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First Stories - Life Givers: Honouring Our Elders and Children

First Stories - Life Givers: Honouring Our Elders and Children

| 5 min

"Some say when a child dies, you lose your future, and when an elder dies, you lose your past." Life Givers: Honouring Our Elders and Children is a poignant short film that testifies to the need to grieve and honour the memory of loved ones.

See also
Families
Religion, Beliefs and Ethics
Indigenous Peoples in Canada (First Nations and Métis)
All subjects
Credits
  • writer
    Janine Windolph
  • director
    Janine Windolph
  • cinematographer
    Claude Savard
  • picture editor
    Chris Bailey
  • original music
    Todd Bryanton
  • still photographer
    Calvin Fehr
  • sound recordist
    Lucas Hart
  • production assistant
    Annie Charles
  • makeup artist
    Kaitlyn Rae McMillan
  • elder
    Roy Crazyhorse Bison
  • marketing manager
    Leslie Stafford
  • production supervisor
    Scott Collins
  • program administrator
    Cyndi Forcand
  • production coordinator
    Monique Perron
    Rolande Petit
  • online editor
    Trevor Bennett
  • associate producer
    Stephanie Scott
  • producer
    Joe MacDonald
  • executive producer
    Derek Mazur

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