Let the Daylight Into the Swamp (2012)
37m
Running Time
September 1, 2012Release Date
Let the Daylight Into the Swamp (2012)
37m
Running Time
September 1, 2012Release Date
Network & Production Companies
Plot.
Filmmaker Jeffrey St. Jules reconstructs the story of his grandparents and their rugged frontier life in the logging towns of Northern Ontario. It is a genre twisting reflection on a fractured family history, which St. Jules infuses with myth and fact, joy and heartbreak.
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Cast & Crew.
Sean McCann
Old Donal
Diana Leblanc
Old Hélène
Pierre Simpson
Young Donal
Colombe Demers
Young Hélène
Matthew Rankin
Narrator
Alexander Engel
Edmond St. Judes
Noah Ryan Scott
Intrepid Boy
Sal Scozzari
Guy Aveline
Details.
Wiki.
Let the Daylight Into the Swamp is a 2012 Canadian short docudrama film, directed by Jeffrey St. Jules. Exploring the breakup of his grandparents Donal and Hélène soon after his father's birth, the film is narrated by Matthew Rankin, and dramatizes the original events as acted by a cast that includes Pierre Simpson and Colombe Demers as his grandparents in their youth, and Sean McCann and Diana Leblanc as his grandparents in older age.
The film premiered at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival. It was a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Short Documentary at the 1st Canadian Screen Awards in 2013, and won the Golden Sheaf Award - Best of Festival and Best Experimental at the Yorkton Film Festival.