Zab Maboungou

20214 minFilm: Documentary

Direction: Carmine Pierre-Dufour

Production: Marie-Pier Gauthier (National Film Board of Canada)Louis-Richard Tremblay (National Film Board of Canada)

Script: Carmine Pierre-Dufour

Produced by the National Film Board of Canada in collaboration with the Governor General's Performing Arts Awards Foundation.

Guiding us through the artistic process in reverse, from performance to creation in three vignettes, this portrait of choreographer Zab Maboungou provides insight into the meticulous training and physical strength behind one of her pivotal works: Mozongi. This pioneer of a new contemporary dance movement in Canada reveals herself to us, sharing what ignites her passion for her craft and what drives her to continue.

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Subject categories


  • Cultural Diversity and Multiculturalism > African OriginsWomen immigrants
  • Dance > ChoreographyCompaniesPortraits

Credits


recipient
Zab Maboungou
writer
Carmine Pierre-Dufour
director
Carmine Pierre-Dufour
choreographer and soloist
Zab Maboungou
dancer
Mithra Rabel
Karla Étienne
Marie-Denise Bettez
Gabriella Parson
Fodé Bamba Camara
musician
Elli Miller-Maboungou
Bruno Martinez-Gamiz
director of photography
Marie Davignon
steadycam operator
Hugo Longtin
1st assistant camera
Jeanne Dupuis
sound recordist
Guillaume Daoust
key grip
Martin Renaud
grip
Nicolas Lesage
key gaffer
Hugo Roy
gaffer
Simon Gaudreau
makeup artist
Andie Wisdom-Dawson
assistant makeup artist
Léonie Lévesque-Robert
wardrobe
Charlie Beaudoin
production manager
Véronique Tessier
unit manager
Gabrielle Lapalme
production assistant
Patrick Lefrançois
Auguste Lapensée
editing
Myriam Magassouba
sound design
Luc Bouchard
sound effects engineer
Alexis Farand
online editor
Denis Pilon
re-recording
Shelley Craig
titles
Cynthia Ouellet
translation
MELS
subtitling
MELS
director, Business Development, Institutional Program
Julie Huguet
coordinator, Institutional Program
Marcia Seebaran
administrator
Marie-Andrée Bonneau
production coordinator
Léa Formigli
Isabelle Gatti
Yousra Benziane
technical coordinator
Mira Mailhot
head of production
Marie-Eve Babineau
producer
Marie-Pier Gauthier
executive producer
Louis-Richard Tremblay