Welcome to Pine Point

Welcome to Pine Point

2011•35m•4.0/10

Documentary

Ratings

🎬TMDb

4.0/10(1)

Interactive short documentary film from the NFB. The mining town of Pine Point in Canada's northwest territories has been flattened, leaving its former residents with only their memories. Michael Simons and Paul Shoebridge explore what memories mean to us in this creative web story which attracted 100,000 viewers in its first two months and has been nominated for a Webby.

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Production

ONF | NFB

Language

EN

Status

Released

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