View from the Summit

20021 h 15 min 15 secFilm: Documentary

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Direction: Magnus Isacsson

Production: Paul Lapointe (Les Productions Érézi Inc.)Germaine Ying Gee Wong (National Film Board of Canada)Jacques MénardSally Bochner

Script: Magnus Isacsson

Co-produced by les Productions Érézi Inc. and the National Film Board of Canada with the participation of the Film and Television Tax Credit - Québec; Sodec - Société de développement des entreprises culturelles - Québec; the Canada Film or Video Tax Credit and in association with TVOntario and Télé-Québec.

It's April 20, 2001 - and Quebec City prepares to host the three-day Summit of the Americas. A four-kilometre fence has been erected, cutting off the Upper Town from the rest of the city.

Thirty-four heads of state from the Americas will meet behind closed doors to discuss agreements for a Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). Those opposed to the FTAA are mobilizing and gathering in Quebec City, too. Several thousand delegates have come to participate in the People's Summit, and tens of thousands will march in protest.

Six thousand police officers fill the streets and it looks as if the historic Quebec capital is under siege. The local population fears the worst. Will the Quebec capital become a battleground?

Shot in cinéma vérité style by seven of Quebec's best documentary filmmakers, View from the Summit vividly portrays what happens when passionate and creative protesters clash with the ideologies of those in power.

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Subject categories


  • Politics and Government > DemocracyInternational Conferences
  • Economics > Foreign Relations and TradeGlobalizationInternational Relations
  • Industry and Commerce > International Commerce
  • Social Issues > Social ChangeSocial IssuesViolence
  • Social Studies > Canada in the World TodayEconomics
  • Civics/Citizenship > Citizen Responsibilities
  • Media Education > Documentary Film

Credits


original idea
Magnus Isacsson
script
Magnus Isacsson
directing
Magnus Isacsson
participation
Thomas D'Aquino
Philippe Duhamel
Richard Feinberg
Pierre Goupil
Tania Hallé
Graciela Rodriguez
collaboration
Luc Côté
Philippe Falardeau
Marie-Claude Harvey
Anne Henderson
Patricio Henríquez
principal photography
François Beauchemin
Rénald Bellemare
Henry Bernadet
Martin Duckworth
Andrei Khabad
Eve Lamont
Martin Leclerc
Jean-Pierre Saint-Louis
editing
Louise Côté
music
René Lussier
research
Gavin Andrews
Henry Bernadet
Luc Côté
Anne Henderson
Magnus Isacsson
Paul Lapointe
additional photography
Olivier Asselin
Luc Côté
Patricio Henríquez
Magnus Isacsson
sound recording
Éric Celton
Marie-France Delagrave
Craig Lapp
Bertrand Lemoine
Hubert Macé de Gastines
Chantal Rhéaume
Yves Saint-Jean
Philippe Scultéty
Victor Tendler
Alain Tremblay
production management
Doris Lapierre
technical coordination
Hubert Macé de Gastines
production assistant
Hélène Dugas
Claude Gasser
Noémie Guérin-Gosselin
Alie Gray
Catherine Hébert
Christophe Knowles
Chantal Labonté
Marie-Dominique Lahaise
Caroline Martel
Élise Massuard
Steven Valin
Éric Watelle
production stills
Jacques Nadeau
administration
Jean-François Foucault
post-production coordination
Claire Buffet
Claude Cardinal
Patsy-Ann Francoeur
editing assistant
Marie-Claude Brouillette
Théo Van Brabant
online editing
Jean-Gilles Valence
Guillaume Millet
graphic artist
Sophia Southam
subtitles
Jocelyne Clarke
Danielle Henripin
Conception Cortacans
sound design
Martin Allard
Hugo Brochu
sound editing
Martin Allard
Hugo Brochu
music recording
Geoffrey Mitchell
Patrick Viegas
sound mix
Serge Boivin
Jean Paul Vialard
music performer
Guillaume Dostaler
François Chauvette
Maxime Lepage
René Lussier
archival research
Jocelyne Clarke
Andrea Henriquez
producer
Paul Lapointe
Germaine Ying Gee Wong
Jacques Ménard
executive producer
Paul Lapointe
Sally Bochner