Dear Mr. Dudley follows a series of hand-written letters that trace the five thousand, eight hundred, and seventy-two kilometres between the filmmaker and his estranged father. Armed with a Super8 camera and his trusty old van, Morgan Tams sets out along the lesser highways of Canada from coastal British Columbia to Prince Edward Island, following the imagined path of their written correspondence. With every turn of the page and bump of the long road between them, their newly discovered relationship slowly blossoms into an ethereal reflection on memory, distance, and family.

Watch this film as part of the shorts program "The Art of Connection: People, Places, Plants" in the ReFrame Virtual Theatre.

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