Junior (2008)

Directed by

Isabelle Lavigne, Stéphane Thibault

Genre

documentary film

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 36m

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary follows a major junior hockey team in Quebec over one season. It shows the players, coaches, and staff both on and off the ice.

observationalintimatesportsgroundedpatientrevealinglow-keycinéma-vérité

What happens

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. It also won the Sheffield Doc/Fest Audience Award in 2009 The film was shot in Direct Cinema style and follows players, managers, trainers, shareholders, agents and recruiters over the course of an entire season. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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