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A Whale of a Tale
200743 min 8 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Peter Lynch
Production: Ed BarreveldPeter LynchPeter StarrSilva BasmajianLynne CarterJohanna Lunn Montgomery
Script: Peter Lynch
Produced by Acqua Film Inc. and Storyline Entertainment in co-production with the National Film Board of Canada in association with CBC Newsworld.
Take one seemingly-innocuous "found object," mix in an absurd broth of characters and agendas, and you have A Whale of a Tale, a fanciful documentary that speaks to our gullibility and desire to believe in tall tales.
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Subject categories
- Psychology and Psychiatry > Perception
Credits
- writer
- Peter Lynch
- director
- Peter Lynch
- producer
- Ed Barreveld
- Peter Lynch
- Peter Starr
- cinematographer
- Stan Denniston
- editor
- Caroline Christie
- composer
- Anne Bourne
- electronic music
- Paul Watson
- narrator
- Peter Lynch
- narration writer
- Peter Lynch
- sound design
- Alison Clark
- dialogue editor
- Elma Bello
- musical score co-creator
- Anne Bourne
- Eric Chenaux
- Eve Egoyan
- re-recording mixer
- Daniel Pellerin
- Andrew Tay
- additional photography
- Ed Barreveld
- location sound
- Stan Denniston
- Sanjay Mehta
- music recording
- Ron Searles
- music recording - assistance
- Damian Kearns
- music editor
- Paul Shikata
- voice-over recordist
- Rob Andres
- research
- Sarah Christie
- additional research
- Ryan Noth
- Jessica Weatherup
- Peter Wronski
- animation
- Michelle Gay
- map painting
- Michelle Gay
- website
- Michelle Gay
- chalk drawings
- Thomas Carnegie
- production coordinator
- Sarah Christie
- assistant editor
- Ryan Noth
- online editor
- Dan Johnson
- commissioning editor
- Andrew Johnson
- executive producer
- Silva Basmajian
- production executive
- Lynne Carter
- Johanna Lunn Montgomery