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Hart Snider. @hartsnider ‧. ‧. 415 subscribers ‧ 6 videos. Film Editor. Writer/Director of the National Film Board of Canada animated shorts Shop Class and The Basketball Game.
Aug 26, 2023 · In 1983, Hart Snider and his fellow Jewish summer campers in Alberta played in a basketball game that still impacts his life today.
Hart Snider is an author and filmmaker living in Vancouver, British Columbia. He loves hanging out with his family, editing documentaries, reading comics and graphic novels, cheering for the Edmonton Oilers and staying up late.
Nov 1, 2018 · Hart Snider’s lasting hatred for his dingy, cigarette-butt-laden junior-high shop class inspired the Edmonton filmmaker's new animated short.
- Shop Class
- The Origins of Shop Class
- The Making of Shop Class
- Now Available Online
In this dark but funny coming-of-age story, Hart takes us back to one of his more traumatic high school experiences – shop class. He’d been angling for home ec, but was clearly told, “Girls take home ec, boys take shop class.” Young Hart is convinced that the teacher, Mr. P, has it in for him. This was the 80s, before the days of political correctn...
A few years ago, Hart worked on some films that dealt with rugged manly men working in Canada’s north. It got him thinking about how we define and portray masculinity, and what it really meant to him. That thinking brought him back to high school, and Mr. P.’s shop class. The film, being based on a true story, takes a lot of courage to tell. The ev...
It took about three years to complete production on the film. Although Hart has a background in documentary live action, he knew he wanted to use animation for this one. His thinking was that he could “document the everyday reality of taking the class, but also bring to life my stressed-out mental state.” Spoiler: he succeeds. Hart’s other certaint...
Shop Class is one of seven new films that we’re premiering online for the 2018 edition of Get Animated! It’s a sweet film, filled with humour and nostalgia. Anyone who experienced even one awkward moment in high school will appreciate this film… and let’s be honest, who hasn’t? And make sure you watch the whole thing. The ending’s a bit of a… shock...
Hart Snider is a director, writer, editor and story editor who has edited films and series for the CBC, NFB, Paramount Television, Nat Geo, Global, History, Food Network, NBA Canada, and more.
This film follows the trials and tribulations of 14 year old Hart Snider. Instead of the home economics class he wanted to take, he finds himself taking Industrial Arts from the ominous & legendary Mr. P. Hart is nearly suspended over a ukulele incident, which leads him to being alienated by his classmates, and that doesn’t even compare to ...
