Flora: Scenes from a Leadership Convention

Flora: Scenes from a Leadership Convention

| 58 min

This feature documentary offers an incisive look at Canadian politics at the 1976 Progressive Conservative Party leadership convention. Cape Bretoner Flora MacDonald is campaigning for the Party’s leadership, the first woman to do so. We follow MacDonald behind the scenes as she works with her staff to prepare policy, speeches, and strategies to win the race. We also get a glimpse of MacDonald’s sprightly and upbeat attitude as she puts her best foot forward in front of voters, media, and the Party’s elite.

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Flora: Scenes from a Leadership Convention, Peter Raymont, provided by the National Film Board of Canada

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Credits
  • director
    Peter Raymont
  • script
    Peter Raymont
  • editing
    Peter Raymont
  • narrator
    Peter Raymont
  • producer
    Michael McKennirey
  • executive producer
    Arthur Hammond
    Roman Kroitor
  • photography
    Douglas Kiefer
    David De Volpi
  • sound
    Jacques Drouin
    Bev Davidson
  • sound editing
    Les Halman
  • re-recording
    Jean-Pierre Joutel

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