My Brand New Life - Ming's First Day of School

200323 min 33 secFilm: Documentary

Direction: Jean-Louis Côté

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.

Eleven-year-old Ming, from Halifax, Nova Scotia, has had home-schooling. This means she has never been to school, taken exams or worn a school uniform. For one week in Montreal, Ming will find out what it's like to be in a regular classroom with girls and boys her age. She will do more math than she has ever done, take a test and give a presentation. As Ming discovers some advantages to being in a real school, her classmates weigh the pros and cons of a structured learning environment.

Subject categories

  • Children and Youth > Canadian Youth

Credits

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