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Forward Pass is the NFL's annual grant across Canada, three $25,000 awards from over 500 submissions. Châteauguay ran first of the three and set the benchmark for the rest.
Forward Pass is the NFL's annual program in Canada, built to make football more accessible across the country. Three programs win a $25,000 grant each year, chosen from over 500 submissions, one from each region. Châteauguay was the Quebec and Atlantic winner. Howard Billings High School lost its football team in 1975 and brought it back nearly fifty years later. The brief was documentation of the cheque presentation. Then it rained hard, and I kept shooting, because a community that turns out anyway is the whole point of the grant. I directed an on-camera interview with the mother who put the school forward and cut the day as a film. It ran first of the three, so it set the benchmark for the other two.
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