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Button Blanket

Directed by Zoe Hopkins
Canada, 2009 (documentary, 3 minutes, colour)
Also known as "La couverture à boutons", "Vistas - Button Blanket", "Vistas - La couverture à boutons"
Button Blanket
Image: © National Film Board of Canada
Video (National Film Board of Canada)

Film Description:
"This short impressionist documentary looks at the creation of a Button Blanket by integrating the performance of a traditional dance with the art of the West coast Heiltsuk people. Vistas—13 short films on the theme of 'nationhood'. Produced by the National Film Board of Canada and APTN."
-- National Film Board of Canada (source)

Film Credits (partial):
Written by: Zoe L. Hopkins
Produced by: Selwyn Jacob, Tracey Friesen
Cinematography: Helen Haig-Brown
Film Editing: Eliot Piltz
Music: David Gladstone
Production Company: National Film Board of Canada / Office national du film du Canada, Animiki See Digital Productions Inc.
(sources)

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