NFB Collection
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.
Part of
- Beauty Begins InsideSeries
Availability
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