Driven by Dreams

20061 h 11 min 1 secFilm: Documentary

Direction: Serge Giguère

Production: Colette Loumède (National Film Board of Canada)Sylvie Van Brabant (Les Productions du Rapide-blanc)Nicole Hubert

Script: Serge Giguère

Produced by Les Productions du Rapide-Blanc in co-production with the National Film Board of Canada with the financial participation of SODEC - Société de développement des entreprises culturelles-Québec, Crédit d'impôt cinéma et télévision-Gestion SODEC, Conseil des arts du Canada, Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, Téléfilm Canada and Crédit d'impôt du Canada.

Driven by Dreams is proof positive that it is possible to grow old happily. The film exudes a feeling of creativity and joy in living that the camera conveys through the closeness and intimacy the filmmaker shares with the people he shows on screen. Even if death is ever present, it cannot alter the gentle warmth of this film that reveals the subtle and precious lessons that unpretentious wisdom has to offer. A film that helps us live better lives! In French with English subtitles.

Subject categories

  • Sports and Leisure > Elderly People
  • Psychology and Psychiatry > Life and Death
  • Seniors > RecreationRetirementWomen

Credits

participation
Gérard Allaire
Reine Décarie
Jean Lacasse
Ray Monde
Alice Allaire
Jean Allaire
Jacques Beaudet
Édith Boisvert
Mariline Giguère
Gérard Lacasse
Jocelyne Lacasse
Pierre Lacasse
Alice Lafrenière
Louise Larouche
Geneviève Lenoir
Liliane Letendre
Marcelle Nobert
Rosaire Saint-Pierre
André Trudel
Gonzague Asselin
Claude Boisvert
Guy Bourdon
Pierre Despatie
Fernande Fay
Guy Labbé
Laurent Lauzon
Martin Hazarian
Rodolphe Holmes
Paul Houde
Robert Lefebvre
André Martin
Malcolm McCambridge
Gaston Melançon
Dave Rosner
Maurice St-Onge
Jean Roger Savard
Paul Trépanier
Richard Vilandré
research
Serge Giguère
script
Serge Giguère
direction
Serge Giguère
camera
Serge Giguère
picture editing
Louise Dugal
script consultant
Francine Tougas
sound
Serge Giguère
additional sound recording
Esther Auger
Pierre Bertrand
Diane Carrière
François Guérin
Richard Lavoie
sound design
Claude Beaugrand
sound editing
Claude Beaugrand
original music
René Lussier
musician
Luzio Altobelli
Pierre Langevin
René Lussier
Liette Remon
Jean René
music recording
Martin Messier
music re-recording
Martin Messier
music copyright release
Lucie Bourgouin
foley
Lise Wedlock
foley recording
Geoffrey Mitchell
re-recording
Serge Boivin
Jean Paul Vialard
online editing
Sylvain Desbiens
Françoise Laprise
titles
Gaspard Gaudreau
on-line titles
Denis Gathelier
translation
Kathleen Fleming
technical support - off-line editing
Théo Van Brabant
off-line editing assistant
Katerine Poirier
Stéphan Joncas
marketing officer
François Jacques
administrator
Manon Provencher
Lorette Torelli
administrative team
Dominique Brunet
Nathalie Cloutier
technical coordinator
Richard Cliche
associate producer
Christiane Germain
associate producer - assistance
Maryse Chapdelaine
production assistant
Marie-France Côté
assistant
Katerine Poirier
administrator - assistant
Mirabelle Bélanger
Monique Rousselet
executive producer
Colette Loumède
Sylvie Van Brabant
producer
Nicole Hubert