My Brand New Life - Ballet Dancer/Hockey Player

200423 min 33 secFilm: Documentary

Direction: Robbie Hart

Production: Ina FichmanPierre Lapointe (National Film Board of Canada)Sally Bochner

Produced by Productions La Fête Inc. in co-production with the National Film Board of Canada, in association with YTV, TFO and Discovery Kids, with the participation of the Canadian Television Fund, with the assistance of Québec Film and Television Tax Credit and the Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit.

Pasquale is a devoted hockey player who hates ballet. Nikita, an accomplished ballet and ballroom dancer, has never played hockey. Both boys bravely launch into each other's discipline, with unexpected success. Pasquale discovers that ballet involves skills he would not have imagined, and Nikita manages to score during a hockey geme. Both boys come out of their experience with respect for what the other does.

Subject categories

  • Dance > Ballet
  • Children and Youth > Canadian Youth
  • Sports and Leisure - Winter Sports > Hockey

Credits

executive producer
Ina Fichman
director
Robbie Hart
producer
Ina Fichman
Pierre Lapointe
co-producer
Sally Bochner
director of photography
Rénald Bellemare
editor
Jean-Marie Drot
theme song
Skye Sweetnam
theme song - performer
Skye Sweetnam
original music composer
Amerigo D'Amico
Mitch Magonet
production manager
Amy Webb
Alexandra Gunter
researcher
Maureen Marovitch
sound
Chantal Rhéaume
production assistant
Jean-Noël Bodo
post-production creative consultant
Jean-Louis Côté
post-production services
Aprilmay Entertainment
sound design
Jason Levy
Bruno Martel
opening visuals
Alex Gelehrter
online editor
Joseph Bohbot
post-production coordinator
Erin Whittaker
assistant on-line editor
Daniel Schioler
translation
Sophie Bissonnette
subtitles
Sophie Bissonnette
legal counsel
Marie-José Harel
development associate
Lorne Price
controller
Nadia Vallée
production accounting
Linda Boucher
development accounting
Sylvie Boulé