CinemaOSMovie · 2009 · 1h 3m

Finding Farley

IMDbDocumentary

In this feature documentary, husband-and-wife team Karsten Heuer and Leanne Allison (Being Caribou), along with their 2-year-old son and dog, retrace the literary footsteps of Canadian writer Farley Mowat. They canoe east from Calgary towards the Prairies (the geography of Farley's Born Naked and Owls in the Family) and then traverse the same paths that Mowat took more than 60 years earlier in Never Cry Wolf and People of the Deer. Their epic 5,000 km journey—trekking, sailing, portaging and paddling—ends in the Maritimes, at Mowat's Nova Scotia summer home.

Directed byLeanne Allison

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Status
Released
Runtime
1h 3m
Language
EN
Released
October 13, 2009
Studios
ONF | NFB

Featuring

Cast & crew

3 credited
Starring

Leanne Allison

Narrator

Karsten Heuer

Narrator

Farley Mowat

Self

Creative team
Directed by
Leanne Allison
Written by
Leanne Allison
Produced by
Tracey Friesen

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