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| Title: | FAIRY FAITH, THE |
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| Title year: | 1999 |
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| Original dialogue(s): | English |
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| Running time: | 75 min sec |
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| Copyright: | 2000 John Walker Productions Ltd. |
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| Description: | A fairy couple tries to steal a man's shadow. Another takes a man's wife. And yet another, claims a retired police chief, braided a horse's mane! "The little people." You can shrug them off as superstition, but what explains their perennial appeal? As a boy, filmmaker John Walker learned the difference between a fairy tale and the fairy faith from his grandmother, who told him that if your heart is open, the fairies and their fabled world can be seen in the landscape. In search of this ancient belief, Walker travels to the moors of England, the Highlands of Scotland and the sacred sites of Ireland and Cape Breton. He meets a storyteller who saves an ancient fairy thorn bush from town developers, a painter who conjures up their magical features, and a Mi'kmaq elder who gives advice on how to understand the mysterious lot. |
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| Director(s): | John Walker | |
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| Screen writer(s): | John Walker | |
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| Producer(s): | Kent Martin | |
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| John Walker | |
| Executive producers(s): | Sally Bochner | |
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| Editor(s): | Angela Baker | |
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| Musician(s): | Scott MacMillan | |
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| Narrator(s): | John Walker | |
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| Photography: | Nigel Markham | |
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| John Walker | |
| Support: | S16mm Col (35mm) Blow up at Covitec |
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| Festival(s): | Halifax (Atlantic Film Festival) | September 19, 2000 |
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| Toronto Hot Docs (opening night) | May 01, 2001 |
| Release: | TV CBC | February 10, 2000 |
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| Saint John's (NL) | March 16, 2001 |
| Location(s): | Devon |
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| Birmingham |
| Scotland (Isle of Skye) |
| Ireland |
| Toronto (ON) |
| Cape Breton (NS) |
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| Laboratory: | The Lab in Toronto Inc. |
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