Home Feeling: Struggle for a Community

Home Feeling: Struggle for a Community

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jul 13, 1983

Runtime

0h 56m

Genres

Documentary

Original Title

Home Feeling: Struggle for a Community

Production Companies

ONF | NFB

Director

Jennifer Hodge de Silva

Description

This feature documentary takes us to the heart of the Jane-Finch "Corridor" in the early 1980s. Covering six square blocks in Toronto's North York, the area readily evokes images of vandalism, high-density subsidized housing, racial tension, despair and crime. By focusing on the lives of several of the residents, many of them black or members of other visible minorities, the film provides a powerful view of a community that, contrary to its popular image, is working towards a more positive future.