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DAWN, HER DAD AND THE TRACTOR - Shelly Thompson (director) - Broad View Film Festival

Published: Nov. 10, 2023, 7:13 p.m.

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Mark Davies spoke with Shelly Thompson (director) about her film DAWN, HER DAD AND THE TRACTOR. It screens as part of the Broad View International FIlm Festival Saturday November 11th @ 4pm at Metro Cinema.

Set on a Nova Scotia dairy farm, John Andrew has just lost his wife Miranda to cancer. When a young woman with a startling resemblance to Miranda appears on his porch, an odyssey towards understanding begins. John Andrew\\u2019s estranged son Donald is now Dawn, and she\\u2019s come home to mourn her mother and keep her promise to repair her relationship with her Dad. Restoring the tractor her mother learned to drive on becomes a focus for the mechanically minded Dawn. John Andrew begins to realize that if he\\u2019s to reclaim this relationship, he has to come out with Dawn, and what better setting than the community tractor trials \\u2014 an event Miranda created as a tireless village volunteer \\u2014 where he proudly cheers for his daughter Dawn, as she enters the arena at the wheel of the lovingly restored tractor.

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