NFB Collection
Thin Dreams
198620 min 38 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Susie Mah
Production: Micheline Le GuillouGerry RogersKathleen ShannonChantal Bowen
Script: Susie Mah
One of the films made by young women participating in a training program sponsored by the Secretary of State's International Youth Year Secretariat and Studio D of the National Film Board. The film is a look at how young women in high school feel about their bodies, and how their self-images are affected by North American society's obsession with thinness.
Availability
Subject categories
- Psychology and Psychiatry > AdolescentsEmotional Life
- Food and Food Industries > Diet and Nutrition
- Children and Youth > Health and Safety
Credits
- director
- Susie Mah
- script
- Susie Mah
- producer
- Micheline Le Guillou
- Gerry Rogers
- executive producer
- Kathleen Shannon
- associate producer
- Chantal Bowen
- cinematography
- Véronique Lehouck
- sound
- Aimée Leduc
- sound editing
- Aimée Leduc
- editing
- Sibulelo Phakisi
- re-recording
- Shelley Craig