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As the Crow Flies

Directed by Tess Girard
Canada, 2016 (documentary, 84 minutes, colour, English)
Also known as "L'envol"
As the Crow Flies
Image: © National Film Board of Canada
Video (National Film Board of Canada)
Video (National Film Board of Canada) [French]

Film Description:
"Eighteen teenagers. Seven life-changing weeks. Every summer, the Royal Canadian Air Cadets offers its top cadets the chance to participate in an elite flight-training camp. As the Crow Flies follows a group of these young men and women as they undergo seven weeks of training to get their pilot's license in an intense program that normally takes six to eight months. Casting an especially affectionate and empathetic eye on her female subjects, filmmaker Tess Girard—herself a graduate of the program—creates a unique and intimate portrait of an extraordinary, yet also very recognizable, group of 17-year-olds as they come of age. As one cadet says, the program is 'not only learning about flying, but also about how intricate everything is.' As the Crow Flies provides an insider's view of the rigours of the camp in its beautifully observed story about a rite of passage."
-- National Film Board of Canada (source)

Film Credits (partial):
Written by: Tess Girard
Produced by: Lea Marin, Anita Lee
Participants: Michael Andrews, Raveen Appuhamy, Andre Charron, Emma Flanagan-Dellipizzi, Rhea Gour, Julia Gevaert, Victoria Gevaert, Christopher Hoverd, Daniel Kong, Alexander Leung, Abhay Mahajan, Maha Minni, Brandon Moore, Stewart Norval, Joshua Timothy Shand, Namita Sharma, James Shaw, Ricardo Ferreiro Da Silva, Brandon Lucas Spano
Cinematography: Tess Girard
Film Editing: Ryan Noth
Music: Paul Aucoin, Snowblink
Production Company: National Film Board of Canada / Office national du film du Canada
(sources)

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