Enjoy some of our most recent videos. These were made possible through funding from an Ontario Seniors Community Grant.
One of the objectives of this particular grant was to begin building a team of volunteer senior videographers who could continue collecting seniors stories. We have posted one: The Sisters and Sam: Helga and Karin’s Story.
Are you a senior, interested in learning to make videos? Please email us at info@backlanestudios.ca or call us at 647-313-1654.
Behind the Scenes at Back Lane Studios
SilverShorts workshop participants decided to make a video about the program to teach seniors how to make videos.
The Second Hundred Years
Graham Mills and James FitzGerald created this short video about the Revue Cinema, while learning video-making skills.
Inspired by Nature: David & Kerry\'s Story
David Wistow and Kerry Skinner have created a beautiful garden at their house in Toronto\'s west end. David\'s remarkable paintings of flowers chronicle the changing seasons.
What Enlightenment? Ellen\'s Story
Ellen Shifrin was looking for meaning, for some kind of enlightenment. She found a guru and joined his community. But what she actually found was a cult, and it took a long time for her to extricate herself.
Bending the Map: Bob's Story
One of Bob Rose's treasures is a compass that belonged to his grandfather. At a certain point in his life, however, the former Nova Scotian who worked for decades helping the disadvantaged in Parkdale, lost his bearings. After helping the mentally ill for years, he found himself in a psychiatric ward. Bob talks about the milestones in his personal journey.
Britain, the Beatles, Bobby Gimby and Me: Piers\'s Story
In the early 1960s, Piers Hemmingsen was living in Britain with his family when he first heard the Beatles. His love of their songs changed his life, and, in a curious way, led to his membership in Bobby Gimby\'s troupe of kids singing Can-a-da on Parliament Hill in 1967.
Mon année de changement: Ester\'s Story
Ester Saltzman was a unilingual English-speaker living in Montreal during the turbulent 1970s. She decided to set herself a challenge and took a year-long program at the Université de Montréal. The experience was good for her -- and for her French-speaking fellow students.
Recollections: Bill\'s Story
Bill Jermyn grew up in Ireland in a village where there were no modern conveniences and his mother served as the local mortician. His prize possessions from those days: a pitcher, basin and chamber pot that belonged to his grandmother.
Madison Avenue and Me, 1968: Elizabeth\'s Story
She left Montreal for New York with ambitions to become a Broadway dancer. But instead Elizabeth Ross ended up instead as the first woman selling print advertising space in New York City, when Mad Men ruled Madison Ave. and the 1960s music scene was rocking.
The Sisters and Sam: Helga and Karin's Story
When sisters Helga Schuliakewich and Karin Smith came to Toronto from Germany in the 1950s, a local retailer gave them jobs. His name was Sam Sniderman -- Sam the Recordman. Karin's eyes still fill with tears when she talks about his kindness.
