A Time To Swim
Format: Feature Documentary, 1 x 82 mins — Credits: Writer, Director, Producer — Production Company: Catbird Productions
TRAILER
Trailer to the feature documentary, A Time To Swim (2017)
SYNOPSIS
Winner – Best First Feature Film, Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival 2018
In the suburbs of Montreal, Mutang Urud is a family man. But in Malaysia, he was a voice of resistance for the indigenous peoples of Sarawak. A Time to Swim follows Mutang as he returns home for the first time since his exile in 1992. The remote forest village, however, is not like he remembers it. Contrary to the will of the elders, cousins who once stood by him at the blockades are now welcoming the timber companies. Despite the threat of a lingering arrest warrant, Mutang can’t resist taking up his old cause. A Time to Swim explores the effects of environmental destruction on the fabric of a community through the personal story of Mutang’s search for belonging in a place where the very ideas of home and heritage are slipping away.
INFO
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Worldwide online: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/atimetoswim
Canada institutional: https://www.nfb.ca/film/time_to_swim/
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Winner – Best Canadian Feature Award, Vancouver Asian Film Festival 2017
Winner – Special Jury Prize for Best Feature Documentary, Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival 2017
Winner – Vijay Mohan Social Change Award, Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival 2017
Winner – Best First Feature Film, Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival 2018
Special Jury Mention – Prix Séquences du meilleur documentaire, Festival Présence autochtone 2017
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Written by | Ashley Duong, Richard Spiegel
Directed by | Ashley Duong
Produced by | Katarina Soukup, Ashley Duong
With | Mutang Urud
Also With | Noeli Urud, Agan Urud, Natasha Blanchet-Cohen
Director of Photography | Vincent Gonneville
Editor | Hannele Halm
Original Music | Olivier Alary
Sound | Cyril Bourseaux, Tobias Haines, Catherine Van Der Donkt, Richard Spiegel, Jean Paul Vialard
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Funders: Canada Media Fund, CALQ, National Film Board of Canada, Canadian Film or Video Tax Credit, Quebec Film and Television Tax Credit, Bell Fund, Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec
Broadcasters: Super Channel, Isuma TV, Al Jazeera, National Indigenous Television (Australia)
Distribution: National Film Board of Canada (Canada)
Filmoption International (World Sales)
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PRESS
Article and behind-the-scenes video by CBC - This filmmaker screened her documentary in a Borneo living room to the community that inspired it
Article by Ashley Duong on Al Jazeera - A Time to Swim: A Story of Resistance in the Forests of Borneo