Thomas Buchan and Stuart Reaugh Nominated for Leo Award

First-time documentary filmmakers Thomas Buchan (o5) and Stuart Reaugh (05) have been nominated for a Leo award for the documentary Hope they co-directed with the National Film Board of Canada. Dennis Burke, Associate Dean, Degree Programs, was responsible for Sound Design and Re-recording Mixing as well as being the film's Composer.

Hope follows artist Ken Paquette, his partner Winnie Peters and their five boys (ages four through fifteen) as they struggle to cope during a year of wrenching change.
The family lives on the Schkam Native Reserve, across the river from the town of Hope. The town is a transitory place at the junction of three highways.

With painterly attention to the ordinary details of life in an interior town - dark mountains shrouded in mist, rotting abandoned cars amidst the vaulted green spaces of the forest - the film captures two very different senses of time. The permanence of the land set against an explosive human drama that exists for fragile moments, before life and circumstances move on. The directors lived alongside the family over the course of a year, becoming an intimate part of events.

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