Beauty Begins Inside - The Pressure Zone

199511 min 24 secFilm: Fiction

Direction: Sheila Murphy

Production: Michael HendricksTamara LynchIsobel Marks

Script: Sylvain Guy

Co-produced by Savoury Productions and the NFB with the financial participation of Dairy Farmers of Canada.

The Pressure Zone is a hilarious send-up of the forces that try to shape adolescent minds and bodies. Two mirrors--one promoting the perfect body through a merciless regime of muscle building and dieting, the other through tapping into the "essential essence" via meditation and herbal remedies--vie for loyal customers. As each advertises their vision as the right way, the teens are prodded, taunted and provoked into submission by making them believe that their bodies need improvement, but then the teenagers take control back from the mirrors and accept themselves from the inside out.

Subject categories


  • Children and Youth > Adolescent Social BehaviourHealth and Safety
  • Health and Medicine > Alternative, Holistic and Indigenous MedicineFitness and WeightFood Issues and Nutrition
  • Food and Food Industries > Diet and Nutrition
  • Health/Personal Development > Human Growth and Development

Credits


director
Sheila Murphy
producer
Michael Hendricks
Tamara Lynch
executive producer
Isobel Marks
script
Sylvain Guy
photography
Rénald Bellemare
sound
Hans Oomes
editing
Glenn Berman
sound editing
André Chaput
re-recording
Louis Hone
animation
Jane Churchill
Dominique Normand
music
Neil Smolar
cast
Fatuma Kayembe
Philip Le Maistre
Christopher Olscamp
Alexandra Ferber
Jessica Malka
Emmanuel Ouellet
Nadia Raglir
Benjamin Shirinian
Katherine Wheeler
Alain Gabriel
Gayle Garfinkle
Gary Jewell

Awards


  • Honorable Mention International Film and Video Festival