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It's Hard to Get It Here

Directed by Norma Bailey and Ian Elkin
Canada, 1984 (documentary, 44 minutes, colour, English)
It's Hard to Get It Here
Image: © National Film Board of Canada

Film Description:
"It's Hard to Get It Here documents the lives of three young Native people trying to cope with urban life. Bernice is an unemployed single mother; Mousie is intermittently employed, emotionally tied to the Reserve, but committed to staying with Emma, their son, and her daughters from a previous marriage. Their experiences in Winnipeg fall into the middle range; there are no happy endings, but no unhappy ones either."
-- National Film Board of Canada (source)

Film Credits (partial):
Written by: Bob Lower, O. Brion Whitford
Produced by: Norma Bailey, Michael Scott, Ian Elkin, Jan D'Arcy
Narrator: O. Brion Whitford
Film Editing: Lara Mazur, Norma Bailey
Production Company: National Film Board of Canada / Office national du film du Canada
(sources)

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