This film started
out as a community project involving my students at Sheridan College.
On one level, it documents a remarkable reunion of people from
as far away as Australia and New Zealand who converge on a small
town in rural Ontario, where 2,436 Allied pilots received their
training during World War II. A subtext emerges in the dialectic
between our own newsreel footage of the event in 1979, and home
movies shot by the veterans, including reunions at the base before
it became a giant turkey farm. This allows for some revealing
interruptions of conventional documentary codification, and serves
as a reminder of the complex nature of film, time, and memory.
(RH)
"Working
with material from several sources posed special problems ...
but Hancox has met the challenge with skill and imagination. The
result is an interesting film in which both the filmmaker and
the veterans can take justifiable pride." Hamilton Spectator
"... certainly
animated characters. Footage... from a 1956 reunion is first-rate,
sidesplitting slapstick. This soars above a home movie and does
a three-point landing." Ontario Film Association Newsletter
Awards:
Golden Sheaf Nomination, Yorkton Film Festival
Available
from:
Canadian
Filmmakers' Distribution Centre
37 Hanna Ave. #220
Toronto, Ontario Canada M6K 1W8
telephone: 416-588-0725, e-mail: bookings@cfmdc.org
web: www.cfmdc.org
(printable
version of description)
Reviews,
Articles, Text & Notes:
Reunion
in Dunnville voice-over script
Sheridan
Teacher Rick Hancox Films Moving Veteran Reunion,
by Leslie Kross, The Sheridan Sun, January 21, 1982
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