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CHARMAINE HAMMOND + MICHAEL MANKOWSKI
Build preparedness and resiliency
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Filmmakers
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This episode is about a disaster, how a community pulled together and the film that was made about resiliency. My guests are Charmaine Hammond and the screenwriter/filmmaker Michael Mankowski of the movie Back Home Again – A Fort McMurray Wood Buffalo Story, which is a new animated short film promoting conversation and awareness for mental health. Here’s a premiere of a new clip that gets to the Heart of the story. Back Home Again is available to stream everywhere in Fall 2021. The Canadian red cross, the Canadian mental health association, and Fort McMurray Wood Buffalo economic development & tourism join forces to bring to life back home again, an animated short film with an all-star voice cast, that aims to build mental health awareness and spark conversations in communities across Canada and around the world.