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Between the Solitudes
199249 min 10 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Abbey Jack Neidik
Production: Irene AngelicoKent MartinColin Neale
Script: Josh Freed
Co-produced by D.L.I. Productions and the NFB with the financial assistance of Telefilm Canada, the Société générale des industries culturelles - Québec and the Secretary of State, and in association with CBC and the Société de radio-télévision du Québec.
Journalist Josh Freed takes a personal journey through English-speaking Montréal; its history, its haunts, its characters, and the difficulties and delights experienced in trying to straddle two solitudes. This is a sometimes angry, often funny and always affectionate portrait of a city split along linguistic lines, as seen through the eyes of its English-speaking minority.
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Subject categories
- Cultural Diversity and Multiculturalism > English-French RelationsQuébec
- Politics and Government - Canada > Québec Nationalism
Credits
- director
- Abbey Jack Neidik
- producer
- Irene Angelico
- Kent Martin
- executive producer
- Colin Neale
- Irene Angelico
- associate producer
- Margaux Ouimet
- script
- Josh Freed
- narrator
- Josh Freed
- cinematography
- James Gray
- Zoe Dirse
- sound
- Ismaël Cordeiro
- editing
- Abbey Jack Neidik
- Irene Angelico
- sound editing
- Viateur Paiement
- re-recording
- Hans Peter Strobl
- music
- Yves Laferrière