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Rick Mercer: "Take Action" Figures

2019 5 min
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While gift shopping at an “enlightened” toy store, a mother and son are out of luck finding the latest Spider-Man and Transformers toys—because all this eccentric shopkeeper proudly sells are Rick Mercer-themed toys that are meant to inspire the next generation of Canadian youth.

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While gift shopping at an “enlightened” toy store, a mother and son are out of luck finding the latest Spider-Man and Transformers toys—because all this eccentric shopkeeper proudly sells are Rick Mercer-themed toys that are meant to inspire the next generation of Canadian youth.

Arts Media and Communication All subjects
  • recipient
    Rick Mercer
  • director
    Stephen Dunn
  • writer
    Rick Currie
    Greg Eckler
  • cast
    Mark Critch
    Kathryn Greenwood
    Donovan Colan
  • director of photography
    Paul McCurdy
  • sound recordist
    Jim Rillie
  • production manager
    Lynn Andrews
  • unit production manager
    Preston Hudson
  • 1st assistant camera
    Darcy Fraser
  • boom operator
    Gerry Jackman
  • key grip
    Adam Vautour
  • 2nd grip
    Shawn Snip
  • gaffer
    Rob Eshelby
  • art direction
    Ewen Dickson
  • props assistant
    Greg Baller
  • hair artist
    Charlotte Gavaris
  • makeup artist
    Charlotte Gavaris
  • cinematographer - promotional materials
    Justin Simms
  • production assistant
    Erica Meus Saunders
  • digital editing technician
    Isabelle Painchaud
    Pierre Dupont
    Patrick Trahan
  • sound technician
    Bernard Belley
  • titles
    Cynthia Ouellet
  • editing
    Bryan Atkinson
  • online editor
    Denis Pilon
  • sound editing
    Graham Colwell
  • sound mixing
    Geoffrey Mitchell
  • musical composition
    David Arcus
  • translation
    Claude Dionne
  • subtitling
    Claude Dionne
  • director, Business Development, Institutional Program
    Julie Huguet
  • coordinator, Institutional Program
    Marcia Seebaran
  • production supervisor
    Roz Power
  • technical coordinator
    Daniel Lord
    Christopher MacIntosh
  • administrator
    Leslie Anne Poyntz
  • senior production coordinator
    Cheryl Murgatroyd
  • producer
    Rohan Fernando
  • executive producer
    Annette Clarke
  • executive director
    Michelle van Beusekom

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