Six Degrees of Film, Social, and Cultural History: The Fogo Island Film Project of 1967 and the "Newfoundland Renaissance"

• Main Author: Newhook, Susan
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Acadiensis Press 2010
• Subjects: Fogo; Fogo Island; Newfoundland; Terre-Neuve; University of Newfoundland
• Online Access: https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/Acadiensis/article/view/18420

The Fogo Island film partnership of the National Film Board and the Memorial University of Newfoundland Extension Service helped establish a fisheries cooperative on Fogo Island and, in the process, a template for the NFB’s Challenge for Change program. The Fogo Island films have achieved near-mythi...