Mike Birch: Riding with the Wind

200649 min 32 secFilm: Documentary

Direction: James Gray

Production: Jacques TurgeonIsabelle de Blois (Richard Lavoie Inc.)

Script: Valérie Lavoie

Co-produced by Richard Lavoie Inc. and the National Film Board of Canada with the financial participation of Crédit d'impôt cinéma et télévision - Gestion SODEC, the Canadian Television Fund, SODEC - Société de développement des entreprises culturelles - Québec and the Crédit d'impôt pour film ou vidéo canadien, and with the collaboration of Société Radio-Canada.

A brilliant sailor and a leading figure in the evolution of off-shore competition, James Gray's Mike Birch, Riding with the Wind is a portrait of an appealing and mysterious man.

Subject categories


  • Sports and Leisure - Water Sports > CompetitionsSailing
  • Sports and Leisure > Portraits

Credits


participant
Mike Birch
Réjean Desgagnés
Claude Lapointe
Marc Nadeau
Walter Greene
Laurent Bourgnon
Charlie Capelle
Yves Parlier
Nicolas Raynaud
direction
James Gray
cinematography
James Gray
script
Valérie Lavoie
research
Valérie Lavoie
assistant director
Valérie Lavoie
collaboration with scriptwriting
James Gray
additional photography
Richard Lavoie
Isabelle de Blois
Cimon Charest
Valérie Lavoie
supplementary footage
Réjean Desgagnés
Marc Nadeau
Claude Lapointe
sound recording
Claude Gasser
Pierre Bouchard
Dominique Chartrand
editing
Yves Doyon
online editing
Julie Monette
original music
Éric Pfalzgraf
music recording
Studio du Roi
music mixing
Studio du Roi
musician
Daniel Godro
Éric Pfalzgraf
Sylvain Rodrique
Gilles Sioui
sound editing
Richard Lavoie
Sylvain Brassard
sound mixing
Jean-Pierre Bissonnette
narration
James Gray
translation
James Gray
subtitles
Valérie Lavoie
accounting
Michel Pilette
marketing
Mia Desroches
administration
Johanne Dubuc
administrative support
Colette Allain
Marie-Josée Lavoie
technical coordination
Brigitte Sénéchal
line production
Murielle Rioux-Poirier
producer
Jacques Turgeon
Isabelle de Blois
associate producer
Richard Lavoie