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The Engagement
199451 min 47 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Gilles Blais
Production: Colette BlanchardJacques Vallée
The Why Not Us troupe of actors consists of seven intellectually challenged people with a passion for theatre. Performing gives them the courage to break out of their isolation. The video follows the troupe to France, where they are chosen to represent Québec at the Fifth European Festival for Mentally Disabled Artists and records the trip home where a bigger drama lies in store: the love story of troupe members André and Anne-Marie. An exuberant and daring piece of cinéma vérité, The Engagement is about people who challenge life and win.
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Subject categories
- Theater > Amateur TheatreCompanies and PerformancesDrama Festivals
- People with disabilities > Artists with DisabilitiesInterpersonal RelationshipsLeisure ActivitiesPeople with Mental Illness or Intellectual Disabilities
- Foreign Countries > France
Credits
- director
- Gilles Blais
- producer
- Colette Blanchard
- Jacques Vallée
- camera
- Roger Rochat
- sound
- Diane Carrière
- Yves Gendron
- Marie-France Delagrave
- Ismaël Cordeiro
- editing
- Camille Laperrière
- sound editing
- Marc Hébert
- re-recording
- Jean-Pierre Joutel
- Serge Boivin
- music
- Michel Rivard
- participation
- André Poirier
- Bobby Étienne
- Lisette Bélanger
- Gisèle Bouchard
- Serge Maillé
- Françoise Godel
- Colette Racine
- Anne-Marie McClatchie