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Rita Shelton Deverell: Queen Bee
20224 min 52 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Sara Elgamal
Production: Sherien Barsoum (National Film Board of Canada)Jon Montes (National Film Board of Canada)Anita Lee (National Film Board of Canada)
Script: Sara Elgamal
Produced by the National Film Board of Canada in cooperation with the Governor's General's Performing Awards Foundation.
A tribute to an astonishing legacy and a rallying cry for a new generation, director Sara Elgamal’s Queen Bee brings the remarkable work of broadcaster, actor, and thinker Dr. Rita Shelton Deverell into focus. Cinematically shot and with striking use of archives, the film features a monologue from Deverell’s one woman play, Smoked Glass Ceiling, and offers an expansive vision for change.
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Subject categories
- Cultural Diversity and Multiculturalism > Black CommunityWomen
- Women - Portraits > Performing ArtsWriting and Journalism
Credits
- recipient
- Rita Shelton Deverell
- writer
- Sara Elgamal
- director
- Sara Elgamal
- featuring
- Rita Shelton Deverell
- producer
- Sherien Barsoum
- Jon Montes
- executive producer
- Anita Lee
- director of photography
- Shady Hanna
- editor
- Sarah Jane Bachinski
- additional editing
- Nicole Sison
- sound design
- Sacha Ratcliffe
- music
- Sacha Ratcliffe
- production manager
- Dominique Chaumont
- production coordinator
- Melissa Paduada
- Adrianna Marling
- production assistant
- Maria Ramage
- steadicam operator
- Richard Gonzales
- key grip
- Asmaa Er-Rouhi
- gaffer
- Jonathan Glendon
- swing
- Hala Hunny
- technician
- Peter Abbott
- Vince Rotondi
- sound recordist
- Eric Taylor
- wardrobe
- Charlene Akuamoah
- wardrobe assistant
- Nakeimah Williams
- hair
- D'Andra Morris
- makeup artist
- Franceline Kingu
- production supervisor
- Marcus Matyas
- technical assistant
- Q'Mal Labad-Workman
- DIT
- Ashley Mach
- assistant editor
- Pranay Nichani
- titles
- Mélanie Bouchard
- picture post-production
- Nice Shoes
- online editor
- Tricia Hagoriles
- sound post-production
- The Dark Studio
- re-recording
- Grant Edmonds
- manager studio operations
- Mark Wilson
- studio administrator
- Andrew Martin-Smith
- studio coordinator
- Carly Kastner
- legal counsel
- Peter Kallianiotis