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You Don't Back Down

You Don't Back Down

| 27 min

This short documentary follows a young Canadian doctor serving in a local mission hospital in Nigeria. Stationed abroad under the Canadian University Service Overseas Plan, Dr. Alex McMahon and his schoolteacher wife encounter new challenges every day throughout their rewarding experience.


Credits
  • director
    Don Owen
  • producer
    Joseph Koenig
  • script
    Robin Spry
  • camera
    Gilles Gascon
  • sound
    Marcel Carrière

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