No one is more aware of the effects of climate change on this environment than lobsterman Lyndon Patton. No one is more aware that the fisheries can collapse in a moment. From one year to the next, Lyndon sees the world changing around him. But no one interviewed was more joyous, enthusiastic and expressive in his actions and words about the joys of life on Entry Island, surrounded by the sea, even now.

It’s a good way to end this series of films, with a glimpse of a magic still there and still strong in everyday life.

About the Film:
Memories of Entry Island has six chapters of various lengths, complete in themselves. Dr. Brian Lewis, filmmaker and Concordia University professor, set out to capture the stories of ordinary people in an extraordinary environment. A community with a long history and a very challenging future, facing the erosion of both their community vitality and the land itself.

Dr. Lewis’s approach to the project was to try to be with, not simply look at, the people who agreed to be filmed.

The documentary is composed of six long interviews starting with open-ended questions, minimal camerawork, and focusing on faces. There were guiding questions, but the producers let the interviews go to where they wanted to go. The goals was to make a film about faces and stories that deserve to be shared, presented honestly and lovingly, with minimal interference from those behind the camera.