Finding Farley

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Finding Farley
Directed by Leanne Allison
Written by
  • Leanne Allison
  • Karsten Heuer
Produced by
  • Tracey Friesen
  • Catrina Longmuir
Starring
CinematographyLeanne Allison
Edited byJanice Brown
Music byDennis Burke
Production
company
Release date
  • 13 October 2009 (2009-10-13)(VIFF)
Running time
62 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

Finding Farley is a 2009 documentary directed by Leanne Allison as she and her husband Karsten Heuer travel across Canada in the literary footsteps of the Canadian writer Farley Mowat.

Heuer, a biologist and author, had written a book on his experiences making the documentary Being Caribou , in which he and Allison traveled 1,500 kilometres (930 mi) by foot across Arctic tundra following a herd of 120,000 Porcupine caribou. After reading a draft of Heuer's account, Mowat invited them to visit him at his summer farm in Cape Breton Island. [1]

Accompanied by their two-year-old son Zev and dog Willow, the couple left their home in Canmore in May 2007 for a 5,000 kilometres (3,100 mi), six-month trek east across Canada. From Canmore, 100 kilometres west of Calgary, they canoed to Hudson Bay, visiting many of the settings that Mowat wrote about in Never Cry Wolf , Lost in the Barrens and People of the Deer . From Hudson Bay, their plan was to travel by sea to northern Labrador, the setting of Mowat's stories such as The Serpent's Coil, Grey Seas Under , Sea of Slaughter and A Whale for the Killing. From Newfoundland and Labrador they planned a final journey by water, arriving at Cape Breton near the end of October. [1] Finding Farley was the top film at the 2010 Banff Mountain Film Festival, receiving both the Grand Prize and People's Choice awards. [2]

References

  1. 1 2 "Finding Farley - crossing Canada by canoe". Calgary Herald . 9 May 2007. Archived from the original on 9 November 2012. Retrieved 24 August 2010.
  2. ↑ Oke, Chris (7 April 2010). "Banff film fest coming to Whitehorse". Yukon News . Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 24 August 2010.
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