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Village at the End of the Road
A documentary trailer. Village at the End of the Road follows Bay de Verde, a remote Newfoundland fishing outport that has lost half its people since the cod fishery collapsed in 1992 — and asks what future remains for those who stayed. ephemeris helped shoot the film and cut the trailer: a preview of the film to come, made to bring audiences in and help raise the funds to finish it.
Transcript — Village at the End of the Road
The ocean is what we made a living from the generations. Someone got to catch the fish to feed the people. And I was growing up. There was a lot more people there. Twice as many or more. But came out of school and we worked in that plant down there in the summertime. Everybody was happy.
There was a change in the in the in the atmosphere, in the community. There was a lot of people were, myself included. Some days were upset about losing your job and, and, and and in not knowing what the future holds for you. I got a job to do. I got two girls and a wife and a house that I wanted to make sure D got the best of everything right. If I can do it for them, I'm going to do it. And dad has to work a bit harder. Well, I'm going to work bit harder for it.
The future of Bay de Verde concerns me a little because, I mean, we only have 300 people living here. The only thing that we've got keeping baby for the love, I guess, is the fish plant. And if that falls through, then it's not really going to be a reason for people to live here.
Because nobody wants to live here with there's no work. It just keeps going, you know, down the road. It's going to fall apart. I hope I'm wrong and I hope I'm wrong by saying that, you know, I just with his life, there's hope.
Transcribed from the delivered film.