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Diana Leblanc
20154 min 30 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Mary Lewis
Production: René Chénier
Script: Mary Lewis
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 follows grand dame of the theatre Diana Leblanc as she prepares for a role in The Dybbuk (Soulpepper Theatre Company) and gets ready to direct an opera (Madame Butterfly). The film weaves together archival footage, photographs, and animation depicting Leblanc as a young ballerina, offering an intimate reflection on her life’s passions, challenges, and lessons.
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Subject categories
- Women - Portraits > Performing Arts
- Theater > Portraits
- Health/Personal Development > Careers & Education
- Arts Education > Drama
Credits
- recipient
- Diana Leblanc
- writer
- Mary Lewis
- director
- Mary Lewis
- producer
- René Chénier
- associate producer
- Jean-Marie Comeau
- director of photography
- Iris Ng
- sound recordist
- Mary Wong
- camera assistant
- Jordan Kawai
- gaffer
- Zach Zohr
- makeup artist
- Helene Mackenzie
- production assistant
- Nellie Carrier
- Daniel Stoker
- Kelly Read
- picture editing
- David Planche
- picture editing technical support
- Isabelle Painchaud
- Patrick Trahan
- Pierre Dupont
- online editing
- Serge Verreault
- titles
- Cynthia Ouellet
- translation
- Zoé Major
- subtitling
- Zoé Major
- sound design
- Benoît Dame
- re-recording
- Serge Boivin
- administrator
- Stéphanie Lalonde
- research
- Michèle Houle
- technical coordinator
- Daniel Lord
- project coordinator
- Stéphanie Lalonde
- project executive producer
- René Chénier