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AS THE CROW FLIES

By Tess GIRARD

Documentary - Completed 2016

Eighteen teenagers. Seven life-changing weeks.

- Year of production
- 2016
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- CANADA
- Languages
- ENGLISH, FRENCH
- Duration
- 84 mn
- Director(s)
- Tess GIRARD
- Writer(s)
- Ryan NOTH
- Cast
- Victoria GEVAERT, Emma FLANAGAN-DELLIPIZZI, Brandon LUCAS SPANO, Rhea GOUR, Brandon MOORE, Maha MINNI, Julia GEVAERT, Christopher HOVERD, Raveen APPUHAMY, Andre CHARRON, Namita SHARMA, Stewart NORVAL, James SHAW, Alexander LEUNG, Michael ANDREWS, Ricardo FERREIRO DA SILVA, Abhay MAHAJAN, Joshua Timothy SHAND, Daniel KONG
- Producer(s)
- Lea MARIN (NFB), Anita LEE (NFBf)
- Synopsis
- 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.”