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Mabel

Directed by Teresa MacInnes
Canada, 2016 (documentary, 21 minutes, colour / black and white, English)
Mabel
Image: © National Film Board of Canada
Video (National Film Board of Canada)
Video (National Film Board of Canada) [French]

Film Description:
"Feisty, fiercely independent and firmly rooted in place, 90 year-old Mabel Robinson broke barriers back in the 40s when she became the first woman in Hubbards, Nova Scotia, to launch her own business—a hairdressing salon where she still provides shampoo-n-sets over 70 years later. Weaving animation and archival imagery with intimate and laugh out loud moments in the salon, the film celebrates the power of friendship, doing what you love and staying active. With no desire to retire anytime soon, Mabel gives voice to a generation who are not front and center of cinema or the pop hairstyles of the day, and subtly shifts the lens on our perception of beauty and the elderly."
-- National Film Board of Canada (source)

Film Credits (partial):
Written by: Teresa MacInnes
Produced by: Annette Clarke
Participants: Mabel Robinson, Lola Ewing, Ruby Johnstone, Nellie Westhaver
Cinematography: Kent Nason
Animation: Frank Forrestall
Film Editing: Teresa MacInnes
Music: Judith Gruber-Stitzer
Production Company: National Film Board of Canada / Office national du film du Canada
(sources)

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