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Ice Breakers
201915 min 8 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Sandamini Rankaduwa
Production: Rohan FernandoAnnette Clarke
Script: Sandi Rankaduwa
Josh Crooks is a promising teen hockey star in a sport where Black players like him are chronically underrepresented. Ice Breakers reveals the buried history of a pioneering Black hockey league in Atlantic Canada, as Crooks discovers that his unshakable passion is tied to a rich and remarkable heritage.
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Subject categories
- Cultural Diversity and Multiculturalism > Atlantic RegionBlack Community
- Sports and Leisure - Winter Sports > Hockey
- Children and Youth > Sports, Leisure and Play
- Diversity > Black StudiesIdentity
- Health/Personal Development > Bullying & Discrimination
Credits
- writer
- Sandi Rankaduwa
- director
- Sandamini Rankaduwa
- director of photography
- Andrew MacCormack
- editing
- Millefiore Clarkes
- sound design
- Judith Gruber-Stitzer
- music
- Jeff Johnston
- producer
- Rohan Fernando
- sound recordist
- Andrew Rillie
- additional sound
- Yalitsa Riden
- drone services
- Skyline Studio
- grip
- Keith Mitchell
- production assistant
- Erica Meus Saunders
- researcher
- Sandi Rankaduwa
- consultant
- Ricardo Acosta
- Andrew MacCormack
- transcriptionist
- Lisa Clarke
- musician
- Jeff Johnston
- Sheila Hannigan
- production supervisor
- Roz Power
- technical coordinator
- Daniel Lord
- Christopher MacIntosh
- on-line colourist
- Doug Woods
- assistant on-line editor
- Robert Carrigan
- title design
- Robert Carrigan
- re-recording
- Isabelle Lussier
- music mixer
- Pierre Yves Drapeau
- foley artist
- Karla Baumgardner
- dialogue editor
- Sandy Pinteus
- digital editing technician
- Pierre Dupont
- Isabelle Painchaud
- Patrick Trahan
- sound technician
- Bernard Belley
- senior production coordinator
- Cheryl Murgatroyd
- studio administrator
- Camila Blos
- Leslie Anne Poyntz
- marketing manager
- Johanna Lessard
- marketing coordinator
- Jolène Lessard
- publicist
- Patricia Dillon-Moore
- legal counsel
- Peter Kallianiotis
- executive producer
- Annette Clarke
- executive director
- Michelle van Beusekom