Haïti (Québec) (English Version)

Dandavino, Michel, (film producer.). Frappier, Roger, (film producer.). Rached, Tahani, (film director.). Office national du film du Canada (Montreal), (film producer.).

Summary: Haitians make up the largest black community in Quebec: there are over 40,000 of them, the vast majority of them living on the island of Montreal, where they are often the target of prejudice, hostility and contempt. Is this how we welcome them? This documentary film is not an indictment, let alone a trial. However, it does want to catalyze our attention, by having us witness a cruel and dramatic reality: the Haitian community of Montreal, these people from another culture who came here bringing with them their hopes as sorrows, suffers the pain of our rejection. If they left their homeland, it was to flee repression, poverty, and try to find -among us- a better life. Have they found it? Maybe they got a job here and the right to speak and act freely. But are they any better understood, loved and respected?

Record details

Physical Description: 1 streaming video (59 min., 20 sec.) : sound
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Publisher: Montreal : National Film Board of Canada, 2021.
Copyright: ©1985

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General Note:	CatMonthString:february.24 Multi-User. CatMonthString:january.24 CatMonthString:march.24 CatMonthString:june.24
Restrictions on Access Note:	No restrictions.
Creation/Production Credits Note:	Director, Tahani Rached ; producer, Roger Frappier ; executive producer, Michel Dandavino ; camera, Jacques Leduc, Jean-Pierre Lachapelle, Alain Dostie ; sound, Claude Beaugrand, Thierry Morlaas ; editing, Babalou Hamelin ; sound editing, Claude Langlois ; sound mix, Hans Peter Strobl.
Participant or Performer Note:	Narration, Dany Laferrière.
Type of Computer File or Data Note:	Streaming video.
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:	Recorded 1985.
System Details Note:	Mode of access: Internet. Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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Issuing Body Note:	Made available online by publisher.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on online resource; title from title screen (National Film Board of Canada, viewed 2024-06-01).