Agency:.Co-produced by Savoury Productions and the NFB with the financial participation of Dairy Farmers of Canada. Study guide available.

Director, Sheila Murphy ; producer, Michael Hendricks, Tamara Lynch ; executive producer, Isobel Marks ; script, Sylvain Guy ; photography, Rénald Bellemare ; sound, Hans Oomes ; editing, Glenn Berman ; sound editing, André Chaput ; re-recording, Louis Hone ; animation, Jane Churchill, Dominique Normand ; music, Neil Smolar.

Cast, Fatuma Kayembe, Philip Le Maistre, Christopher Olscamp, Alexandra Ferber, Jessica Malka, Emmanuel Ouellet, Nadia Raglir, Benjamin Shirinian, Katherine Wheeler, Alain Gabriel, Gayle Garfinkle, Gary Jewell.

Recorded 1995.

The Pressure Zone is a hilarious send-up of the forces that try to shape adolescent minds and bodies. Two mirrors--one promoting the perfect body through a merciless regime of muscle building and dieting, the other through tapping into the "essential essence" via meditation and herbal remedies--vie for loyal customers. As each advertises their vision as the right way, the teens are prodded, taunted and provoked into submission by making them believe that their bodies need improvement, but then the teenagers take control back from the mirrors and accept themselves from the inside out.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Honorable Mention, 1996

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