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2024 1 h 8 min
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How do we teach our boys to become better men?

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Set against the backdrop of his son’s first five years of life—from cooing infant to hurricane of a boy—filmmaker Justin Simms looks at modern masculinity through the lens of fatherhood as he asks an increasingly urgent question: How do we teach our boys to be better men?

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  • writer
    Justin Simms
  • director
    Justin Simms
  • editor
    Andrew MacCormack
  • cinematography
    Cody Westman
    Andrew MacCormack
    Duncan de Young
    Marcia Connolly
  • original music
    Ian Foster
  • sound design
    Paul Steffler
  • story consultant
    Wanda Nolan
  • producer
    Liz Cowie
    Rohan Fernando
  • additional cinematography
    Lian Morrison
    Justin Simms
  • location sound recording
    Don Ellis
    Michelle LaCour
    Neil McIntyre
    Mark Neary
    Matthew Thomson
    Josh White
    Scott Yates
  • narrator
    Justin Simms
  • off-camera performer
    Brian Marler
    Alison Woolridge
  • production manager
    Lynn Andrews
  • archival research
    Marika Lapointe
  • additional research
    Maxine Krawczyk
    Wanda Nolan
    Tamara Segura
    Kelly Shiers
  • transcription
    Lisa Clarke
  • foley
    Hilary Thomson
  • foley recording
    Matthew Thomson
  • production supervisor
    Roz Power
  • technical coordinator
    Daniel Lord
    Christopher MacIntosh
  • graphic design
    Alain Ostiguy
  • motion design
    Alain Ostiguy
  • online editor
    Yannick Carrier
  • digital editing technician
    Patrick Trahan
    Pierre Dupont
    Albert Kurian
  • re-recording
    Isabelle Lussier
  • senior production coordinator
    Sarah MacLeod
  • associate producer
    Kelly Davis
  • line producer
    Geneviève Duguay
  • studio administrator
    Leslie Anne Poyntz
  • marketing manager
    Jamie Hammond
  • publicist
    Jennifer Mair
  • marketing coordinator
    Jolène Lessard
  • legal counsel
    Peter Kallianiotis
  • executive producer
    Nathalie Cloutier
    Rohan Fernando
    John Christou
    Annette Clarke

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