NFB Collection
Standing Tall
201523 min 52 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Marie Ka
Production: Dominic Desjardins
Script: Marie Ka
Produced by the National Film Board of Canada with the collaboration of Ici Radio-Canada.
Three French-speaking women from Senegal, Mexico and Belgium take a look at their experience immigrating to Vancouver, where they raise their children alone. With strength and resilience, these women take up the challenge of rebuilding their lives to provide a “new world of possibility” for their children, while seeking to make their place in Canadian society.
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Subject categories
- Women - Portraits > Immigrant Experience
- Families > Immigrant ExperienceSingle-parent Families
- Cultural Diversity and Multiculturalism > Immigration Experience and Social Adjustment
- Francophone Communities > Western Canada
Credits
- participant
- Marie Ka
- Virginie Kip
- Cécilia Lopez Martinez Cairo
- writer
- Marie Ka
- director
- Marie Ka
- producer
- Dominic Desjardins
- script consultant
- Luc Bourdon
- production manager
- Christine Beaudry
- Carmen Kerr
- director of photography
- Martin Berthiaume
- Chris Oben
- Scott Wilson
- location sound
- Stephane Bourgeault
- editing
- Jean Baillargeon
- original music
- Daniel Toussaint
- original soundtrack
- Daniel Toussaint
- sound editing
- Daniel Toussaint
- foley
- Lise Wedlock
- foley recording
- Geoffrey Mitchell
- narration
- Marie Ka
- set director
- Natalie Hamel-Roy
- narration recording studio
- Studio Amplitude Postproduction
- transcription
- Louise Larouche
- translation
- Vision Globale
- Centre national de sous-titrage
- subtitles
- Vision Globale
- Centre national de sous-titrage
- online editing
- Yannick Carrier
- sound mixing
- Geoffrey Mitchell
- titles
- Cynthia Ouellet
- marketing manager
- Karine Sévigny
- administrator
- Geneviève Duguay
- studio manager
- Alexandrine Torres de Figueiredo
- technical coordinator
- Daniel Claveau
- executive producer
- Dominic Desjardins