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TAGONA CREATIVE
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Tagona Creative, the innovative Sault creative works enterprise headed by partners Andrew Traficante and Bryan Davies, announces three remarkable projects that contribute to the resurgent post-industrial city and its 21st century sustainability ethic.
Now headquartered in the beautiful offices Francis Clergue established as his Sault industrial empire epicentre, the Tagona partners’ passion for great history and compelling stories drives their flagship documentary film production, Clergue’s Phoenix.
This cutting-edge documentary approaches Clergue and his legacy from three unique perspectives: the First Nations’ communities dramatically impacted by Clergue’s relentless Sault works expansion, the dramatic 1903 Consolidated Superior collapse, and the present-day cultural and economic resurgence spearheaded at Mill Square by Riversedge Developments.
Based on fresh and extensive Tagona research, assisted and inspired by eminent Canadian historians Michael Bliss and Duncan McDowell, the Tagona production is slated for 2015 North American and international commercial release.
Also anticipated for 2015 release are two Tagona World War I literary works, Stewart’s War and Private A.V. Manuel, Royal Newfoundland Regiment, 1914-1918.
Stewart’s War is based on 180 WWI letters exchanged between family members and three volunteer soldier-brothers.
Their family story reflects the larger Canadian national Great War trajectory, where enthusiastic, unconditional support for a glorious British imperial cause slowly gave way to the sober understanding of war as purposeless slaughter.
Two Stewart brothers were killed in action, and the grieving family left to wonder what their sacrifice actually achieved.
Its Private Manuel memoire is the second Tagona WWI project poised to make a unique Canadian military history contribution.
The profound Manuel narrative builds on his grim WWI soldier experience: combat in Gallipoli, terrible wounds sustained in the Newfoundland Regiment’s infamous 197July 1 1916 decimation at the Somme’s Beaumont Hamel, and his 1917 German capture at the Passchendaele killing fields.
The stark fact that Manuel survived WWI is remarkable – his fuller story, including 17 months as a German POW, fully substantiated by Tagona’s careful Canadian and European research, is powerful proof that truth is compelling than fiction.
Tagona coordinates these innovative projects from its 75 Huron Street offices, a stone’s throw from the St. Mary's Rapids.
Its eternal watery rush sustained Ojibwa First Peoples communities, through Clergue’s flawed industrial empire to the present day Mills Square revitalization.
Tagona's partnerships with local and international film professionals, innovative new age media, globally respected historians, and the partners’ love of great stories ensures the Sault its first-ever creative works incubator.
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