I'll find a way
Movie | |
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Original title | I'll find a way |
Country of production | Canada |
original language | English |
Publishing year | 1977 |
length | 26 minutes |
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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
- I'll Find a Way in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Information on I'll Find a Way in the Canadian Film Encyclopedia
- Video I'll Find a Way on the National Film Board of Canada website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Beverly Shaffer wgbhalumni.org, accessed January 22, 2013.
- ^ Thomas Waugh: I'll Find a Way . In: Cinema Canada. April-May 1978, pp. 36-37. Retrieved January 22, 2013.
- ^ Short Factual Film in 1979 awards.bafta.org, accessed January 22, 2013.