Northland: Long Journey

A film about environment, family and justice. “Northland: Long Journey” is an evocative meditation on filmmaker Edie Steiner’s quest for new truths regarding her father’s death from occupational illness three decades prior. The film revisits an early National Film Board of Canada film, where her mining father is posed as a heroic worker. He later died from exposures to workplace toxins, but his death was officially denied to be related to his work environment. A generation later, new scientific evidence amended the original legal and medical judgments, and the process of making the film became an appeal for justice. Filmed in a small mining community in Northwestern Ontario, the film explores how truth is shaped by phenomena over time. Awards: Best Documentary Short, Reno Film Festival, 2008; Final Cut Award, Lake Havasu Film Festival, 2008; People’s Choice Award, Bay Street Film Festival (Thunder Bay), 2007