VILLAGE AT THE END OF THE ROAD 2024
CBC, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation broadcast this film on JUNE 15. Also permanently on its website GEM.cbc.ca
Premiere Screenings in Bay de Verde, Oct. 10, and at Memorial University, St. John's Newfoundland, Oct. 12. Nothing beats having your documentary subjects feel you've represented them respectfully and well.
A doc about changes in a NEWFOUNDLAND outport, Bay de Verde, in the years since the Cod Moratorium. Produced in partnership with anthropologist George Gmelch.
This is the trailer for Village at the End of the Road
youtu.be/jwio270NSzE-
More trailers from our first shoot:
vimeo.com/259250198
vimeo.com/247878495
youtu.be/jwio270NSzE-
More trailers from our first shoot:
vimeo.com/259250198
vimeo.com/247878495
A remote Newfoundland outport faces extinction. These are some portraits of residents' lives and memories. The cod fishery collapsed in 1992 leading to the largest industrial layoff in Canadian history. Once a vibrant community of independent fishermen, Bay de Verde was helpless in the face of international fishing trawlers and government fisheries mismanagement. A tide of outmigration followed, later slowed by a boom in mobile work as Newfoundlanders travelled back and forth to offshore oil rigs and further afield to Alberta’s oil sands, and elsewhere. Still, most of Bay de Verde’s young people are now gone. Its population has declined by half. How are those who remain at home coping? What future do they hope for? Will new developments, such as a different fishery (shellfish), tourism, and long-distance commuting be enough to save Bay de Verde? While the film focuses on one Newfoundland community, it serves as a wider comment on what is being lost in many rural places and traditional family-run businesses across the planet. A community struggles with its own demise.
