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View from the Summit
20021 h 15 min 15 secFilm: Documentary
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