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WordLove WorldLove
200846 min 26 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Tony PapaDonna Williams
Production: Tony PapaDonna Williams
Script: Andrew GardnerDonna Williams
Produced by Avanti Pictures Corporation with the support of the Government of Canada through the Canadian Internation Development Agency (CIDA), in association with TVOntario, Channel M, the British Columbia Arts Council and the Newfoundland Broadcasting Company.
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This is a story about the strength of humanity and compassion... the compassion of a class of Grade 4 children from Vancouver, finding a way to reach out across the sea to connect with the children of Kalmunai in eastern Sri Lanka, children whose lives were torn apart by the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami. What the Vancouver kids have to offer is their words. Not money or material things ... just heartfelt words that offer encouragement and inspiration... a verbal hand, held out in love, to children on the other side of our world - total strangers in desperate need. In our often-cynical world, this uplifting story offers even the most jaded world watcher a sense of hope for the future.
Subject categories
- Developing Countries > Asia - Southeast AsiaForeign AidSocial ProblemsYouth
- Children and Youth > Canadian YouthSocial ActionYouthful Perspectives
Credits
- director
- Tony Papa
- producer
- Tony Papa
- co-producer
- Donna Williams
- creator
- Donna Williams
- cinematographer
- Rolf Cutts
- editor
- Tony Papa
- Eliot Piltz
- Aren Hansen
- writer
- Andrew Gardner
- Donna Williams
- composer
- Adham Shaikh
- sound recordist
- Stephane Bourgeault
- sound designer
- Gashtaseb Ariana
- production designer
- Donna Williams
- digital compositor
- Torrance Hurd
- colourist
- Lorne Wright
- art therapist
- Erica Krutzen
- production coordinator
- Michelle Hignell
- production assistant
- Patrick King
- Rita Yee
- Melissa Flagg
- additional camera
- Greg Stirling
- Robert Heimbecker
- Greg Meeres
- Erez T. Yanuv Barzilay
- Karmal Derkaoui
- technical support
- Greg Stirling
- Robert Heimbecker
- Greg Meeres
- Erez T. Yanuv Barzilay
- Karmal Derkaoui
- voice-over
- Gail Belcher
- Kumu Navaratnam
- Narmatha Richard
- Antony Richard
- Darshana Yogasara
- Shayandhanaa Yogasara
- Deepana Yogasara
- bookkeeper
- Lynn Crouch
- accounting
- Worlige Mahon
- post-production manager
- Philip Webb
- insurance
- Jones Brown and Associates Ltd.
- sound mix
- Leo Sound