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Notes for a Film About Donna & Gail

Notes for a Film About Donna & Gail

| 48 min

Don Owen’s groundbreaking short drama tells the story of two young women who go to the city to work in a dress factory, and who share a room to ease their expenses and their loneliness. The film shows the currents that brought them together and the facets of their natures that first made them seem compatible but eventually drove them apart. Their story reflects, to a degree, the situation of anyone who has ever shared the life of another.


Credits
  • cast
    Michèle Chicoine
    Jackie Burroughs
    Ray Bellow
    Evelyn Gordon
    Gino Marrocco
    Derek May
    Aino Pirskanen
    John Sullivan
  • director
    Don Owen
  • producer
    Julian Biggs
  • camera
    Jean-Claude Labrecque
  • editing
    Barrie Howells
  • writer
    Gerald Taaffe
    Don Owen
  • assistant director
    Tanya Ballantyne
  • sound recording
    André Hourlier
    Roger Hart
  • sound editing
    John Knight
  • music editing
    Malca Gillson
  • re-recording
    Ron Alexander
    Roger Lamoureux

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