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Beautés

2018 23 min
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Le documentaire Beautés, de Christina Willings, examine la vie de cinq enfants qui réinventent le concept de genre, chacun tentant de déterminer ce que signifie pour lui être un humain à part entière.

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Dans un monde qui aime délimiter clairement la place de chacun, quiconque souhaite définir plus largement la notion de genre doit s’armer de courage : il en faut beaucoup, pour comprendre et accepter. Le documentaire Beautés, de Christina Willings, examine la vie de cinq enfants qui réinventent le concept de genre, chacun tentant de déterminer ce que signifie pour lui être un humain à part entière. Revendiquer un genre à soi lorsque tout nous pousse à entrer dans le moule tient du défi, un défi parfois redoutable. Heureusement, famille et amis apportent leur soutien. Des éléments d’animation — images de pieuvres, d’astronautes et autres — flottent librement à l’écran, rassemblant les expériences communes des enfants en magnifiques fantaisies qui célèbrent le pouvoir de l’imagination et de l’autodétermination. Enjoué, maladroit, affectueux et courageux, chacun de ces enfants remarquables a trouvé sa voie vers la liberté et a su donner son sens profond à l’expression «être soi-même».

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    Christina Willings
    Fox Kou Asano
    Bex Mosch
    Milo Santini-Kammer
    Lili Tepperman
    Tru Wilson
    Braden Haggerty
    Richard Neil Dalgleish
    Martine Leclerc
    Kim MacNaughton
    Victor Ghizaru
    Odessa Shuquaya
    Colin Beaudry-Sylvain
    Leon River-Moore
    Marc-André Y. Vidal
    Sitji Chou
    Umedia
  • direction
    Christina Willings
  • producer
    Shirley Vercruysse
  • delegate producer
    Teri Snelgrove
  • photography directing
    Amy Belling
  • editing
    Ileana Pietrobruno
  • original music
    Elysha Zaide
  • production supervisor
    Jennifer Roworth
  • Ronin operator
    Maude Turcot
  • location sound
    Jeff Henschel
    Gaëlle Komàr
  • underwater assistant camera
    Mark Weinhaupl
  • Ronin camera assistant
    Cyril Perrot-Botella
  • chief electrician
    Paolo Malo
    Paul T. Murakami
  • safety diver
    Roberta Cenedese
  • technical coordinator
    Wes Machnikowski
  • production coordination
    Kathleen Jayme
    Justin Mah
    Kristyn Stilling
  • production assistant
    Jess Lee
    Meredith Lewis
    Ariane Lorrain
    Frankie Teardrop
    Bianca Buckingham Yambanis
  • animator
    Elisa Chee
  • colorist
    Andrea Chlebak
  • sound design
    Chris McIntosh
  • sound mixer
    Chris McIntosh
  • transcripts
    Amanda Colquhoun
    Lilly Hamilton
    François Luc Paradis
  • translation
    Gabrielle Lisa Collard
    James Thomas Hughes
  • subtitling
    Zoé Major
  • location photographer
    Véro Boncompagni
    Rosamond Norbury
  • administration
    Carla Jones
  • media relation
    Katja De Bock
  • marketing
    Leslie Stafford
  • executive producer
    Shirley Vercruysse

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