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William MacGillivray: Lake Loon

Sleepy Community Dept: Deanna Sparks, with whom he worked on the 1999 TV movie One Heart Broken Into Song, brought the story to him, according to The Chronicle Herald. It was a sleepy community and Deanna and her family lived a simple life. And a 20-something guy arrived and moved into Lake Loon with his family and they had Afros and dashikis and everyone gravitated towards him and the Panther Next Door is one of the few movies award-winning filmmaker William MacGillivray has made that wasn t his own idea. She grew up in Lake Loon in the 1970s, says MacGillivray, sitting at the Lord Nelson Hotel in Halifax, headquarters for the Atlantic Film Festival until Thursday. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.