beauty of the North. With backing from Hollywood's Paramount Pictures, he set out to make the early sound feature The Viking, an astonishing record of Newfoundland's perilous seal hunt. White Thunder tells the remarkable tale, bringing us back to the undulating icy seas where Frissell would meet his tragic fate.
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Subject categories
- Film and Video Arts > Film and Video MakingHistorical PerspectivesPortraits
- Fishing and Hunting Industries > Fur Industries and TrappingHuntingNewfoundlandSeal and Walrus Hunt
- Technology Education > Communications and Technology
- History and Citizenship Education > Culture and Currents of Thought (1500-present)
- Media Education > Documentary FilmFilm and Video Production
- Indigenous Studies > Issues and Contemporary Challenges
Credits
- director
- Victoria King
- producer
- Annette Clarke
- Kent Martin
- cinematographer
- Nigel Markham
- editor
- Terre Nash
- sound recordist
- Justine Pimlott
- Harvey Hyslop
- narration writer
- Terre Nash
- Victoria King
- narrator
- Michael Jones
- reading
- Sebastian Spence
- additional photography
- Alexander Reid
- camera assistant
- Keith Burgess
- Dominique Gusset
- Trevor Forrest
- additional sound
- Sam Mendelson
- production manager
- Annette Clarke
- Linda Fitzpatrick
- music design
- Jeff Johnston
- original composition
- Jeff Johnston
- musician
- Paul Bendzsa
- Valerie Holden
- Jeff Johnston
- music producer
- Glen Tilley
- recording engineer
- Terry Winsor
- sound editor
- Harvey Hyslop
- mixer
- Paul Steffler
- assistant editor
- Dorian Rowe
- online editor
- Steve Cook
- researcher
- Jennifer Budden
- Caroline Frick
- Harvey Hyslop
- Claire MacKinnon
- Louise Moyes
- Derek Norman
- Dorian Rowe
- administrator
- John William Lutz
- executive producer
- Sally Bochner
- production accounting
- Cathy Corbett
- associate producer
- Janice Tufford
- Sydney Suissa
Awards
- Rex Tasker Award for Best Atlantic Documentary - with a cash prize of 1,500$Atlantic International Film Festival
- Honorable Mention - Category: The Humanities International Film and Video Festival