How Oil Sands Workers Use Karaoke to Cope
Charles Wilkinson
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Posted 03.29.2013
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We pitched the idea at Hot Docs last May (where the now finished film -- Oil Sands Karaoke is having its world premiere this month), got greenlit by the awesome team at Knowledge Network, and here we are in the bar with 5D cameras in hand. My partner and producer Tina Schliessler and I accidentally visited a karaoke bar in the oil patch late one night last year while making our last film -- Peace Out -- about the aggressive energy extraction in the Peace watershed. By the time we realized what the bar was the drinks were already on the way.
