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The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam
20031 h 28 min 5 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Ann Marie Fleming
Production: Ann Marie Fleming (Long Tack Film Inc.)Svend-Erik Eriksen (National Film Board of Canada)Ruth Vincent (Long Tack Film Inc.)Bruce Alcock (Long Tack Film Inc.)Rina Fraticelli (National Film Board of Canada)
Script: Ann Marie Fleming
Produced by Long Tack Film Inc. in co-production with the National Film Board of Canada.
Long Tack Sam was an internationally renowned Chinese acrobat and magician. He overcame isolation, poverty, cultural and linguistic barriers, extreme racism and world wars to become one of the most successful vaudeville acts of his time. His showmanship was unrivalled, yet he refused to appear in movies because of the way Chinese were portrayed at the time.
Why don't we know anything about him? Filmmaker Ann Marie Fleming travels the globe searching for the story of ther great-grandfather, the cosmopolitan Long Tack Sam. To unravel the mystery of a man she knows nothing about, she turns to family, friends, acrobats and magicians. Their anecdotes and memories, interwoven with gorgeous animated archival material, paint a visually stunning portrait of a fascinating individual, a particular world at a particular time.
A celebration of the spirit of Long Tack Sam's magic and art, this richly textured first person road movie is an exhilarating testament to his legacy and a prismatic tour through the 20th Century.
It all begins in a small village in China...
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Subject categories
- Arts > Performing Arts
- Theater > Performing ArtsPortraits
Credits
- writer
- Ann Marie Fleming
- director
- Ann Marie Fleming
- producer
- Ann Marie Fleming
- Svend-Erik Eriksen
- executive producer
- Ruth Vincent
- Bruce Alcock
- Ann Marie Fleming
- Rina Fraticelli
- editor
- Ann Marie Fleming
- Ileana Pietrobruno
- music composer
- Patric Caird
- cinematographer
- Ann Marie Fleming
- animation services
- Global Mechanic
- production services
- Global Mechanic
- animation supervisor
- Bruce Alcock
- animation
- Nathaniel Akin
- Bruce Alcock
- Cesare Battista
- Hannah Cho
- Mark Cutler
- Ted Dave
- Hillary Denny
- Iain Gardner
- Ian Godfrey
- Scott Kiborn
- Ruby Li Long
- Ceile Prowse
- Patrick Siemer
- Tim Stuby
- Ted Tozer
- Jorge Veloso
- Younger Yang
- illustrations
- Nathaniel Akin
- Bruce Alcock
- Cesare Battista
- Hannah Cho
- Mark Cutler
- Ted Dave
- Hillary Denny
- Iain Gardner
- Ian Godfrey
- Scott Kiborn
- Ruby Li Long
- Ceile Prowse
- Patrick Siemer
- Tim Stuby
- Ted Tozer
- Jorge Veloso
- Younger Yang
- colouring
- Nathaniel Akin
- Bruce Alcock
- Cesare Battista
- Hannah Cho
- Mark Cutler
- Ted Dave
- Hillary Denny
- Iain Gardner
- Ian Godfrey
- Scott Kiborn
- Ruby Li Long
- Ceile Prowse
- Patrick Siemer
- Tim Stuby
- Ted Tozer
- Jorge Veloso
- Younger Yang
- design
- Nathaniel Akin
- Bruce Alcock
- Cesare Battista
- Hannah Cho
- Mark Cutler
- Ted Dave
- Hillary Denny
- Iain Gardner
- Ian Godfrey
- Scott Kiborn
- Ruby Li Long
- Ceile Prowse
- Patrick Siemer
- Tim Stuby
- Ted Tozer
- Jorge Veloso
- Younger Yang
- comics designer
- Julian Lawrence
- sound design
- MX Solutions Inc.
- voice editor
- Dan Gagnon
- effects editor
- Dan Gagnon
- sound mixer
- Shawn Pierce
- music mixer
- Shawn Pierce
- musician
- Coco Alcorn
- Doug Balfour
- David Bernstein
- Miles Black
- Graham Boyle
- Tom Colclough
- Dennis Esson
- Mark Ferris
- Deanna Gestrin
- Miles hill
- John Payne
- Bill Runge
- Robbie Steininger
- Ron Thompson
- Brad Turner
- Cameron Wilson
- music - performance
- Silk Road Music
- music performer
- Feng Jun Wang
- Jian Ming Pan
- Qiu Xia He
- Rong Jun
- André Thibault
- lyrics
- Patric Caird
- Ann Marie Fleming
- Feng Jun Wang
- Qiu Xia He
- Rong Jun
- voice
- Bill Meilen
- Alessandro Juliani
- narrator
- Ann Marie Fleming
- voice recording
- Wayne Kozak Studios
- assistant editor
- Ted Tozer
- second assistant editor
- Bethany Handfeld
- executive consultant
- Peggy Case
- script consultant
- Michael Gross
- production manager
- Elizabeth Murray
- Tina Ouellette
- production co-ordinator
- Melissa Riley
- assistant to the producer
- Glace W. Lawrence
- Ceile Prowse
- clearances
- Julie Burtinshaw
- Judith Downes
- Angela Grams
- Elizabeth Klinck
- Stanley Ottenstein
- Melissa Riley
- production accounting
- Fion Yung
- legal consultant
- Ori Kowarsky
- scanning
- Zachery Longboy
- Tammie Yamada
- video digitizing
- Brendan Woollard
- colour timer
- Gary Shaw
Awards
- Award for Best DocumentaryFilm Festival
- Best Documentary Feature AwardNewport Beach Film Festival
- Award for Best Feature DocumentaryInternational Film Festival
- Bronze Plaque - Category: Humanities International Film and Video Festival