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A Score for Women's Voices
20021 h 26 min 4 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Sophie Bissonnette
Production: Monique SimardMarcel Simard
Script: Sophie Bissonnette
Produced by Les Productions Virage in coproduction with the National Film Board of Canada with the financial participation of Québec : Crédit d'impôt cinéma et télévision - Gestion SODEC; the Canadian Television Fund created by the Government of Canada and the Canadian Cable Industry, CTF : License Fee Program; Astral Media, The Harold Greenberg Fund; SODEC Société de développement des entreprises culturelles - Québec; and Canada : The Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit; with the collaboration of Télé Québec, The Government of Canada through The Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) and TV5 Le monde en français.
Between March and October 2000, millions of people around the world took to the streets to denounce poverty and violence against women. The historic World March of Women was a bold initiative of the Québec Federation of Women and represented a turning point in global solidarity.
Director Sophie Bissonnette invited five filmmakers from around the world to cover the march. She also asked each one to film an innovative project. In Senegal a community battles female genital mutilation through education. In Australia a women's circus teaches survivors of sexual assault to become skilled performers. In India a group of low-caste women mediate domestic disputes in informal women's courts. Native women in Ecuador offer leadership training programs to create women leaders. In the United States, Linda Carney describes why she founded Survival Inc. for poor women in Boston: this wealthy city refused her and her son welfare benefits unless she quit her minimum-wage job.
Set against the backdrop of a song, A Score for Women's Voices ends at the UN, where women deliver 5 million cards signed during the marches. Their goal? To change the world!
Some subtitles.
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Subject categories
- Developing Countries > AfricaIndia, Nepal and PakistanSouth AmericaWomen
- Foreign Countries > Australia and New ZealandUnited States
- Social Issues > Community Projects and AssistanceSocial ChangeViolenceWomen
- Women > Discrimination, Stereotyping and Equal RightsPovertySocial ActionViolence Against Women
- Families > Single-parent Families
Credits
- original concept
- Sophie Bissonnette
- direction
- Sophie Bissonnette
- collaboration
- Anne Laure Folly
- Pat Fiske
- Nicolette Freeman
- Deepa Dhanraj
- Carmen Guarini
- Helene Klodawsky
- editing
- Dominique Sicotte
- sound design
- Catherine Van Der Donckt
- Christian Marcotte
- theme song
- Janet Lumb
- Karen Young
- assistant director
- Nancy Marcotte
- associate producer
- Nicole Lamothe
- producer
- Monique Simard
- Marcel Simard
- script
- Sophie Bissonnette
- director of photography
- Martin Duckworth
- Philippe Lavalette
- Alex Margineanu
- location sound
- Esther Auger
- Claude Hamel
- original music
- Karen Young
- online editing
- Denis Pilon
- re-recording
- Robert Langlois
- computer graphics
- Jean-François Vézina
- production manager
- Nancy Marcotte
- Danielle Champoux
- Kathryn Ruscio Kelly
- research
- Ximena Cruz
- Deepa Dhanraj
- Pat Fiske
- Anne Laure Folly
- Margaret Fombé Fubé
- Carmen Guarini
- Helene Klodawsky
- Caroline Martel
- Margot Nash
- Lisette Quesnel
- foley artist
- Lise Wedlock
- musician
- Francine Martel
- Gustavo Cabili
- Karen Young
- Marc Villemure
- sound engineer
- Jean Lacasse
- Jean-Pierre Limoge
- re-recording of music
- Jean Lacasse
- re-recording of theme song
- Jean-Pierre Limoge
- music - composition
- Gustavo Cabili
- Jorge Reyes
- Gerda Daya Resl
- Les Legroup
- music - interpretation
- Gustavo Cabili
- Jorge Reyes
- Gerda Daya Resl
- Choir of The Escuela de Capacitac...
- Les Legroup
- translation
- Ève Bélanger
- Naima Bendris
- Aoura Bizzari
- Marie-Hélène Bonin
- Madeleine Desnoyers
- Jacqueline E. Fouché
- Dipti Gupta
- Charles Gagnon
- Marcelle Hanna Harb
- Mohammad Imonan
- Nicole Kennedy
- Bouchra Khabchaouy
- Karmela Krieza Jeric
- Marisol Laneuville
- Mozart Firmose Longuefosse
- Akemi Malette
- Zdravka Metz
- Paola Navaro
- David E. Nhabetse
- Nicole Palé
- Adriana Oliveira
- Nuran Ozgur
- Cynthia Palmaria
- Erica Pomerance
- Diya Rajan
- Victor Regalado
- Benjamin Simard-Lachance
- Francisco Van Dun
- Stella Vargas
- subtitles
- Claude Dionne
- NFB Image Postproduction Services
- Danielle Raymond
- Sylvain Desbiens
- Gaspard Gaudreau
- production administration
- Denise DesLauriers
- production administration assistant
- Marie-Christine Guité
- Brigitte Sénéchal
- Lise Lévesque
- technical coordination
- Jean-François Laprise
- Isabelle Fortier
- Nadège Pouyez
- assistant to the producer
- Johanne Bergeron
- production secretary
- Marjolaine Lavoie
- administration
- Jean Brien
- distribution officer
- Joanne Carrière
- broker
- Taillefer Desjardins inc.
- auditor
- Fauteux Bruno Bussière Leewarden
- lawyer
- Marie-José Harel
- Vivianne de Kinder