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Between the Stones and the Ocean : A Portrait of Rudy Wiebe

Item number (ISN):

388283

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

2006

Item number (ISN):

388283

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

REEL GIRLS MEDIA INC.

Accession:

2006-0142

Media:

Video

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

2006

Production company:

Reel Girls Media Inc.

Production credit:

director/script, Scot Morison; producer, Ava Karvonen; Lisa Byrne; editing, Roley Wight; sound, Downy Karvonen; Jerry Krepakevich; music, Becker; narrator, Lorne Cardinal

Country of production:

cn

Description:

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This television documentary chronicles the life and career of Rudy Wiebe, one of Canada's most acclaimed writers. Wiebe was born outside of Edmonton in the Speedwell area of Saskatchewan in 1934. Renowned for giving a literary voice to Canada's aboriginals, Wiebe was a two-time winner of the Governor General's Award for English-Language Fiction (for "The Temptations of Big Bear" in 1973, and "A Discovery of Strangers" in 1994). He has been compared to Hemingway, Faulkner and Balzac for nimbly juxtaposing detailed historical fact with a thrilling fictional narrative. His novels, short stories, non-fiction books and groundbreaking epics are provocative and passionate, fascinating and wild stories that encompass the sprawling history and geography of Western Canada and, also, his Mennonite heritage. In the autumn of 2005, a Reel Girls Media film crew followed Wiebe around the provinces of Saskatchewan and Alberta as he reflected on his experiences in the Canadian Prairies, a landscape which has informed his destiny as a writer and which produced the profound stories for which he is celebrated. Wiebe candidly speaks about the death of his beloved sister when she was only seventeen, an event that later inspired his first published fiction; about his adolescence in Coaldale, a town with a tiny library which Wiebe used to visit on a regular basis; about Frederick M. Salter, Wiebe's professor from the University of Alberta who challenged him to write about Mennonites in Canada; about the heart-wrenching suicide of his young son; the Frog Lake massacre that was Big Bear's undoing; and his controversial collaboration with Big Bear's great-great granddaughter, Yvonne Johnson, a convicted murderer with whom Wiebe co-wrote the autobiography "Stolen Life : The Journey of a Cree Woman". Wiebe's other works include: "Peace Shall Destroy Many", a novel about Mennonites in Canada that launched his career writing historical literature about misunderstood people; "The Temptations of Big Bear", a novel about a famous Cree chief caught up in the Northwest Rebellion; "The Scorched Wood People", a revisionist portrait of Metis leader Louis Riel; and "A Discovery of Strangers", a novel about contact between the Dene people and the first Arctic expedition of explorer Sir John Franklin. Today, at the age of 71, Rudy Wiebe, one of the first non-aboriginal authors convinced that the experiences of Canada's natives were stories crucial to our collective memory, is still remarkably vital and prolific. Some of the people commenting on the life and career of Rudy Wiebe in this documentary include writers Aritha van Herk and Robert Kroetsch who champion Wiebe's idiosyncratic style and an Aboriginal filmmaker Gil Cardinal who recognizes Wiebe as an honourable custodian of history. <47mn 50s>

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. Produced in association with CHUM Television, a division of CHUM Limited; Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN); and SCN.~2. Produced with the financial participation of the Alberta Film Development Program of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts; Government of Canada - The Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit Program; and Rogers Telefund.~3. Produced with the participation of the Canadian Television Fund created by the Government of Canada (Telefilm Canada: Equity Investment Program) and the Canadian cable industry (CTF: Licence Fee Program).

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

459107

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V7 2008-10-0083

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SOF

Duration:

47:50

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

459108

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V8 2008-10-0023

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SOF

Duration:

47:50

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

806583

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

388283.MXF

Number of items:

1

Made from:

V7 2008-10-0083

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

806584

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

388283.MP4

Number of items:

1

Made from:

V7 2008-10-0083

Status:

REF
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Conditions of access:

Open

Restrictions on consultation:

~No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

Copyright status:

Under copyright.

Copyright owner:

Copyright owner: Reel Girls Media Inc., 2006.

Reproduction access:

With written permissions / Avec les permissions écrites

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