Agency - English program:.Animation Studio.

Director, Iriz Pääbo ; original music, Iriz Pääbo ; sound design, Iriz Pääbo ; sound editing, Geoffrey Mitchell ; re-recording, Shelley Craig ; digital imaging specialist, Susan Gourley, Pierre Plouffe ; executive producer, David Verrall ; producer, Michael Fukushima.

Recorded 2008.

HA'Aki is a short abstract-impressionist film in which the animation and the music were made simultaneously in an organic process of symbiotic creativity. Filmmaker Iriz Pääbo tells the highly subjective story of a complete hockey game using a new cinematic vocabulary she calls "animbits." Pääbo readily admits she is not the biggest fan of "Canada's national game," so the great, though highly underappreciated NHL stalwart of the '60s and '70s, Eric Nesterenko, was her hockey muse in this artistic journey. HA'Aki is a lyrical and wonderfully unorthodox interpretation of hockey as played in the mind of a lyrical and wonderfully unorthodox animation artist. A film without words.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Jury's Special Mention, 2008 Jury Special Mention, 2009 Golden Nica- with a cash prize of € 10 000, 2009

Description based on online resource; title from title screen (National Film Board of Canada, viewed 2023-08-10).