(Please note that the following chapter as well as the “Producer’s Journals” in the Money and Impact sections were recreated from my memory and notebooks. Some of the dates might not be spot on, but each of the stories indeed unfolded as mapped out.)

Narrative Arc (Story Ingredient 1)

Being Caribou (Karsten Heuer & Leanne Allison)

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November 2002: Diana Wilson was in the office today. She pitched a project about this couple following a caribou herd on its annual migration. On foot. For months. She figures the National Film Board is exactly the right partner for this project. It’s a pair of intrepid Albertan newlyweds, ...

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