ONE HUNDRED MEN

CREW

Daniel Yon

Director/Writer/Producer

Daniel Yon is Associate Professor at York University, jointly appointed to the Faculty of Education and the Dept of Anthropology and currently Director of the Graduate Programme in Social Anthropology. His scholarly interests include the anthropology of race and racism, diasporas, cosmopolitisms. He is the author of Elusive Culture (SUNY 2000), an ethnography of youth, schooling and identity. One Hundred Men is his first film.

Paul Lee

Co-Producer

Paul Lee was born in Hong Kong in 1963, and moved to Toronto with his family in 1976.  He graduated from the University of Toronto with B.Sc.(biology/anthropology/Latin American Studies) and M.A. (anthropology) and Ph.D. (education), and from York University with M.B.A. (arts & media administration) and M.F.A. (film).

Since 1991 he has organized, programmed, and curated film festivals in Canada, the U.S., Mexico, Peru, Colombia, Argentina, Spain, Italy, Germany, Poland, Romania, Moldova, Mauritius, Bangladesh, Nepal, Indonesia, Thailand, Japan and the Philippines.

In addition to his programming activities, Paul also specializes in producing films for first-time filmmakers, and in producing international co-productions, women's films, Asian films, human rights/social justice educational films, and lesbian & gay films.

In 1994 he made his first short film Thick Lips Thin Lips, which has won 9 awards, and was screened at over 220 film festivals worldwide after its premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival.

In 1995 he made his second film These Shoes Weren't Made For Walking, which has won 6 awards, and was screened at over 80 film festivals after its premiere at the Sydney Film Festival (and the film is used in the Women's Studies curriculum in more than 30 universities and colleges across Canada, the U.S., Polynesia and the Caribbean).

In 1999 he made his third film The Offering, which has won 60 awards to date, and was screened at over 430 film festivals worldwide after its premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival.

Antonin Lhotsky

Principal Camera

Cinematographer/editor/producer Antonin Lhotsky is a graduate of F.A.M.U., the Czechoslovakia Film Academy in Prague. He has taught film at a number of Canadian film schools and has been a Professor of Film and Video Production at York University in Toronto for the last 10 years. As a Canadian filmmaker, Antonin has accumulated more than 100 film credits, mostly in cinematography but also as producer, director and editor in documentary and theatrical films. He has also worked on several multi-screen projects including Taming of the Demons (1986) which received a special Genie Award (Canada's top film honour) for Outstanding Film Achievement. During recent years, Antonin was Associate producer/cinematographer for the Karen Shopsowitz’s documentary A Place to Save Your Life, about Jewish refugees in Shanghai during World War II; and cinematographer for the half-hour drama The Visit, the feature film My Script Doctor and three short 35mm films: Island, sancesse and the award winning The Offering, which has 60 awards at more than 430 film festivals around the world, with 9 awards for Best Cinematography. Antonin was cinematographer for My Father’s Camera (National Film Board of Canada) which won the prestigious Peabody Award in 2002. He recently finished a short experimental film titled Last Year at Killaloe and a docudrama, The Last Illusion (As a Cinematographer/Producer).

Douglas Campbell

Editor/Music/Sound/Camera

Douglas Campbell is a doctoral candidate in Social Anthropology at York University. He has worked with youth on making videos as part of his doctoral fieldwork in Vanuatu. His works include: Reality Comes to Vanuatu (Canada/Vanuatu, 2005, 19:30, digital video); Wan Naes Wan (Vanuatu, 2003, 30:00, digital video, Vanuatu Young People's Project producer); The View From Dutton Dunwich: An Interview with John Kenneth Galbraith (Canada, 2003, 43:30, digital video); Certain General: At Peace (Canada/US, 2002, 4:30, digital video); Artists Against the Occupation (Canada, 2002, 8:30, digital video, Marcy Saddy co-producer); Collaborative Research on Colonial Domestic Research in Vanuatu (Canada, 2002, 17:30, digital video, Margaret Rodman producer); Spacing Out (Canada, 2001, 14:15, digital video); Wendake: A Space Set Apart, Or Our Camp Has AIDS (Canada, 2001, 42:30, digital video) 

Darrin Henry
Camera

Darrin started Capricorn Studios while working on Ascension Island where he made Living on the Rock using a 8m camcorder, a home VCR and a borrowed video player, audio mixer, microphone and connecting leads. With his partner Sharon, Capricorn Studies, he owns and runs Capricorn Studios in Jamestown, St Helena. His films include, Ascension Island, the South Atlantic Adventure (2004); A voyage on the RMS St Helena (2004); St Helena Island, a timeless discovery (2005); Narrow Daylight (2005).

Harriet Pacaud

Camera

Canadian-born director, producer, cinematographer Harriet Pacaud now lives and works in London. Her work in film is wide-ranging and is always attentive to issues of social justice. Her filmography includes, director: Female Parts: a dream of dress (1992); True Stories: Kirby’s Kingdom (1991); Another Side of London:where’s our platform? (1987); How Birds Sing (1983); Bank Street (1978). Producer: Live and Learn (1978).

Anya Richards

Camera

Anya Richards graduated from the Cheltenham and Gloucester Institute of Higher Education (now University of Gloucester University) with a B.A (Hons) in Professional Media Studies. She returned home to St Helena where she worked for the government in information technology. She now lives and works in Human Resources in Germany.

CAST

Reginal (Reggie) Benjamin remained in England at the end of the contract (which brought the one hundred men to Britain) and settled in Leighton Buzzard with he continues to live with his wife Grace Benjamin. Together they have Reggie’s birth-place and ‘home’, St Helena four times since first leaving and is planning a fifth visit.

Edward Clifford returned to his wife and daughter on St Helena at the end of the contract. He took up employment with the St Helena Government’s Agricultural and Forestry Dept and went on to become the island chief forester.

Bill Johns went to live in the north of England at the end of the contract and then went on to join the British Army. He has held a variety of jobs since leaving the forces, including long-distance deliveries. He first settled in Hemel Hempstead and later moved to Honiton in Devon settling with his wife Avril.

Edward Leo settled first in Kilburn, London, at the end of the contract where he met his wife Audrey Leo. After a variety of different jobs he and Audrey decided on moving away from fast-paced London to settle in Ringwood in Hampshire. Edward and Audrey have for many years been active members of the St Helena Association with Audrey serving as secretary for more than a decade. Edward and Audrey has made four trips to St Helena together.

Jordon Philips moved to London at the end of the contract, starting in Kilburn and eventually settled in the area of Ladbrooke Grove. He and his wife Joy Philips (also from St Helena) met in London. They continue to live in Ladbrook Grove.

Tom Routledge is an Oxfordshire Farmer who lives in Duns Tew in Oxfordshire. His father was a farmer. Tom remembers how his father employed some of the St Helena men during harvests on his farm.

Beverley Yon was born and grew up St Helena. She has held a number of financial/secretarial positions in government in St Helena. She has worked on Ascension Island and is currently holds a civilian administrative position with the British Forces on the Falkland Islands.

Walter Yon worked initially for United Dairies, in London, along with several other St Helena. He and his wife, Helen Yon, met in London where they started their family before moving out to the expanding town of Letchworth in Hertfordshire. They have visited St Helena on two occasions.

Grace and Reginal Benjamin
Edward Clifford
Iris Duncan
Avril and Bill Johns
Audrey and Edward Leo
Joyce and Jordon Philips
Helen and Walter Yon
Beverley Yon
Tom and Ann Routledge

Delia and Bob Allen
Ricardo Barcello
Malcolm Blincow
Deborah Britzman
David Clark
Isobel Clark
Ian Cosh
Dennis Day
Dorothy Evans
Richard Fung
Basil and Barbara George
Liz Guerrier
Ruth Hamill
Daniel Hammett
Patricia Hayse
Trevor Hearl
Radhika Johari
David Kisly
Marc Lafleur
Paul Lee
Susan Levine
Eileen Maybin
George and Poppy Moss
Alice Pitt
Ciraj Rassool
Gissle Richards
June and Terry Richards
Joe Saddy
Marcy Saddy
Veronica Schild
Mugsy Spiegal
Iain Staines
Robert Szucs
Shaun Viljoen
Remi Warner
Gary and Jenny Widdows
Pat Williams
David Young

Grace and Reginald Benjamin
David Clark
Iris Duncan
William Johns
Audrey and Edward Leo
George Moss
Joyce and Jordon Philips
Anne and Tom Routledge
Helen and Walter Yon

Public Records Office
Kew Gardens, London, UK
Government Archives
The Castle, Jamestown, St. Helena

Social Sciences and Humanities 
Research Council of Canada

Faculty of Arts
York University

Faculty of Education
York University

Department of Social Anthropology
University of Cape Town

Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology
Oxford University

The producer regrets any errors and omissions.

© Daniel Yon/South Atlantic World Productions 2007