NFB Collection
What If?
20115 min 14 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Noam Gonick
Production: Alicia SmithBonnie ThompsonDavid Christensen
Script: Noam Gonick
Produced by the National Film Board of Canada, in collaboration with the Governor General's Performing Arts Awards Foundation.
Play's the thing at the Manitoba Theatre for Young People.
Ten-year-old William stands at centre-stage, rehearsing an exciting new role - that of Leslee Silverman, the visionary force behind English Canada's only professional young people's theatre.
Silverman observes with her customary wisdom and good humour. Drawing from Winnipeg's rich cultural tradition, she engages young people in the adventure of theatre, fired by the conviction that art belongs to everyone. And she never forgets to play.
Subject categories
- Theater > Children and DramaPerforming ArtsPortraits
- Women - Portraits > Performing Arts
- History and Citizenship Education > Culture and Currents of Thought (1500-present)
- Arts Education > Drama
Credits
- recipient
- Leslee Silverman
- writer
- Noam Gonick
- director
- Noam Gonick
- producer
- Alicia Smith
- Bonnie Thompson
- director of photography
- Brian Rougeau
- production designer
- Taavo Soodor
- picture editor
- Bruce Little
- sound designer
- Bruce Little
- colourist
- Bruce Little
- sound recordist
- Kirby Hammond
- actor
- William Krovats
- background actor
- Jenna Campbell
- Jordan Sankar
- Seth Belmore
- Jayda Faith Koostachin
- production manager
- Aaron Flouresco
- assistant camera
- Pascal Boisvert
- grip
- Bruce Claydon
- Darren Lanoo
- gaffer
- Bruce Claydon
- Darren Lanoo
- production coordinator
- Faye Yoneda
- Ginette D'Silva
- marketing manager
- Kelly Fox
- production supervisor
- Mark Power
- program administrator
- Darin Clausen
- executive producer
- David Christensen