SYNOPSIS: In the early 1970s, ten teenagers (five boys and five girls) leave behind parents, school, and all other authority figures to live on a farm for ten weeks. What emerges in front of Allan King’s cameras are the fears, hopes, and alienation of a disillusioned generation. Come On Children is a swift, vivid rendering of the growing pains of a counterculture.
| Director | Allan King |
| Producer | Allan King |
| Photographed by | William Brayne |
| Editing | Arla Saare |
| Sound recordist | Brian Avery |
| Rerecorded by | Paul Coombe |
| Original music | John Hamilton, Alex Zivojinovich and Jack Zaza |
By September 21, 2010
WARRENDALE: MAN OF ACTION Allan King was one of cinema’s most acute chroniclers of unadorned reality, but the term documentary seems too puny to describe the intense, passionate stories he contrived . . . Read more »
By February 02, 2011
These tributes first appeared in the winter 2010 issue of Brick, a literary journal based in Toronto. They are posted here by permission of the authors. The photographs appear courtesy of Colleen . . . Read more »
By February 02, 2011
This essay first appeared in the winter 2010 issue of Brick, a literary journal based in Toronto. It is posted here by permission of the author. Michelangelo said he could sense the figure in . . . Read more »
By February 02, 2011
This interview was published in the winter 2010 issue of Brick, a literary journal based in Toronto. It is posted here by permission of the Toronto International Film Festival. The photograph appears . . . Read more »
By September 16, 2010
I didn’t know quite what to say to Allan King when I met him for the first time in the fall of 2003 at his home offices in downtown Toronto. This was partly out of deference to his reputation as . . . Read more »
By September 16, 2010
Seven years ago, I was a bright-eyed recent university grad who had just moved to the big city—Toronto—for the first time. I was struggling to find my path as a filmmaker, and at the Toronto International . . . Read more »
September 27, 2010
In his Los Angeles Times review of Eclipse Series 24, critic Dennis Lim lays out why readers may not know the filmmaker honored by the set, and why they should: “The subject of The Actuality Dramas . . . Read more »
