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Synopsis: Vancouver-based voice artist Ashleigh Ball has been the voice of numerous characters in classic cartoons such as Care Bears, Strawberry Shortcake, Cinderella and more. When Ashleigh was hired to voice Apple Jack and Rainbow Dash for Hasbro's fourth series to use the My Little Pony name - My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic - she had no idea she would become an Internet phenomenon and major celebrity to a worldwide fan-base of grownups. Bronies are united by their belief in the show's philosophy. This documentary gives an inside view of the Pony fan-world, and an intimate look at the courage it takes to just be yourself...even when that means liking a little girls' cartoon.
Genre: Documentary
Director(s): Brent Hodge
Production: Abramorama Entertainment
  4 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.6
Rotten Tomatoes:
80%
NOT RATED
Year:
2014
79 min
Website
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that makes her a character.

Rainbow Dash...

my, what an ego!

She'll never get

into the Wonderbolts,

Because the Wonderbolts

are a team situation.

There's no "I" in "team."

Rarity...

Element of generosity...

to a fault.

She has to get over that.

She has to learn from that.

And then we get to Pinkie Pie,

party animal extraordinaire.

Off into left field

all the time,

but still, when somebody

needs to be picked up,

when someone is feeling sad,

she's there every time.

Each individual character

is so well rounded

within an archetype

of personality,

so people can see themselves

as a Rainbow Dash,

a Rarity,

or an Applejack.

That is the basis

of excellent storytelling.

Don't think of it as

six little ponies in Ponyville.

Think of it as six friends

learning from each other.

It just happens to be wrapped up

in a package of pastel ponies

that's animated well.

This is a show for kids,

but it doesn't wallow

in that point.

I'm just a guy who happens

to like a TV show.

I love My Little Pony.

I love what it does,

I love the message it sends,

and I want to be a part of it,

and I want to be able

to play in that universe.

We're suppose to chug beer,

ride motorcycles,

be degrading to women,

and like explosions.

That's what's engrained

in our brains

from the minute you're born

and put into a blue crib.

Well, I like what I like.

I don't need society

to tell me what I like,

and that's all there is to it.

Ei-ei-o, and here it goes!

As Twilight Sparkle

would say,

"We must science this

immediately!"

About a year ago,

the Brony Phenomenon

sort of fell into our laps,

and as soon as I heard about it,

I thought,

"Somebody needs to study this."

"Fandom" is a term that's used

for the community,

and in general,

people usually look at fandoms

with kind of a little bit

of a, like,

"These people

need to get a life."

Well, in fact, actually,

where does the term "fan"

come from?

"Fanatic."

You know it could be,

um, the Carolina Panthers.

It could be, um, Star Trek.

Uh, it could be

My Little Pony...

Oprah.

It could be Oprah.

It could be anything.

Our Bronies

ranged from 14 to 57,

with the average age

was around 21 years of age.

Then there's

the question of gender.

We usually ran around

85% male and 15% female.

Some female Bronies

like to be called Bronies,

some like to be called

Pegasisters.

And we question

if that 15% female,

how much of those are Bronies

because they have

a Brony boyfriend.

Hmm-hmm. Yep.

Bronies score lower

in neuroticism.

Neuroticism is sort of like

a tendency...

and I've sort of wrote

it's a tendency

to experience negative emotions

like anger, anxiety,

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Brent Hodge

Brent Hodge (born July 9, 1985) is a Canadian-New Zealander documentary filmmaker and entrepreneur. He is best known for his documentaries I Am Chris Farley, A Brony Tale and The Pistol Shrimps. He has been nominated for six Leo Awards for his documentary movies Winning America, What Happens Next? and A Brony Tale, winning one for A Brony Tale in 2015. He was nominated for two Shorty Awards under the "director" category in 2014 and 2015 for his work on The Beetle Roadtrip Sessions and A Brony Tale. Hodge also won a Canadian Screen Award in 2014 for directing The Beetle Roadtrip Sessions with Grant Lawrence.The documentary The Pistol Shrimps (2016), follows a LA-based female basketball team, the Pistol Shrimps — including actress Aubrey Plaza and founder Maria Blasucci (Drunk History) — who come together for weekly matches filled with trash-talking, hard-fouling, wisecracking action. The documentary was co-produced with Warrior Poets and Morgan Spurlock as executive producer. The documentary won a Founders Award at Michael Moore's Traverse City Film Festival in July 2016. The film is distributed by NBC's subscription streaming service, Seeso and available online. Hodge directed I Am Chris Farley in 2015 with Derik Murray of Network Entertainment. The documentary is based on the life of comedian actor Chris Farley and features interviews with numerous actors, comedians and others who worked with Farley during his career. The film was long listed for an Academy Award.In 2014, Hodge released his critically acclaimed documentary A Brony Tale. It delves into the world of the teenage and adult fans of the television show My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (called "bronies") through the eyes of musician and voice actress Ashleigh Ball on her trip to the 2012 BronyCon.He has also done corporate work for Time magazine, CBC Music, Tourism Alberta, and National Film Board of Canada (for the movie Hue: A Matter of Colour), as well as technology startups Uber, Hootsuite and Steve Russell's analytics startup Prism Skylabs. Hodgee Films partnered with Morgan Spurlock in 2014 when Spurlock picked up the documentary A Brony Tale for theatrical distribution, under his "Morgan Spurlock Presents" label, a partnership between Warrior Poets, Virgil Films and Abramorama. A Brony Tale was the first film released under this label. The company worked with Spurlock again on the web series Consider the Source, also partnering with Disney's Maker Studios. more…

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