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Men for Sale
20092 h 24 min 33 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Rodrigue Jean
Production: Nathalie Barton (InformAction Films Inc.)Jacques Turgeon (National Film Board of Canada)
Script: Rodrigue Jean
Produced by InformActions Films Inc. in co-production with the National Film Board of Canada with the participation of the Canadian Television Fund, the Québec - Crédits d'impôts cinéma et télévision and the Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit, and with the collaboration of Radio-Canada Television and RDI.
Eleven male sex-trade workers are followed over the course of a year, recounting their struggle to survive alcohol and drug-related addictions, abuse and stigmatization – but most of all, their troubled pasts. Trapped in a vicious circle of prostitution and drugs, they pursue their hardscrabble lives, knowing their prospects for the future are dim. An unflinching portrait with neither voyeurism nor false sympathy, Men for Sale acknowledges those whom society prefers to ignore.
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Subject categories
- Sexuality and Reproduction > Interpersonal RelationshipsProstitutionSexual minorities (2SLGBTQ+ people)
- Social Issues > Masculine IdentityQuebec Society
- Civics/Citizenship > Human Rights
- History and Citizenship Education > Issues in Society Today
Credits
- researcher
- Rodrigue Jean
- Patrick Poisson
- François Tremblay
- writer
- Rodrigue Jean
- director
- Rodrigue Jean
- editing
- Mathieu Bouchard-Malo
- camera
- Mathieu Laverdière
- additional camera
- Dominic Dorval
- Rodrigue Jean
- sound recording
- Lynne Trépanier
- additional sound recording
- Pierre Bertrand
- Jean-Denis Daoust
- Christine Lebel
- Martyne Morin
- music
- Tim Hecker
- assistant director
- Patrick Poisson
- François Tremblay
- production assistant
- Johann Gauthier
- dialogue transcription
- Daphné Bouchard
- Suzanne Beaulieu
- transcription translation
- Jo-Anne Elder
- editing assistant
- Catherine Lauzon-Giroux
- editing technical support
- Isabelle Painchaud
- titles
- Philippe Raymond
- subtitles
- Vision Globale
- online editing
- Denis Pilon
- sound design
- Martin Allard
- dialogue editing
- Marie-Ève Livernoche
- foley
- Jean René Francoeur
- re-recording
- Serge Boivin
- production manager
- Ian Quenneville
- marketing coordinator
- Ian Oliveri
- production secretary
- Laurence Gravel
- production accountant
- Richard Bellerose
- Sébastien Chagnon
- Mélanie Beauregard
- marketing manager
- François Jacques
- marketing manager - assistance
- Karine Sévigny
- administrator
- Johanne Dubuc
- Colette Allain
- Geneviève Duguay
- administrative team
- Nicole Marcoux
- Mirabelle Bélanger
- technical coordinator
- Brigitte Sénéchal
- line production
- Murielle Rioux-Poirier
- producer
- Nathalie Barton
- Jacques Turgeon
Awards
- Best Medium Length or Feature Documentary (ex-aequo with L’encerclement by Richard Brouillette)International Francophone Film Festival in Acadie