The Fairy Faith

20001 h 17 min 2 secFilm

Réalisation: John Walker

Production: John Walker (John Walker Productions Ltd.)Kent Martin (National Film Board of Canada)Sally Bochner

Scénarisation: John Walker

Produced by John Walker Productions Ltd. in co-production with the National Film Board of Canada in association with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and with the participation of the Canadian Television Fund, created by the Government of Canada and the Canadian Cable Industry, Telefilm Canada - Equity Investment Program, CTF: Licence Fee Program and with the assistance participation of Canadian Film or Video Tax Credit and the Rogers Documentary Fund.

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 sacred sites in 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.

Magnificently photographed and set to a score of otherworldly music, The Fairy Faith spirits us away into another dimension.

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Catégories de sujets


  • Pays étrangers > EuropeGrande-Bretagne
  • Langue et Littérature > Contes, Mythes et Légendes
  • Religion et Philosophie > Croyances et Mythologie

Générique


participation
Alex Goldie
Ai Yamamoto
Eve Maureen Gregory
Dylan Dammermann
Ben Carter-Whitney
Simone Sinclair Walker
Peter Aziz
Mark Fox
Elizabeth Jane Baldry
Brian Froud
Dolina Wallace
Gregor Hutcheson
Mervyn Browne
Eddie Lenihan
Kathleen Boyle
Hugh Boyle
Neil Boyle
Con Boyle
Hugh Martin Boyle
Seamus MacGabhann
An Raithe
Falcarnagh
Robert Bryce
John Kelly
James Clarity
Cormac MacConnell
Tom Carey
John MacInnes
Sinead MacInnes
Stephen Oldale
Patrick Marshall
Norman Morris
Eli Charles Johnson
Bryan Thomas Johnson
Murdena Marshall
Roderick Bernard
Mary Rose Julian
April R. Julian
écriture
John Walker
réalisateur
John Walker
producteur
John Walker
Kent Martin
monteur
Angela Baker
prise de vues
Nigel Markham
John Walker
preneur de son
Alex Salter
musique
Scott MacMillan
Glen Coolen
Mark Currie
Ian MacMillan
John Spearns
Elizabeth Jane Baldry
chanson
Mary Jane Lamond
gérant de production
Deborah Parks
photographie additionnelle
Jim Aquila
Robert Zimmerman
prise de son additionnelle
Ross Redfern
assistant au montage image
Jason McLeod
John Rosborough
recherche
Elizabeth Klinck
Nisha Pahuja
recherche additionnelle
Gillian Marsh
Tanya Gillian
Barbara Rieti
consultant en recherche
Margaret Bennett
comptable de production
Michael Foy
montage son
Alex Salter
mixeur du repiquage
Lou Solakofski
Dave Nighswander
producteur exécutif
Sally Bochner
superviseur de production
Patricia Coughran
administrateur de programme
John William Lutz
adjoint administratif
Stephanie Coolen
Vanessa Larsen