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 Isabelle Lavigne and Stéphane Thibault 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
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Directed by | Isabelle Lavigne Stéphane Thibault |
Written by | Isabelle Lavigne Stéphane Thibault |
Produced by | Johanne Bergeron Yves Bisaillon |
Starring | Benjamin Breault Christian Daigle Michel Morissette Éric Dubois Éric Messier Jean-Pierre Lareau Ryan-James Hand François Bouchard Alexandre Picard-Hooper Jonathan Duchesneau Michel Laroque Jacques Tremblay Pierre Parent Denis Leblanc Marcel Marsolais Patrick Lowe Alex Lamontagne Ryan Lehr Gilles Côté Brian St-Louis |
Edited by | René Roberge |
Production company | National Film Board of Canada |
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Running time | 96 minutes |
Country | Canada |
Languages | French, English |
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]
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