Rick Mercer: "Take Action" Figures

20195 min 1 secFilm: Fiction

Direction: Stephen Dunn

Production: Rohan FernandoAnnette Clarke

Script: Rick CurrieGreg Eckler

Produced by the National Film Board of Canada in co-operation with the National Arts Centre and the Governor General's Performing Arts Awards Foundation.

While gift shopping at an “enlightened” toy store, a mother and son are out of luck finding the latest Spider-Man and Transformers toys—because all this eccentric shopkeeper proudly sells are Rick Mercer-themed toys that are meant to inspire the next generation of Canadian youth.

 

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  • Arts > Arts and Artists
  • Media and Communication > Television Broadcasting and Production

Credits


recipient
Rick Mercer
director
Stephen Dunn
writer
Rick Currie
Greg Eckler
cast
Mark Critch
Kathryn Greenwood
Donovan Colan
director of photography
Paul McCurdy
sound recordist
Jim Rillie
production manager
Lynn Andrews
unit production manager
Preston Hudson
1st assistant camera
Darcy Fraser
boom operator
Gerry Jackman
key grip
Adam Vautour
2nd grip
Shawn Snip
gaffer
Rob Eshelby
art direction
Ewen Dickson
props assistant
Greg Baller
hair artist
Charlotte Gavaris
makeup artist
Charlotte Gavaris
cinematographer - promotional materials
Justin Simms
production assistant
Erica Meus Saunders
digital editing technician
Isabelle Painchaud
Pierre Dupont
Patrick Trahan
sound technician
Bernard Belley
titles
Cynthia Ouellet
editing
Bryan Atkinson
online editor
Denis Pilon
sound editing
Graham Colwell
sound mixing
Geoffrey Mitchell
musical composition
David Arcus
translation
Claude Dionne
subtitling
Claude Dionne
director, Business Development, Institutional Program
Julie Huguet
coordinator, Institutional Program
Marcia Seebaran
production supervisor
Roz Power
technical coordinator
Daniel Lord
Christopher MacIntosh
administrator
Leslie Anne Poyntz
senior production coordinator
Cheryl Murgatroyd
producer
Rohan Fernando
executive producer
Annette Clarke
executive director
Michelle van Beusekom