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The Fight for Francophone Rights - Part One - Winning the Case
201556 min 57 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Anne-Marie Rocher
Production: Anne-Marie Rocher (Productions Testa Inc.)Dominic Desjardins (National Film Board of Canada)
Script: Anne-Marie Rocher
Produced by Productions Testa Inc. in co-production with the National Film Board of Canada in collaboration with Groupe Média TFO.
In 1982, when section 23 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms was adopted, the Canadian Constitution gave linguistic minorities the right to be educated in their own language. Yet, as francophone minorities outside Quebec soon came to realize, infrastructures needed for an education in French were lacking or totally nonexistent.
Groups of parents decided to launch legal battles to force provincial governments to recognize and respect their rights. The three-part documentary series The Fight For Francophone Rights looks at six of these battles. Through interviews with the players involved, director Anne-Marie Rocher spotlights the issues that have pushed francophones to commit to a long fight that many considered a lost cause. If the infrastructures needed to transmit culture, language and history are lacking, inadequate or nonexistent, what does the future hold for francophone minorities?
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Subject categories
- Francophone Communities > French Language and EducationMinorities
- Diversity > Diversity in Communities
- History and Citizenship Education > Issues in Society Today
- Social Studies > Law
Credits
- participant
- Michel Bastarache
- Paul Dubé
- Stéphane André Dubé
- Caleb Léo Dubé-Laramée
- David King
- Jean-Claude Mahé
- Angéline Martel
- Coralie Boudreau
- Stanley Boudreau
- Lianne Boudreau Maltais
- Mila Boudreau Maltais
- Dominic Boudreau Maltais
- Glenda Doucet-Boudreau
- John Rafuse
- Marie-Claude Rioux
- Jean-Louis Robichaud
- writer
- Anne-Marie Rocher
- director
- Anne-Marie Rocher
- consultant
- Michel Bastarache
- Pierre Foucher
- director of photography
- François Vincelette
- sound
- Mélanie Gauthier
- editor
- Petra Valier
- opening sequence
- Costa Leclerc Design Inc.
- original music
- Jean Derome
- producer
- Anne-Marie Rocher
- Dominic Desjardins
- writing consultant
- Solange Lapierre
- research consultant
- Solange Lapierre
- visual research
- Claire Bourbonnais
- Louise Philippe
- assistant camera
- Martin Landry
- digital transfer
- Martin Landry
- production manager
- Doris Lapierre
- assistant editor
- Ai Rei Dooh-Tousignant
- Amanda Terfloth
- Andrea Ziedenberg
- sound editor
- Daniel Toussaint
- foley artist
- Lise Wedlock
- foley recordist
- Geoffrey Mitchell
- musician
- Jean Derome
- Guido Del Fabbro
- Lévy Bourbonnais
- Dany Nicolas
- Normand Guilbeault
- Pierre Tanguay
- music recording
- Robert Langlois
- music mixing
- Robert Langlois
- narrator
- Julie Lemieux
- narration writer
- Sophie Perceval
- Anne-Marie Rocher
- online editor
- Serge Verreault
- graphic design
- Cynthia Ouellet
- titles
- Cynthia Ouellet
- mixer
- Serge Boivin
- subtitles
- Vision Globale
- translation
- Joshua Beitel
- archive digitization
- Mélanie Gauthier
- associate producer
- Zabi Yaqeen
- legal advisor
- Zabi Yaqeen
- Dominique Aubry
- line production
- Renée de Sousa
- assistant accountant
- Marie-Rose Monceaux
- executive producer
- Anne-Marie Rocher
- Dominic Desjardins
- marketing manager
- François Jacques
- administrator
- Geneviève Duguay
- studio manager
- Alexandrine Torres de Figueiredo
- technical coordinator
- Daniel Claveau