My Friend Harry is a feature length hybrid documentary set on Salt Spring Island, BC. The film traces the unusual friendship between filmmaker Liz Cairns and her subject, Harry Warner, as their relationship blossoms and they both face life-altering health diagnoses. With intimate access into the complex, eccentric and witty man that is Harry , Liz explores the nature of filmmaking and the creative process, the vitality and ephemerality of friendship, and the ad hoc community that arises over the course of making a film.
My Friend Harry is a feature length hybrid documentary set on Salt Spring Island, BC. The film traces the unusual friendship between filmmaker Liz Cairns and her subject, Harry Warner, as their relationship blossoms and they both face life-altering health diagnoses. With intimate access into the complex, eccentric and witty man that is Harry , Liz explores the nature of filmmaking and the creative process, the vitality and ephemerality of friendship, and the ad hoc community that arises over the course of making a film.