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.
- genus: Documentary
- Studio: Pythagoras Film
- keyword: woman director, short film
- cast: John Steins, Steven Badgett, Charles Stankievech, Simon Mason-Wood, Lance Blomgren, Eldo Enns
