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Pacquette, Ken.
First Nations artists -- British Columbia -- Biography.
First Nations -- Family relationships -- British Columbia.
Chawathil First Nation -- British Columbia -- Hope.
Dysfunctional families -- British Columbia -- Hope.
First Nations communities -- British Columbia -- Case studies.
Chawathil First Nation -- British Columbia -- Social life and customs.
Hope (B.C.) -- Social conditions.
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Pacquette, Ken.
First Nations artists -- British Columbia -- Biography.
First Nations -- Family relationships -- British Columbia.
Chawathil First Nation -- British Columbia -- Hope.
Dysfunctional families -- British Columbia -- Hope.
First Nations communities -- British Columbia -- Case studies.
Chawathil First Nation -- British Columbia -- Social life and customs.
Hope (B.C.) -- Social conditions.
MARC Display
Hope
[videorecording (DVD)].
National Film Board of Canada, c2007.
Call #:
DVD 970.4111 H791
Subjects
Pacquette, Ken.
First Nations artists
--
British Columbia
--
Biography.
First Nations
--
Family relationships
--
British Columbia.
Chawathil First Nation
--
British Columbia
--
Hope
.
Dysfunctional families
--
British Columbia
--
Hope
.
First Nations communities
--
British Columbia
--
Case studies.
Chawathil First Nation
--
British Columbia
--
Social
life and customs.
Hope
(
B
.C.)
--
Social
conditions
.
Format:
[videorecording (DVD)].
Description:
1 videodisc (ca. 56 min.) : Dolby Surround digital sd., col. ; 12 cm.
Notes:
Public performance rights.
In English.
Closed-captioned.
Production:
National Film Board of Canada ; Producers, Svend-Erik Eriksen and Tracey Friesen ; Writers/Directors, Thomas Buchan and Stuart Reaugh.
Summary:
"
Hope
, from first time documentary filmmakers Stuart Reaugh and Thomas Buchan, follows artist Ken Paquette, his partner Winnie Peters and their five boys (ages four through fifteen) as they struggle to cope during a year of wrenching change. The family lives on the Schkam Native Reserve, across the river from the town of
Hope
. The town is a transitory place at the junction of three highways. After 18 years together, Ken and Winnie's troubled relationship dissolves when Rick, a tattooed ex-con, moves in and assumes the role of stepfather. Winnie's eldest son Kenny leaves the home. Ken settles in town, where he sells his paintings outside the local pub, earning enough for rent and the occasional trip to McDonalds with his kids. Over the course of four seasons, the family cycles through poverty, addiction, violence and love, but when winter bleeds into spring, a final confrontation sparks irrevocable change. With painterly attention to the ordinary details of life in an interior town - dark mountains shrouded in mist, rotting abandoned cars amidst the vaulted green spaces of the forest - the film captures two very different senses of time. The permanence of the land set against an explosive human drama that exists for fragile moments, before life and circumstances move on. The directors lived alongside the family over the course of a year, becoming an intimate part of events. This style of on-the-ground filmmaking provides a startling level of immediacy. The film imposes no external narrative; each family member offers a unique voice, describing their frustration and anger with each other, as well as their love and dreams for a better life. Raw honesty and a deep humanism explode stereotypes, capturing the joy and laughter, as well as the pain of this complex family, in a fully realized portrait of people and place."--NFB.
Genre:
Documentary films.
Films for the hearing impaired.
DVDs.
Other authors:
Reaugh, Stuart.
Buchan, Thomas.
National Film Board of Canada.
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Alderney Gate Public Library
Adult Nonfeature DVDs
DVD 970.4111 H791
Adult Dvds-7 Days
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