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enfants du silence, Les
200623 min 33 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Michel Brault
Production: Victor JobinFernand Dansereau
Script: Claude Jutra
This film looks at the world of children with hearing loss and the importance of early diagnosis. With its straightforward, rigorous cinematic style and intimate approach to the subject, the film focuses on the human rather than the technical side of the problem of hearing impairment. It urges parents to be vigilant, because early diagnosis facilitates treatment. In French with English subtitles.
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Subject categories
- Health and Medicine > Babies and ChildrenPhysically Disabled People
- People with disabilities > Children with DisabilitiesHearing impaired
- Children and Youth > Young persons with disabilities
- Technology Education > Communications and Technology
- Media Education > Documentary Film
Credits
- director
- Michel Brault
- images
- Michel Brault
- producer
- Victor Jobin
- Fernand Dansereau
- commentary
- Claude Jutra
- editing
- Claude Jutra
- sound
- Marcel Carrière
- Antoine Pelletier
- sound mixer
- Ron Alexander
- Roger Lamoureux
- narration
- Lucie de Vienne
- music
- Maurice Blackburn
Awards
- Second PrizeMidwest Film Festival - University of Chicago
- Certificate of Merit - Category: Scientific and Educational FilmCork Film Festival