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Mes Prairies, mes amours

La cinéaste Chelsea McMullan nous invite à une odyssée musicale et poétique à travers champs. Portrait intimiste de l'artiste transgenre Rae Spoon, ce long métrage documentaire est aussi poignant et introspectif que ses chansons. S’exécutant tantôt dans des mises en scène recherchées, tantôt dans de simples haltes routières, iel se raconte devant les paysages grandioses des Prairies canadiennes. Sélection officielle à Sundance 2014.
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La cinéaste Chelsea McMullan nous invite à une odyssée musicale et poétique à travers champs. Portrait intimiste de l'artiste transgenre Rae Spoon, ce long métrage documentaire est aussi poignant et introspectif que ses chansons. S’exécutant tantôt dans des mises en scène recherchées, tantôt dans de simples haltes routières, iel se raconte devant les paysages grandioses des Prairies canadiennes. Sélection officielle à Sundance 2014.

Music Sexuality and Reproduction All subjects
Arts Des films pour la Fierté All channels
  • direction
    Chelsea McMullan
  • participation
    Rae Spoon
  • producer
    Lea Marin
  • photography directing
    Maya Bankovic
    Derek Howard
  • editing
    Avrïl Jacobson
  • executive producer
    Silva Basmajian
  • original music
    Rae Spoon
  • score
    Rae Spoon
  • art direction
    Leanne Mackay
  • production supervision
    Mark Wilson
  • None
    Kate Vollum
    Noémie Lafrance
    Rafael Mishan
    Sue Bristow
    Emmanuel Plougoulm
    Cole J. Avis
    Liz Johnston
    Sonja Ahlers
  • supplementary footage
    Alejandro Coronado
    Catherine Lutes
  • location sound
    Alex Unger
  • visual research
    Kathie McKenna
  • technical edit coordinator
    Marcus Matyas
  • editing assistant
    Vanessa Jung
  • administration
    Josiah Rothenberg
  • marketing
    Moira Keigher
  • dancer
    Mairead Filgate
    Meredith Thompson
    Andrew Barley
    Chase Constantino
  • 1st assistant director
    Matthew Greyson
  • 2nd camera assistant
    Daniel Adlam
  • camera trainee
    Dean Senecal
  • steadicam
    Carl Savage
  • chief electrician
    Anthony Smith
    Ryan Hernandez
  • stage hand
    Justin Yaroski
  • digital transfer
    Curry Leamen
  • production assistant
    Anna MacLean
    Chris Niesing
  • additional props
    Amanda Letang
  • sets
    Amanda Letang
  • set construction
    Jeffrey Shouten
  • costume designer
    Loretta Chin
  • on set costumer
    Anne McKay
  • location manager
    Laszlo Uhrik
  • researcher
    Ethan Cole
  • dance consultant
    Hannah Dorozio
  • layout
    Paul Vernon
  • production coordinator
    Heather Phenix
    Jonathan Lloyd
  • animation
    Stephanie Dudley
  • compositing
    Stephanie Dudley
  • animation assistant
    Vivienne AuYeung
  • additional editing
    Lawrence Jackman
  • digital intermediate producer
    Michelle Junee
  • digital intermediate colourist
    Walt Biljan
  • online editing
    Adam Gagnon
  • sound editor
    Jane Tattersall
  • sound editing - assistance
    Claire Dobson
  • sound effects creation
    Kathy Choi
  • sound mixer
    Stephan Carrier
    Graham Rogers
  • title design
    Henriette Kruse Jorgensen
  • titles design
    Henriette Kruse Jorgensen
  • stills photographer
    Nadia Tan
    Colin Smith
  • additional visual research
    Elizabeth Klinck

Education

Ages 13 to 18
Mini-Lessons
Mini-Lesson - My Prairie Home
School subjects
Diversity - Diversity in Communities Family Studies/Home Economics - Relationships Health/Personal Development - Identity Media Education - Documentary Film

Discuss the significance of the opening of the film. How have issues of identity affected Rae’s personal development? In what way(s) does the director use the landscape to symbolize ideas expressed in the film? What are some of the key messages about gender in My Prairie Home? What can be done to support inclusivity in your school? Create a classroom charter of rights that supports equality and distribute it throughout the school.

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