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First Stories - Life Givers: Honouring Our Elders and Children

2007 5 min
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"Some say when a child dies, you lose your future, and when an elder dies, you lose your past." Life Givers: Honouring Our Elders and Children is a poignant short film that testifies to the need to grieve and honour the memory of loved ones.

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"Some say when a child dies, you lose your future, and when an elder dies, you lose your past." Life Givers: Honouring Our Elders and Children is a poignant short film that testifies to the need to grieve and honour the memory of loved ones.

  • writer
    Janine Windolph
  • director
    Janine Windolph
  • cinematographer
    Claude Savard
  • picture editor
    Chris Bailey
  • original music
    Todd Bryanton
  • still photographer
    Calvin Fehr
  • sound recordist
    Lucas Hart
  • production assistant
    Annie Charles
  • makeup artist
    Kaitlyn Rae McMillan
  • elder
    Roy Crazyhorse Bison
  • marketing manager
    Leslie Stafford
  • production supervisor
    Scott Collins
  • program administrator
    Cyndi Forcand
  • production coordinator
    Monique Perron
    Rolande Petit
  • online editor
    Trevor Bennett
  • associate producer
    Stephanie Scott
  • producer
    Joe MacDonald
  • executive producer
    Derek Mazur

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