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Ash & Oil: Fort McMurray After the Fire

Julia Ivanova
2016 | 9 min

Synopsis

In the spring of 2016, raging wildfires forced Mucharata Minog and 88,000 others to evacuate their homes in Fort McMurray, a remote northern city located at the centre of Canada’s oil sands region—home to the planet’s third-largest oil reserves. Apocalyptic images of cars fleeing the burning city were seen around the world.

In Ash & Oil: Fort McMurray After the Fire, director Julia Ivanova takes stock of life in “Fort Mac” as Mucharata—a former nanny who drives a two-ton truck on a nearby oil sands site—and other residents slowly make their way back to devastated homes and neighbourhoods and reconsider their futures.

Ash & Oil is Ivanova’s second film about Fort Mac. Her NFB feature documentary, Limit Is the Sky, follows young strivers and dreamers drawn to the northern Alberta city by the region’s once-booming oil and gas sector and will be released this fall.

Ash & Oil is the first collaboration between the NFB and The Guardian’s platform for short international documentary stories.

 

Link to blog:

Fort Mac Dreamin’

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Team

Sergei Bachlakov

Julia Ivanova
Director

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Debbie Boccabella

Bonnie Thompson
Producer

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Credits

Directed by
Julia Ivanova

Editors
Ileana Pietrobruno
Brendon Woollard

Cinematographer
Julia Ivanova

Producers
Adithya Sambamurthy
Bonnie Thompson

Executive Producers
David Christensen
Valerie Lapinski
Charlie Phillips

Executive Director
Michelle van Beusekom

Sound Design
Chris McIntosh
Postal Audio

Colourist
Herman Ansink

Studio Post
Phone Footage
Steven and Mucharata Minog

Thanks
Mucharata Minog
Brian and Dianalee Walrond
Rick Kirschner
MacMurray Gospel Assembly
NFB Pacific Studio
Wes Machnikowski
Shirely Vercruysse
Jennifer Rowan

Production Coordinators
Faye Yoneda
Ginette D’Silva

Production Supervisor
Esther Viragh

Program Administrator
Bree Beach

Centre Operations Manager
Darin Clausen

Produced by the National Film Board of Canada in Collaboration with The Guardian


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