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Finding Farley

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When Karsten Heuer and Leanne Allison (Being Caribou), along with their two-year old son Zev and indomitable dog Willow, set out to retrace the literary footsteps of Farley Mowat they meant it literally. Their 5000KM trip –trekking, sailing, portaging and paddling from the Prairies to the Maritimes – is captured in the documentary Finding Farley.

They paddle east from Calgary, towards the prairies (the geography of Born Naked and Owls in the Family) and then traverse the same paths that Farley took more than 60 years earlier, which became the foundation for Never Cry Wolf, and People of the Deer. The travelers also get an earful about the long-standing controversy that attends Farley’s work.

When the family reaches their final destination, Mowat's Nova Scotian summer home, it is, as Karsten says, “An affirmation of what the land and animals had already told us…Stories aren’t so much written or created as they are released, expressing what’s been there all along.”



2009, 62 min 49 s

  • Directed by
    Leanne Allison
  • Produced by
    Tracey Friesen
  • Production Agency
    National Film Board of Canada
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Available Light Film Festival
Yukon Arts Centre
Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada

  • February 10 2010
    at 03:30 PM
  • February 13 2010
    at 11:00 AM

Powell River Film Festival
Evergreen Theatre
Powell River, British Columbia, Canada

  • February 19 2010
    at 12:30 PM

FLIKS
Capitol Theatre
421 Victoria Street
Nelson, British Columbia, Canada

  • March 3 2010
    at 07:00 PM

NFB Mediatheque
150 John Street
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

  • March 3 2010
    at 07:00 PM
  • March 15 2010
    at 12:30 PM
  • March 16 2010
    at 12:30 PM
  • March 17 2010
    at 12:30 PM
  • March 18 2010
    at 12:30 PM

Metro Cinema - Zeidler Hall, Citadel Theatre
9828 101 A Avenue
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

  • March 10 2010
    at 07:00 PM
Plaza Theatre
1133 Kensington Road NW
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
  • March 11 2010
    at 07:00 PM

Calgary Public Library - John Dutton theatre
2nd floor, WR Castell Library, 616 Macleod Trail SE
Calgary, Alberta, Canada

  • May 15 2010
    at 02:00 PM

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Grand Prize
Banff Mountain Film Festival
October 31 to November 8 2009, Banff - Canada

People's Choice Prize
Banff Mountain Film Festival
October 31 to November 8 2009, Banff - Canada

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Date Modified : 2010-01-26
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