“I’ll make it by way and paint it up the way I want to do it. And if it suits them they can take it and if they don’t I like it myself ya know.”
Leo naugler
There are a lot of folk artists in Nova Scotia. A few you’ve heard of probably, like Maud Lewis. A lot you may not have heard. This joyous documentary will introduce you to a handful of artists who have no formal training, they are outside of the mainstream and making art for themselves from a place only they can describe.
Folk Art Found Me is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Alex Busby and released in 1993. The film is a portrait of folk artists in Nova Scotia. The film premiered at the 1993 Atlantic Film Festival, where it won the award for Best Atlantic Documentary.
It received a Genie Award nomination for Best Documentary at the 15th Genie Awards in 1994, and was co-winner with Frédéric Back’s The Mighty River of the Golden Sheaf Award for Best of Festival at the 1994 Yorkton Film Festival.
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