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They Think I'm Chinese!
201152 minFilm: Documentary
Direction: Nicole Giguère
Production: Pauline VoisardJacques Turgeon (National Film Board of Canada)Johanne Bergeron (National Film Board of Canada)
Script: Nicole Giguère
Produced by Productins VF inc. in co-production with the National Film Board of Canada, in collaboration with Radio-Canada and the financial participation of Crédit d'impôt cinéma et télévision - Gestion SODEC, CMF-FMC, and Crédit d'impôt pour production cinméatographique ou magnétoscopique canadienne.
Thousands of girls who were in the first wave of Chinese children to be
adopted in Québec in the 1990s have reached adolescence. The filmmaker focused
her lens on five of them and accompanied them throughout their emotionally
charged transition to adulthood. In their quest for identity, how do these
young Quebecers experience their difference? An intimate and touching
journey into the world of Alice, Lea, Julia, Anne and Flavie.
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Subject categories
- Children and Youth > Adoption and Foster CareYouthful Perspectives
- Families > Adoption and Foster CareParent-Child Relationships
- Developing Countries > China
- Family Studies/Home Economics > Family Diversity and Challenges
- Diversity > Identity
Credits
- participant
- Anne Décarie-Spain
- Léa Décarie-Spain
- Alice Giguère-Heppell
- Flavie Mathieu
- Julia Piotte
- Zhi Min Hu
- research
- Nicole Giguère
- script
- Nicole Giguère
- direction
- Nicole Giguère
- camera
- Isabelle de Blois
- Zhi Min Hu
- Nicole Giguère
- Alain Dupras
- Pascal Gélinas
- sound
- Stéphane Barsalou
- Emory Murchison
- Catherine Van Der Donckt
- editing
- Johane Fréchette
- animation
- Josiane Lapointe
- Photographer
- Sophia Perez
- makeup
- Elaine Hamel
- hair styling
- Flavie Mathieu
- text
- Nicole Giguère
- narration
- Nicole Giguère
- collaboration - writing
- Nicole Campeau
- narration recording
- Pascal Gélinas
- original music
- André Courcy
- Jenny Salgado
- voice
- Aimée Lee
- online editing
- Yannick Carrier
- titles
- Gaspard Gaudreau
- computer graphics
- Mélanie Bouchard
- English translation
- Paula McKeown
- subtitles
- Paula McKeown
- sound editing
- François Maurice
- mix
- Roger Guérin
- foley
- Danielle Bérard
- Paul Hubert
- Éric Lagacé
- line production
- Isabelle de Blois
- production accountant
- Pierre Lapointe
- assistant accountant
- Lorinne Larouche
- production assistant
- Suzie Genest
- distribution coordinator
- Claudine Thériault
- insurance
- Unionville Insurance Brokers
- CG&B Group Inc.
- Comerco Services inc.
- legal services
- Marie-José Harel
- marketing officer
- Julie Armstrong-Boileau
- Julie Arseneault
- marketing officer - assistance
- Émilie Nguyen Ngoc
- administrator
- Manon Provencher
- production coordinator
- Hélène Regimbal
- administrative assistant
- Lise Lévesque
- technical coordinator
- Richard Cliche
- technical support - editing
- Danielle Raymond
- Pierre Dupont
- Isabelle Painchaud
- executive producer
- Pauline Voisard
- Jacques Turgeon
- producer
- Pauline Voisard
- Johanne Bergeron
- development producer
- Yves Bisaillon