Description
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
Awards
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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