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CAPTAIN CANADA Director Juan Morales’s Captain Canada showcases the story of Canadian Paralympian Greg Westlake, as the men’s sledge hockey team captain prepares for the 2018 Winter Paralympics in Pyeongchang. Westlake had both his legs amputated when he was 18 months old due to a congenital defect and made the men’s national sledge hockey team in 2003. But Morales’s relationship with Westlake started when Morales was a high school co-op student in the same facility where the Paralympic team was training. When some of the Paralympians were out of town and the team was short-handed, Morales, a former goalie, was asked to step in and train with the team. The experience of being on the ice with these athletes left an impression on him and when it came time to choose a story for Morales’s second-year multi-camera class project, he chose to showcase Westlake and the team. Captain Canada was a group project made under the mentorship of FCAD professor Joe Recupero. Morales worked with fellow RTA Sport Media students: Julia Le Clair, Carlen Oliveria, Maverick Sleep, Daniel Colangelo and Braden Gibson. The video features an interview with Westlake, intercutting it with on-ice footage of him. The team filmed with two GoPro cameras - one on the sledge itself and the other on Westlake’s helmet. Juan Morales, Julia Le Clair, Carlen Oliveria, Maverick Sleep, Daniel Colangelo, Braden Gibson Second-year sports media Captain Canada Documentary 2017 32