» Bill Cowell, Founder of The Buffalo Niagara
Film Festival is proud to announce a victorious
return for #2.
Bill pledges that this will be a spectacular 2nd year with large events and big
surprises to be talked about for years to come. Enjoyment to all, and to all
an enjoyable plight. See you soon.
Northland:
Long Journey -
Edie Steiner BUY
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NORTHLAND: LONG JOURNEY is
a meditation on the filmmaker's quest for new
truths regarding her father's death from occupational
illness thirty years prior. A generation later,
new scientific evidence amended the original
legal and medical judgments. Filmed in and
around a small mining community in Northwestern
Ontario, the process of making the film became
a forensic review and a legal challenge to
appeal the refusal of survivor benefits to
the filmmaker's widowed mother. Twenty years
after the death, new epidemiological studies
finally confirmed the relationship between
environmental toxins and the worker's death.
This is a film about family and environment,
nature and culture, and how truth is shaped
by phenomena over time.
