Company: Les Productions du Rapide-Blanc
Country: CANADA
Section: OLYMPIC GAMES – OLYMPIC SPIRIT
Discipline: Synchronized swimming
Year: 2016
Director: Jérémie Battaglia
Editing: Alexandre Lachance
Photo: Jérémie Battaglia
Soundtrack: Vincent “Freeworm” Letellier
Producer: Sylvie Van Brabant
Time: 78 min
Synopsis
Strength. Stamina. Sequins. The documentary looks beyond the Canadian synchronized swimming team the beauty, to focus on the brawn it takes to be an Olympic athlete. With unprecedented access to the team and their trainer, it focuses on this determined, strong and hard working group of women in their quest to make it to the Olympics through the most gruelling year of their lives. From Montreal to Bratislava, Kazan and Puerto Rico, battling eating disorders, dislocated knees and crushing losses, these girls never give up. And more importantly, they never stop smiling.