A Safe Distance

Category: Documentary
The short documentary looks at some innovative approaches to providing services and accommodation for battered women in rural, northern, and Native communities. Filmed in Thompson and Portage La Prairie, Manitoba, and West Bay Reserve, Ontario, the film introduces the women who operate and use various types of accommodation such as transition houses, transition apartments, and safe houses. The shelter on West Bay Reserve is singled out as a project that was built by women for women to stand as a reminder that the Reserve will not tolerate violence against women. A Safe Distance is part of the The Next Step, a 3-film series about the services needed by and available to battered women.
Status: Released IMDb
Release date: 1986-01-01
Run time: 27 minute / 0:27
Director: Tina Horne
Website: https://nfb.ca/film/safe_distance
Production Company : ONF | NFB
Production Country: Canada

Trailer


Holly Dressel
as Narrator (voice)
Michèle Magny
as Narrator
Camera
Zoe Dirse Director of Photography

Sound
Jackie Newell Sound Editor

Directing
Tina Horne Director

Production
Kathleen Shannon Executive Producer
Tina Horne Producer

Sound
Norma Denys Sound

Production
Gerry Rogers Producer

Editing
Sidonie Kerr Editor

Sound
Judith Gruber-Stitzer Music





















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