FilmWritten & Directed by Suzanne Crocker A huge thank you to all the food producers of Dawson City, Yukon and to the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in First Nation including: Otto Muehlbach & Conny Handwerk , Kokopellie Farm Funders: Produced with the Participation of
Thank you to all the people of Dawson and beyond who shared knowledge, garden space, freezer space, recipes, wild berries, exotic Dawson grown vegetables, empty milk jugs and more! Driss Adrao
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TEAM BIOSSuzanne Crocker
Suzanne Crocker, a Yukon filmmaker, switched careers from rural family physician to filmmaker in 2009.
Her feature-film-directing debut was with All The Time In The World (2014), a critically-acclaimed documentary film that has won 22 awards worldwide and screened in 25 countries in every continent including Antarctica.
Suzanne lives in Dawson City with her husband and three children.
Miche Genest
Yukon author and cook Michele Genest loves cooking with the wild and cultivated foods of Canada’s boreal forest. Those foods inspired her two bestselling cookbooks, The Boreal Gourmet, Adventures in Northern Cooking (2010) and The Boreal Feast, a Culinary Journey Through the North (2014). Her most recent project, Vadzaih, Cooking Caribou from Antler to Hoof, was a collaboration with community cooks from Old Crow, Yukon, the Vuntut Gwich’in Government and the Porcupine Caribou Management Board.
Leigh Joseph
Leigh Joseph is a member of the Squamish First Nation. She completed her Masters in Ethnobotany in the department of Environmental Studies at the University of Victoria. She will be pursuing a PhD in Ethnobotany starting in September 2017.
Ethnobotany is the study of the relationships between people and plants. A major part of this is study is how plants have been, and are currently utilized, medicinally and for food by different cultures. The study of Ethnobotany combines biology, Traditional Ecological Knowledge as well as approaches to creating healthy ways of living and connections to the land.
Leigh has worked with her home community in Squamish to renew Ethnobotanical knowledge. She has worked with the elders, knowledge holders and youth to restore culturally important plant species and record this knowledge so that community members can utilize it into the future. She is particularly interested in the links between traditional plant use and health.
Leigh has most recently worked as an Ethnobotanist with the Tahltan Nation inTelegraph Creek, British Columbia. She has also worked with Indigenous
communities on Southern Vancouver Island, Kingcome Inlet and Haida Gwaii.
Leigh and her husband and two children are currently living in Dawson City in the territory of the Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in People.
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Bev Gray
Hailing from the Yukon, Beverley Gray is the author of the award winning and national bestselling book, The Boreal Herbal: Wild Food and Medicine Plants of the North. She is also the author of A Field Guide to Medicinal Wild Plants of Canada published by Harbour Publishing (2013).
In addition to her books, Beverley is well known as a boreal herbalist, aromatherapist, natural-health practitioner, journalist, and an award-winning natural health-product formulator. She owns the Aroma Borealis Herb Shop in Whitehorse, Yukon. Beverley loves to share her passion for wild medicinal and food plants through herb walks, talks and medicine making.
Cathie Archbould
Cathie Arcbould has been photographing the North for over 20 years for international newspapers and magazines, corporate and government clients. For her, each new assignments brings the same level of adventure and excitement as the first one did.
Her work is a study in extremes, from environmental portraiture to industrial documentation, and everything in between — editorial, creative advertising campaigns, annual reports, aerial photography, architecture, and more.
In Cathie's own words: "I love the North — its people, the land, the lifestyle. This comes out in my photography." |
What a wo0nderful project, Suzanne. Your head is so full of ideas that one never know what you will do next. I am excited to follow along with you on your years journey. This is so interesting and being a lover of recipes and cooking I can’t wait until it all becomes available. LOL Lois
Loved the film (saw it last night), and loved the musical score as well. Could you please list the music, and the artists that sang/played in it? Many thanks!
Hi Lisa
Will get this information updated on the website – thanks for that nudge! In the meantime:
3 Dawson singer songwriters had pieces: Andrew Lavioellette’s “Present Tense” from his Snow Tires album https://andrewlaviolette.bandcamp.com ; J. Robert Cooke’s “Violet’s Song” and Marieke Heinsch’s “Whispering”. Also amazing finger style guitar by Alex Houghton https://alexhoughton.bandcamp.com/album/all-the-time-in-the-world, as well as music composed by sound designer David Parfit and the very fun “Cows Around” by Alberta’s country star Corb Lund.
thank-you! Who sang thw song about the george black ferry? and what is the song?
That was “Whispering” by Yukon’s Marieke Hiensche. But unfortunately, I don’t think you can find it online anywhere. I will encourage her! It’s a beautiful song.
it is! tell her i’ll be her first fan on youtube!
https://soundcloud.com/marieke-hiensch Lisa, I found this link to Marieke Hiensch, as I too was looking for her music – it’s beautiful music. I was looking for the song that has the lyrics “crossing the Yukon…”
Thanks so much for finding this link. Many folks have been asking for it. I will share it on the website with the film credits. The song in the film is called
“Whispering” and it is on this sound cloud link.
Many thanks!