We Lend a Hand: The Forgotten Story of Ontario Farmerettes

Hi, my name is Colin Field and I am a filmmaker working with Bonnie Sitter to make a documentary about Ontario Farmerettes - young women helped to win the Second World War by working on Canadian farms.

I received grants totalling $20,000 from the London Arts Council through the City of London Community Arts Investment Program, and from the Lambton Creative County Grant Program.

This funding, along with corporate sponsors and private donations, has allowed me to interview 20 former Farmerettes (most of whom are now in their 90’s) and create a 50 minute documentary that also includes animations and re-enactments.

This additional funding request through GoFundMe is to allow us to complete post-production (including licensing music, and very costly archival footage from the NFB, closed captioning, descriptive audio, subtitling, creation of DCPs for screening in theatres, etc.) - plus marketing and distribution. The film will be entered into film festivals across Canada and Internationally. Public screening will also be arranged in communities across Ontario.

We also continue to apply for grants from Heritage and Arts Foundations and, if successful, our GoFundMe goal will be lowered accordingly.

Thank you in advance for any support you are able to provide to preserve these important Farmerette stories, and to share them with a broad audience!

To learn more please visit www.welendahand.ca