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This Beggar's Description
200558 min 8 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Pierre Tétrault
Production: Gerry FlahiveSilva BasmajianSylvia Sweeney
Script: Pierre Tétrault
This documentary is the story about Philip Tetrault, who is a poet first and a person living with schizophrenia second. It follows him through his day and through his history - starting with the present and examining his past. This film will trace his adventures throughout the years, highlighting his writings, his experiences with alcohol, his relationships with his ex-wife, daughter, siblings, and his kinship with the great poet/songwriter Leonard Cohen.
Subject categories
- Literature and Language - Canada > Canadian LiteratureEnglish-language WritersPoets and PoetryPortraits
- Psychology and Psychiatry > Family LifeMental Illness and DisabilitiesPortraitsSubstance Abuse
- Families > Family PortraitsMental HealthParent-Child Relationships
- Literature and Language > Portraits
Credits
- director
- Pierre Tétrault
- writer
- Pierre Tétrault
- narrator
- Pierre Tétrault
- producer
- Gerry Flahive
- director of photography
- Pierre Letarte
- editor
- Greg Hopen
- sound designer
- Christopher Miller
- original music composer
- Donald Quan
- sound recordist
- Christopher Miller
- creative consultant
- Doris Rajan
- prose
- Philip Tétrault
- poetry
- Philip Tétrault
- additional photography
- Sébastien Cassou
- Marc André Barsalou
- Greg Hopen
- assistant camera
- Sébastien Cassou
- Christian Navennec
- Gandhi
- additional sound
- Marie-France Delagrave
- Yann Cleary
- E. Selvham
- location manager
- Sylvie Lapointe
- Maryse Pigeon
- production assistant
- Raphael Daigneault
- gaffer
- Roger Martin
- best boy
- Luc Lorrain
- voice
- Arlajean Sillers
- archival researcher
- Elizabeth Klinck
- music researcher
- Elizabeth Klinck
- re-recording mixer
- Serge Boivin
- Shelley Craig
- narration record
- Christopher Miller
- voice record
- Christopher Miller
- online editor
- Sean Evans
- Patrick Hirlehey
- colourist
- Sean Evans
- Patrick Hirlehey
- title design
- Glenn Nakagawa
- assistant editor
- Angela Fong
- Anthony Miceli
- Allison White
- promo editor
- Caroline Coombs
- Vipin Sharma
- associate producer - development
- Jacqueline Land
- technical intern
- Dan Thornhill
- Shane Brisson-Visram
- production secretary
- Beth Biederman
- Corinne Herman
- senior administrative assistant
- Joanne Forrest
- budget officer
- Ida Di Fruscia
- Julietta McGovern
- marketing manager
- Sue Mander
- technical coordinator
- Mark Wilson
- production coordinator
- Nadine Simunic
- Jeff Sterne
- production supervisor
- Kemp Archibald
- line production
- Douglas MacFarlane
- executive producer
- Silva Basmajian
- Sylvia Sweeney