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My Brand New Life - Music for Whose Ears
200423 min 33 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Sudz Sutherland
Production: Ina Fichman (Les Productions La Fête Inc.)Pierre 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, Discovery Kids and TFO, with the participation of Canadian Television Fund created by the Government of Canada and the Canadian cable industry, and with the assistance of Québec Film and Television Tax Credit and the Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit.
Ray lives in Scarborough, Ontario, in a South-Asian family where music and dance play an important role. An accomplished dancer and musician, Ray meets Melanie's family in Moncton, New Brunswick, where the Acadian tradition of music and dance is also an important part of life. Both Ray and Melanie have grown up playing an instrument in a traditional way, but for a week, they discover rhythms and melodies from each other's culture. No doubt this will influence their art in new ways.
Subject categories
- Cultural Diversity and Multiculturalism > Asian OriginsIntercultural Relations
- Music > Children and MusicMusical Instruments
Credits
- executive producer
- Ina Fichman
- director
- Sudz Sutherland
- additional directing
- Kaveh Nabatian
- producer
- Ina Fichman
- Pierre Lapointe
- co-producer
- Sally Bochner
- director of photography
- Kaveh Nabatian
- Stanislaw Barua
- editor
- Jean-Marie Drot
- theme song
- Skye Sweetnam
- original music composer
- Amerigo D'Amico
- Mitch Magonet
- production manager
- Amy Webb
- Alexandra Gunter
- researcher
- Bobbi Jo Krals
- sound
- Serge Arseneault
- Marek Piekarzewski
- assistant camera
- Paul Arsenau
- production assistant
- Lynne Surette
- Carlo Vitelli
- post-production creative consultant
- Jean-Louis Côté
- post-production services
- Aprilmay Entertainment
- sound design
- Jason Levy
- Bruno Martel
- additional music
- Jason Levy
- 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