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Youthful Passions
20081 h 18 min 9 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: André MelançonDany Croussette
Production: Colette Loumède (National Film Board of Canada)Monique Huberdeau (Sherpas Films Inc.)
Script: Anne-Marie Rainville
Produced by Sherpas Films Inc. in co-production with the National Film Board of Canada, with the financial participation of the Canadian Television Fund, Crédit d'impôt cinéma et télévision - Gestion SODEC, SODEC - Société de développement des entreprises culturelles - Québec and the Canadian Film or Video Tax Credit, and with the collaboration of Télé-Québec.
What became of the children André Melançon filmed in 1977 for the hard-hitting documentary Les vrais perdants? Thirty years on, he meets them again and revives the discussion of competition among children by talking to the adolescents of today with director Dany Croussette. The predominant idea is that passion justifies hard training.
Contrasting past and present, the co-directors reveal how the young talents of 1977 have developed and how mentalities have evolved: today's children speak openly and have real dialogues with their teachers. There's still discipline, but motivation is provided by pleasure and praise. This sensitive film invites us to think about ways of embracing competition so that it remains stimulating without being destructive.
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Subject categories
- Education > Child Education
- Children and Youth > Child Rearing and DevelopmentFamily Life
- Families > Child Rearing and DevelopmentParent-Child RelationshipsSociety and the Family
- Social Issues > Family Life
- Family Studies/Home Economics > Adolescent DevelopmentChild DevelopmentParenting
- Health/Personal Development > Human Growth and Development
Credits
- writer
- Anne-Marie Rainville
- researcher
- Anne-Marie Rainville
- director of photography
- Gilbert Lemire
- Pierre Mignot
- Geoffroy Beauchemin
- cameraman
- Hugues Tremblay
- Alain Chevarier
- assistant cameraman
- Jacques F. Bernier
- Bill Walsh
- gaffer
- Marcel Breton
- Jean-François LeGentil
- Christian Muzzard
- best boy
- Maxime Cloutier
- Simon Thériault
- key grip
- Mario Bissonnette
- Frank Develey
- sound
- Stéphane Poulin
- Aurélien Salvy
- Serge Beauchemin
- Pierre Blain
- boom operator
- Annick Fleury
- France Poliseno
- editor
- Avdé Chiriaeff
- assistant editor
- Sacha Sojic
- sound editing
- Éric Leboeuf
- re-recording
- Luc Léger
- computer graphics
- Sojic Brothers Entertainment
- timing
- Secteur 3
- post-production manager
- Sacha Sojic
- production manager
- José Wilson
- production assistant
- Mathias Perronno
- Martin Cloutier
- production secretary
- Éva-Maude Lepage
- production accountant
- Kenny Brown
- marketing officer
- François Jacques
- marketing officer - assistance
- Solen Labrie Trépanier
- administrator
- Manon Provencher
- administrative team
- Dominique Brunet
- Nathalie Cloutier
- technical coordinator
- Richard Cliche
- associate producer
- Christiane Germain
- Maryse Chapdelaine
- director
- André Melançon
- Dany Croussette
- co-producer
- Colette Loumède
- producer
- Monique Huberdeau