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Grace, Milly, Lucy... Child Soldiers (Classroom Length)
201051 min 57 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Raymonde Provencher
Production: Raymonde ProvencherColette Loumède (National Film Board of Canada)Robert Cornellier (Macumba DOC inc.)Patricio HenríquezJohanne Bergeron
Script: Raymonde Provencher
Produced by Macumba DOC Inc. in co-production with the National Film Board of Canada with the participation of the Canadian Television Fund, Crédit d'imôt cinéma et télévision - Gestion SODEC, Crédit d'impôt pour production cinématographique ou magnétoscopique canadienne and the Société de développement des entreprises culturelles - Québec, and with the collaboration of Télé-Québec and TV5.
Over the past twenty years, more than 30,000 Ugandan children have been abducted by rebel troops and forced into in armed conflict. Many of these child soldiers are girls. Grace, Milly Lucy...Child Soldiers explores this little-known reality.
When they return from captivity, girls who were trained to kill and often forced to “marry” their captors must readjust to life within their community. Clinging to their dreams, Grace, Milly and Lucy are trying to restore meaning to their lives and break the silence surrounding the fate of a sacrificed generation.
Combining personal accounts and scenes from daily life, this documentary conjures up the stifled echoes of a painful past and dares to believe that a better future is within reach for these women who are united in a common struggle.
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Subject categories
- Children and Youth > Children's RightsViolence and Child AbuseWar and YouthYouth of the World
- Women > Military ForcesViolence Against Women
- Social Studies > Development/Global Issues
- Media Education > Documentary Film
- Civics/Citizenship > Human Rights
- History and Citizenship Education > Issues in Society Today
Credits
- producer
- Raymonde Provencher
- Colette Loumède
- Johanne Bergeron
- writer
- Raymonde Provencher
- director
- Raymonde Provencher
- editing
- Marina Popova
- Denis Boisvert
- director of photography
- François Beauchemin
- location sound
- Marcel Fraser
- sound editing
- Claude Langlois
- assistant director
- Isabelle Longtin
- research
- Raymonde Provencher
- Isabelle Longtin
- Isabelle-Anne Bélanger
- field research
- Peter Acuch
- Jude M. Rubanga
- additional sound
- Robert Cornellier
- translation
- Peter Acuch
- Charles Olango
- mix
- Luc Léger
- foley
- Claude Langlois
- online editing
- Denis Gathelier
- Françoise Laprise
- on-line technical support
- Martine Forget
- Isabelle Painchaud
- subtitles
- Productions Manitou Inc.
- titles
- Gaspard Gaudreau
- legal advisor
- Lussier & Khouzam
- administrator
- John Chretien
- Manon Provencher
- coordinator
- Mélanie Lasnier
- production manager
- Mélanie Lasnier
- marketing officer
- François Jacques
- marketing officer - assistance
- Émilie Nguyen Ngoc
- technical coordinator
- Richard Cliche
- production coordinator
- Hélène Regimbal
- Dominique Brunet
- administrative assistant
- Lise Lévesque
- associate producer
- Maryse Chapdelaine
- executive producer
- Robert Cornellier
- Patricio Henríquez
- Raymonde Provencher
- executive producer in development
- Yves Bisaillon