Nobody Waved Good-bye is a 1964 black-and-white National Film Board of Canada

National Film Board of Canada

The National Film Board of Canada is Canada's twelve-time Academy Award-winning public film producer and distributor. An agency of the Government of Canada, the NFB produces and distributes documentary, animation, alternative drama and digital media productions...

 production directed by Don Owen, starring Peter Kastner

Peter Kastner

Peter Kastner was a Canadian-born actor who achieved prominence as a disaffected youth in movies of the 1960s....

, Julie Biggs and Claude Rae. It was followed twenty years later by a sequel, Unfinished Business, with the same director and two lead actors.

Awards

Despite the fact that it was a fiction film, it was awarded the Robert J. Flaherty

Robert J. Flaherty

Robert Joseph Flaherty, F.R.G.S. was an American filmmaker who directed and produced the first commercially successful feature length documentary film, Nanook of the North...

 Award for best non-fiction film by BAFTA in 1965. http://www.nfb.ca/collection/films/fiche/?id=10460&v=h&lg=en&exp=$%7bnobody%7d%2520AND%2520$%7bwaved%7d%2520AND%2520$%7bgoodbye%7d#ff-prix

In 2004, Nobody Waved Goodbye was honoured as a MasterWork by the Audio-Visual Preservation Trust of Canada

Audio-Visual Preservation Trust of Canada

The Audio-Visual Preservation Trust of Canada was a charitable non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the preservation of Canada’s audio-visual heritage, and to facilitating access to regional and national collections through partnerships with members of Canada's audio-visual community...

. http://avtrust.ca/masterworks/2004/en_film_2.htm

External links

• Watch Nobody Waved Good-bye at NFB.ca