Producer:
Merit Jensen Carr & Vonnie Von Helmolt
About the Producer:
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<b>Merit Jensen Carr</b>
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For twenty years Merit Jensen Carr has worked with Canada’s foremost writers and directors to produce top quality award winning lifestyle, documentary and dramatic programming through her company Merit Motion Pictures.
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Under Jensen Carr's leadership, Merit Motion Pictures has produced a wide slate of award-winning documentary and dramatic programs which have sold around the world. Jensen Carr is Executive Producer of all productions produced by her company, Merit Motion Pictures, including five seasons of the Gemini Award-winning documentary series, Recreating Eden.
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<b>Vonnie Von Helmolt</b>
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With an international reputation for producing award-winning films, Vonnie Von Helmolt has produced and co-produced a variety of features, television movies, series, documentaries and specials over the last 20 years. Awards include an International Emmy, Canadian Geminis, Manitoba Blizzards, and major international film festival awards in Canada, Europe and Asia. Nominations include US Cable Ace awards, Banff Television Rockies, and numerous international television awards.
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Her dance feature drama Dracula - Pages from a Virgin's Diary, directed by noted auteur Guy Maddin was named one of Canada's Top Ten Feature Films, and made the Village Voice NEW YORK Critics list of the top10 films of 2003, in addition to winning numerous international film festival awards, Geminis, Blizzards and an International Emmy.
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Art Director:
Charles Konowal; Keith Eidse
Film synopsis:
TuTuMUCH follows 9 young dancers behind-the-scenes where they plié and pirouette for coveted spots in an intensive 4 week professional ballet summer program. Leaving behind their families and friends, often for the first time, each girl confronts in her own way the painstaking and sometimes rewarding realities of actually living her dream. TuTuMUCH is a glimpse of how it feels to embark on a career of dance at the age of twelve.
