JIM DECKER BUILDS A LONGLINE

On Fogo Island, Newfoundland, a fisherman builds a longliner boat with his friends' help, despite scarce financing, tools and government support.

A landmark of the NFB's Fogo Island experiment, using film to give a remote community its own voice.

By using film as a catalyst for change, the people of Fogo Island, Newfoundland, voice some of their daily concerns. This film shows how one of the Islanders built a longliner (a fishing boat using long lines) with the h

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