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Flight from Darkness
200651 min 21 secFilm: Documentaire
Réalisation: Trevor Grant
Production: Don Copeman (Eleventh Hour Pictures Inc.)Lynne Beck CopemanJoe MacDonald (National Film Board of Canada)Derek Mazur
Scénarisation: Trevor Grant
Produced by Eleventh Hour Pictures in co-production with the National Film Board of Canada in association with CBC Newsworld, with the financial participation of SaskFilm, Rogers Cable Network Fund, the Saskatchewan Film Employment Tax Credit, SCN, Knowledge Network and the Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit, and developed with the support of the CBC TransCanada Development Fund, Prairies.
Percy Paul began his journey in a remote Dene community in northern Saskatchewan, a place where far too often alcohol and violence were close at hand. Despite these circumstances, he excelled in school and sports, eventually proving himself a world class distance runner and gold medallist.
Within a few short years, Percy found himself at Princeton, working alongside one of the world's leading authorities on string theory, black holes and quantum field theory. But all this changed when he turned 28. Percy became an alcoholic in an effort to cope with his extreme mood swings. After an attempt to end his life, he was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Those afflicted with this life-long disorder suffer flights of mania followed by periods of clinical depression, where many try suicide and, tragically, all too many do end their lives.
Flight from Darkness focuses on the life of Percy Paul, from his dazzling rise and fall as a brilliant mathematician to his continuing struggle to prevail over his illness and realize his full potential.
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Catégories de sujets
- Peuples autochtones au Canada (Premières Nations et Métis) > Santé et SécuritéPortraits
- Sciences > Mathématiques
- Psychologie et Psychiatrie > Troubles mentaux
Générique
- écriture
- Trevor Grant
- réalisateur
- Trevor Grant
- producteur
- Don Copeman
- Lynne Beck Copeman
- Joe MacDonald
- basé sur une histoire
- Jason Warick
- monteur
- Chris Bailey
- directeur de la photographie
- Layton Burton
- George Hupka
- composition
- Todd Bryanton
- gérant de production
- Lynne Beck Copeman
- perchiste
- Tim Bender
- assistance à la caméra
- Yadoslav Goutor
- machiniste de plateau
- Yadoslav Goutor
- assistant monteur
- Rob Meier
- recherche
- Jason Warick
- monteur en ligne
- Denis Pilon
- infographie
- Louise Overy
- titres
- Gaspard Gaudreau
- producteur postproduction audio
- Talking Dog Studios
- superviseur du montage sonore
- Rob Bryanton
- montage son
- Evan Rust
- Mike Albers
- Al Sherbin
- Russ Whyte
- administrateur de programme
- Cyndi Forcand
- superviseur de production
- Scott Collins
- coordonnateur de production
- Rolande Petit
- Monique Perron
- agent, marketing
- Leslie Stafford
- producteur exécutif
- Derek Mazur
- Don Copeman
Prix et récompenses
- Meilleur long métrage documentaireAboriginal Film and Video Festival
- Meilleur documentaire socio-politiqueSaskatchewan Showcase