Optimism

The urge to relieve a winter valley of permanent shadow and find gold in alluvial gravel is part of a long history of desire and extraction in the far Canadian north. Cancan dancers, curlers, smelters, former city officials, and a curious cliff-side mirrored disc congregate to form a town portrait. Shot on location in Dawson City, Yukon Territory.

• Deborah StratmanDirector
• Deborah StratmanWriter

• John SteinsCast
• Steven BadgettCast
• Charles StankievechCast
• Simon Mason-WoodCast
• Lance BlomgrenCast
• Eldo EnnsCast