Little Yellow Boots
How can one help one’s great-grandchild who will be born fifty years from now? What do we pass on to those who come after us? And what difference can one person make in the world? These are the universal questions that occupy director John Webster in this cinematic letter to his imagined future great-grandchild. She will walk on a very different shoreline from the one we know. Taking a personal experience of loss as a starting point, the director takes us on a journey from Finland to the coal mines of Siberia, the Marshall Islands, and across the US. The story weaves together the past, present and future into a moving documentary film about the power each of us has to make a difference.
John Webster is a writer and director born in 1967, in Helsinki, to English teachers who later moved to Finland. John graduated from the University of Art and Design in Helsinki in 1996 with an MA in documentary filmmaking. Since 1990 he has directed independent documentaries that have won numerous awards nationally and internationally. He has run his own production company, JW Documentaries, since 1993.