I'll find a way

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Movie
Original title I'll find a way
Country of production Canada
original language English
Publishing year 1977
length 26 minutes
Rod
Director Beverly Shaffer
production Yuki Yoshida
music Larry Crosley
camera Hideaki Kobayashi
cut Ginny Stikeman

I'll Find a Way is a Canadian documentary - short film of director Beverly Shaffer from the year 1977 . He was awarded an Oscar .

action

The film is about the nine-year-old Nadia DeFranco, who suffers from spina bifida and can only move on crutches. He accompanies her for a week and shows how she copes with everyday life at school and in the family.

background

The film is part of the Direct Cinema documentary series Children of Canada , produced by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) , the episodes of which portray Canadian children in various circumstances. It was shot in color on 16mm . The location was Toronto . It premiered on December 6, 1999 at the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival .

In 1999 Beverly Shaffer produced the sequel Just a Wedding , in which Nadia DeFranco marries a man she met over the Internet. In contrast to I'll Find a Way , there are also recreated scenes.

reception

Thomas Waugh, Professor of Film Studies at Concordia University , discussed I'll Find a Way at Cinema Canada in 1978 . First of all, he criticized the “hype” that the NFB's publicity department made about the leading actress after the Oscar ceremony, and secondly AMPAS’s long-standing ignoring of good documentaries from its studio . However, he judges, "the Oscar couldn't have happened to a nicer film" (German: The Oscar could not have happened to a nicer film . ) And praises the restraint and intelligence of the film and Shaffer, who avoids sentimentalism despite the emotional topic . He particularly emphasizes Nadia DeFranco's achievement, from whose perspective the story of the film is told with self-confidence and without self-pity. He compares I'll Find a Way with the Oscar-winning short documentary film Thursday's Children .

Awards (selection)

  • 1978 : Oscar in the Best Short Film category
  • 1979: Nomination for BAFTA Award in the Best Short Factual Film category
  • 1979: Best Documentary Film , Tampere International Short Film Festival
  • 1978: Award of Excellence , The Film Advisory Board Incorporated
  • 1978: Best Film About Children , Childfilm Festival of the Canadian Association for Young Children, Winnipeg
  • 1979: AMER Silver Eye Award , Personal Courage category , Dubuque
  • 1980: RAI Award , 10th International Cinema Festival for Children and Young People, Salerno

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Beverly Shaffer wgbhalumni.org, accessed January 22, 2013.
  2. ^ Thomas Waugh: I'll Find a Way . In: Cinema Canada. April-May 1978, pp. 36-37. Retrieved January 22, 2013.
  3. ^ Short Factual Film in 1979 awards.bafta.org, accessed January 22, 2013.