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Life Times 538
20051 h 32 min 4 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Céline Baril
Production: Colette Loumède
In 2003-04, exactly 538 students were enrolled at École Pierre-Dupuy, a secondary school in a disadvantaged neighbourhood of Montreal--538 young people struggling to make sense of their lives, seeking guidance from passionate teachers and educators who give their utmost despite limited means. Here, success is measured less in terms of diplomas than in degrees of self-esteem. Filmmaker Céline Baril penetrates the anonymous mass of students labelled "difficult" and introduces us to diverse individuals. Cinéma-vérité style, she records the positive experiences that occur every day at the school. An acurate, perceptive portrait that conveys the enormity of the challenges facing Quebec today in the task of educating the citizens of tomorrow. Neither sentimental nor defeatist, Life Times 538 shows the world of education as it is. A vital counterpoint to the deadwood of received ideas.
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Subject categories
- Social Issues > EducationQuebec SocietySocial Issues
- Children and Youth > Education and School LifeYouthful Perspectives
- Education > School SuccessSecondary EducationSocial Problems
- Health/Personal Development > Careers & Education
- Ethics and Religious Culture > Ethical Values
- History and Citizenship Education > Issues in Society Today
Credits
- director
- Céline Baril
- cinematographer
- Céline Baril
- sound recordist
- Céline Baril
- assistant director
- Marie-Claude Charlebois
- assistant cinematographer
- Marie-Claude Charlebois
- assistant sound recordist
- Marie-Claude Charlebois
- additional sound
- Richard Lavoie
- editing
- Nathalie Lamoureux
- sound editing
- Hugo Brochu
- dialogue editing
- Marie-Ève Livernoche
- online editing
- Denis Pilon
- Denis Gathelier
- titles
- Gaspard Gaudreau
- translation
- Christine York
- subtitles
- Christine York
- technical support - editing
- Ochelle Greenidge
- original music
- Michel F. Côté
- Bernard Falaise
- recording
- Robert Langlois
- mix
- Robert Langlois
- animated sequences
- Nicolas Brault
- participant
- Chanelle Levreault
- Sorya Chim
- Maggie Rochon
- Karine Turner
- Steve Emond
- Julie Whissel
- Stéphanie Yergeau
- Claude Langevin-Bédard
- Benjamin Boulé-Alarie
- Lorraine Dubois
- Marie-Andrel Gustave-Marion
- Isabelle Dion
- Anne Marie Talbot-Fournier
- Sylvain Demers
- Marc Lafleur
- Jonathan Gingras
- Jean-Guy Poupart
- Ariane Lavoie
- Annie Leclaire
- Steve Fink
- Dorothy Chowdhury
- Maryse Patry
- Micheline Chayer
- Mélanie Langlais
- Mathieu Derouin
- Véronique Plaa
- Marc Derome-Inoa
- Étienne Bourdouxhe
- Danny Pineault
- Ramon Candelier
- Daniel Dubé-Denis
- Bruno Lalumière-Pelletier
- Stephanie Curney
- Sophie Caillerez
- Élise Juneau
- Myriam Bouchard
- Dominique Thibault
- Yanick Gaudreault
- Paul-Yvon Larouche
- Véronica Romero-Rosales
- Martin Trudel-Caron
- Raymond Lemaire
- Nathalie Douville
- foley
- Stéphane Cadotte
- Martin Allard
- foley recording
- Luc Léger
- re-recording
- Geoffrey Mitchell
- marketing officer
- François Jacques
- administration
- Colette Brodeur
- Manon Provencher
- administrative staff
- Lysanne Fortier
- Agnès Yang
- Dominique Brunet
- technical coordination
- Richard Cliche
- line production
- Christiane Germain
- production
- Colette Loumède