Reading Alistair MacLeod
A moving portrait of the noble writer Alistair MacLeod by the Governor General's Award winning filmmaker William D. MacGillivray
Featuring his fellow writers:
Margaret Atwood
Colm Toibin
Lisa Moore
David Adams Richards
Russell Banks
Wayne Johnston
Alexander MacLeod
Alistair MacLeod has been hailed internationally as a master of the short story, and his novel
No Great Mischief was celebrated around the world. Most of his work is firmly based in
Cape Breton even if its people stray elsewhere. They depict men and women living out their lives against the haunting landscape that surround them. Focusing on the complexities and abiding mysteries at the heart of human relationships, MacLeod maps the close bonds and impassable chasms that lie between man and woman, parent and child, and invokes memory and myth to celebrate the continuity of the generations, even in the midst of unremitting change. This film portrait will explore the life and work of this giant of literature.
Directed by: William D. MacGillivray
Producer: Kent Martin, Terry Greenlaw
Editor: Christoher Cooper
Cinematography: Kent Nason
Sound: Alex Salter
Produced by: The National Film Board and Picture Plant