Documentary,
13:40 minutes,
French,
YK,
2007
Synopsis
It is pitch dark and -40°C when the phone rings in Canada’s Northwest. An on-call teacher must bicycle to work at his school, through darkness and ice fog, in cold so deep that it makes steel break, cold which can freeze the lungs with a single unfiltered breath...
Creative team:
Writer/director/producer: Paul Davis
Personal statement
Director Paul Davis says:
"This film had its creative start during a long hard winter voyage halfway around the world in a big 'U' from -40°C in Whitehorse, Yukon, to -10°C in Tromso, North Norway.
Norwegians could not believe that we operate at -40°C, so I decided to make a film about my daily routine of biking to work as an on-call teacher, during 19 hour long nights, at -40°C in ice-fog..."
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Paul Davis
Paul has just recently arrived on the French Canadian TV market with films on Radio Canada’s Ça vaut le détour and the Tromso International Film Festival.
Bilingual cinéaste, writer and actor who does his own stunts, Paul is a consummate storyteller who is looking for production partners to draw upon the Yukon’s production grants.
Audio | Interview with Paul Davis
About this audio
Yukon filmmaker Paul Davis chats with NSI's Liz Janzen about his short documentary -40°C selected for the NSI Online Short Film Festival and available to watch from Oct. 6., 2008 onwards.
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