Evelyn

Catalogue Number: MICL02
Producer: Millefiore Clarkes
Producers: Weale, David
Directors: Clarkes, Millefiore and Weale, Davy
Producing Agencies: PEI Arts Fund
Subject: Canadian Social Issues, Citizenship Education, Consumer Studies, Documentary, Environmental Studies, Health and Medicine, Psychology, Science, Social Issues, Social Sciences, Women's Studies
Language: English
Grade Level: 9 - 12, Post Secondary, Adult
Country Of Origin: Canada
Copyright Year: 2022
Running Time: 15:28
EVELYN enters the world of the wise and wry human that is Evelyn Christopher, and offers a little window into what we have lost with all our rushing around. Evelyn Christopher is 94 years old and still grows enough food to give surplus away to neighbours. She comes from a time when time had a different texture. A place where pace was in step with the seasons. She understands the land, the sea, and the air. She doesn’t have much use for the goings on of contemporary society. She is one of the last of her kind, and with her goes a way of being in the world: dirt under your fingernails, chores every morning at dawn, knowing just how to grow a turnip, stacking every stitch of firewood for the lean winter months... there will never be another Evelyn.
Best of the Fest & Best Non-Fiction Short - Yorkton Film Festival
Audience Choice Award - Dawson City International Short Film Fest
Lunenburg Doc Fest Official Selection
Halifax Independent Filmmakers Festival Official Selection
Charlottetown Film Festival Official Selection
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