Format: 16 mm, colour
Time: 7 minutes
Genre: narrative
Year: 2005

Synopsis

MY FUR HAT tells the story of a girl, her hat and a moment that changed her life forever.

Adult Kate opens a box and finds a child's hat. When removing the hat from the box, she is overcome by a memory of an event that happened in the winter of 1972. Young Kate is seven years old and being taunted by her classmates because of the fur hat she wears. She desperately tries to lose the hat only to find out that everyone associates her with the hat. But it is only when Young Kate successfully loses the hat that she realizes the how much she loves that hat. The film ends with Adult Kate returning the hat to the box and being reminded of the words of 19 th century British writer, George Eliot, “It is never too late to be what we might have been.”

Screenings

Cast and Crew

Cast

Sierra Slegtenhorst

Kate

Nancy Blais

Adult Kate

Laurie Stewart

Teacher

Michel Carbonneau

Bus Driver

Sheila Thurlow

Mother

Paige Fogal
Alexandre Renaud
Zachary Fogal
Sam Rubinoff
Charlotte Freve
James Vuckovic
Katherine Millington
Kevin Vuckovic
Kelly Moore
Margot Whittington

School Children

Kelly Ann Beaton

Voiceover

Crew

Writer/Director/Producer - Kelly Ann Beaton
Director of Photography - Dan Sokolowski
Assistant Director - Heather Ritchie
Camera - Dan Sokolowski
Assistant Camera - Peter Mann
Sound - David Dollard
Key Grip - Sylvie Brownlow
Continuity - Heather Ritchie
Child Wrangler - Chris Biggs
Editor - Kelly Ann Beaton
Sound Editing - Kelly Ann Beaton, Peter Mann
Music - Ian LeFeuvre, Peter von Althen (Drums and Percussion)
Production Assistants - Nathalie Dumais, Louis Marcotte, Sara Ann Oglestone, Katy Rubinoff

Music

Kate's Song (2005) composed and performed by Ian LeFeuvre.