Daniel Berish was going through old photographs with his grandmother one day when they came across one of her as a young woman in the forest, wrapped in a towel and beaming at the camera.
Hot Docs 2021: Dressing down to chronicle Canada’s oldest nudist camp
Filmmakers Danny Berish and Ryan Mah got naked to make the short documentary Nude To Me By Charlie Smith
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Director Danny Berish and cinematographer and producer Ryan Mah (left) stripped off all their clothes while filming Nude To Me at the Van Tan Club.
NUDE TO ME (Daniel Berish) as part of
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Filmmaker Danny Berish compares Canada’s oldest nudist club to a rustic Scandinavian spa.
Situated at the base of Mount Fromme in North Vancouver, the Van Tan Club was created by free thinkers in the midst of an idyllic forest way back in 1939.