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Ben Heppner: Moving Through Music
20165 min 30 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Randall Lloyd Okita
Production: David OppenheimAnita Lee
Script: Randall Lloyd Okita
Produced by the National Film Board of Canada in co-operation with the National Arts Centre and the Governor General's Performing Arts Awards Foundation.
This short film gives us insight into the singing prowess of renowned tenor Ben Heppner, one of Canada’s pre-eminent musical ambassadors. Revealing his intimate connection to the power of performance, the film plays with scale and layers of sound, revisiting the architectural and sonic spaces that Heppner’s voice has inhabited throughout his remarkable career—from country churches to the major opera houses of the world.
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Subject categories
- Music > Classical MusicOpera and OperettaPortraits
Credits
- recipient
- Ben Heppner
- writer
- Randall Lloyd Okita
- director
- Randall Lloyd Okita
- producer
- David Oppenheim
- director of photography
- Jackson Parrell
- editing
- Kyle Smith
- production designer
- Matthew Morgan
- art department production assistant
- Dustin Rabin
- production manager
- Tania Thompson
- production coordinator
- Jennifer Bertling
- technical coordinator
- Marcus Matyas
- 1st assistant camera
- Jackson Yeung
- key grip
- TJ Richardson
- Tony Ranieri
- key gaffer
- Ryan Hernandez
- swing
- Todd Thompson
- sound recordist
- Lodewijk Vos
- wardrobe designer
- Angela Thomas
- makeup artist
- Misty Fox
- stills photographer
- Dustin Rabin
- production assistant
- Sally Gillespie
- Joseph Murray
- Lindsay Zanatta
- online editor
- Kyle Smith
- colourist
- Kyle Smith
- visual effects
- Sam Javanrouh
- Helen Thach
- post picture facility
- Eggplant Pictures
- original music
- Menalon
- sound editing
- Lodewijk Vos
- Joseph Murray
- sound mix studio
- Eggplant Pictures
- re-recording mixer
- Ian Rodness
- visual research
- Elspeth Domville
- music clearances
- Erin Chisholm
- supervising producer
- Stéphanie L'Écuyer
- production supervisor
- Mark Wilson
- studio administrator
- Stefanie Brantner
- executive producer
- Anita Lee