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First Stories - Life Givers: Honouring Our Elders and Children

Janine Windolph

2007 5 min

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"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.

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"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

Indigenous Cinema

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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