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Maple Syrup Farmer Swaps with Classical Indian Dancer
200324 minFilm: Documentary
Direction: Daniel Oron
Production: Ira LevyPeter WilliamsonTatyana Terzopoulos
Produced by Breakthrough Films and Television Production, in association with TVOntario, Access - Knowledge Network, The Education Station and SCN; with the participation of the Canadian Television Fund created by the Government of Canada and the Canadian cable industry, CTF: Licence Fee Program, CAVCO and The Government of Ontario - The Ontario Film & Television Tax Credit; and with the financial participation of the Shaw Children's Programming Initiative through the Dr. Geoffrey R. Conway Fund and the Shaw Television Broadcast Fund.
Melanie (13) has spent every spring weekend she can remember helping out on her family's high volume maple syrup farm in Lanark County, ON. Her days are spent helping out in the forest, shop, processing plant and giving tours. In the evening, she and her two younger sisters like to step-dance to the tune of their granddad's fiddle. Amrit (14) of Richmond Hill, ON, is passionate about classical North Indian, or "Kathak" dance. Her Indian heritage is a major part of her life: from food, to music to dance.
The Swap: Melanie has little knowledge of East Indian culture and its various art forms. She enters the exotic world of "Kathak" dance and is challenged to learn a choreographed routine and perform as part of a showcase. Meanwhile, Amrit has her hands full on a farm for the first time. She'll experience a whole new appreciation for syrup through her challenges to snowshoe through the forest and tap a tree and prepare maple syrup the old fashioned way for tour guests.
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- Children and Youth > Canadian YouthYouthful Perspectives
Credits
- executive producer
- Ira Levy
- Peter Williamson
- supervising producer
- Kirsten Scollie
- line production
- Vibika Bianchi
- co-producer
- Tatyana Terzopoulos
- story supervisor
- Paul Kilback
- director
- Daniel Oron
- editor
- Jennifer Essex
- post-production supervisor
- Nahid Islam
- director of photography
- Steve Adamcryck
- Mark Caswell
- audio
- Dave Draper
- Margus Jukkum
- production coordinator
- Kate Kung
- theme music
- Jack Lenz
- Asher Lenz
- score composer
- Jack Lenz
- Asher Lenz
- narrator
- Alisha Morrison
- opening actor
- Kyle Kassardjian
- Hilary Bannister
- post-production coordinator
- Camilla Tod
- assembly editor
- Jay Tipping
- assistant editor
- Jonathan Dowler
- Shane O'Brien MacDonald
- James Hebbard
- offline post-production facility
- Breakthrough Post Inc.
- post-audio production
- Jeremy MacLaverty
- post-audio mix
- Jeremy MacLaverty
- post-production facility
- Bullet Digital Post
- online editor
- Patrick Eves
- colourist
- Jason Cook
- graphics creator
- Loop Media Inc.
- closed captioning
- Panorama Captioning Services Inc.
- production assistant
- Jason Kim
- finance
- Michael McGuigan
- production accounting
- Michelle Trenchard
- Ans Amsen
- Derek Barbour
- legal counsel
- Nghia Nguyen
- contracts administrator
- Alicja Wicinski
- publicity
- Jill Spitz
- development manager
- Sarah Adams
- manager of new media
- Dorothy Vreeker
- assistant to the producer
- Sarah Morison
- insurance
- Jones Brown and Associates Ltd.
- financial services
- Daniel McMullen
- Morris Gluck
- development for television
- Heather Findlay
- Kirsty Nordal
- Ingrid Moe
- Tatyana Terzopoulos
- executive
- Patricia Ellingson