Junior (2008 film)

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Junior
Directed by
Written by
Produced by
StarringBenjamin Breault
Christian Daigle

Éric Dubois
Éric Messier

Ryan-James Hand
François Bouchard
Alexandre Picard-Hooper
Jonathan Duchesneau

Jacques Tremblay




Alex Lamontagne
Ryan Lehr
Gilles Côté
Edited by
Production
company
Release dates
  • September 10, 2008 (2008-09-10) (RIDM)
  • January 28, 2008 (2008-01-28) (Quebec)
Running time
96 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguagesFrench, English

Junior is a 2008 documentary film chronicling a year in the life of Baie-Comeau Drakkar of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League. Co-directed by and and produced by the National Film Board of Canada, the film was named Best Documentary: Society at the Prix Gémeaux and Best Canadian Feature Documentary at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival.[1] It also won the Sheffield Doc/Fest Audience Award in 2009

The film was shot in Direct Cinema style and follows players, managers, trainers, shareholders, agents and recruiters over the course of an entire season.[2][3]

References[]

  1. ^ "Junior". Film Collection. National Film Board of Canada. Retrieved 19 September 2010.
  2. ^ Anderson, Jason (16 April 2008). "Hot Docs". Eye Weekly. Retrieved 19 September 2010.[permanent dead link]
  3. ^ Hewings, Meg (24 January 2008). "The business of hockey". Hour. Archived from the original on 4 April 2008. Retrieved 19 September 2010.

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