Mainstreet this week.
"The one thing we never thought about at any stage while we were making that film was ... to give encouragement to the preservation of an endangered language. We were not thinking about that and so to hear that was just thrilling."
LISTEN | Carol Anne and Tom Johnson meet co-director Peter Lord:
Mainstreet NS12:59Couple who overdubbed Chicken Run in Mi'kmaw meets one of the film's creatorsPeter Lord wrote and co-directed the 2000 British film and recently reached out to Tom and Carol Anne Johnson in Eskasoni, N.S., to thank them for their version overdubbed in Mi'kmaw.12:59
The Johnsons spent many long hours working to translate the film in their garage turned recording studio. A decade later, the overdubbed film has travelled around the Maritimes and they still get requests from people who want to watch it.