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The Vigil
20208 min 57 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Christine Chevarie-Lessard
Production: Pierre-Mathieu Fortin (National Film Board of Canada)Nathalie Cloutier (Office national du film du Canada)
Script: Christine Chevarie-Lessard
Marguerite Paquin lives in a seniors’ home where 18 nuns from her religious congregation have succumbed to COVID-19. The film takes us from the grandeur of the landscapes of Côte-Nord, Quebec, where Marguerite has worked for 47 years, into the room where she sits confined today, finding a sort of liberation through prayer and unshakeable solidarity with her sisters who are suffering.
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Subject categories
- Health and Medicine > Coping with Illness and Dying
- Seniors > Health and Illness
- Women > Religion and Spirituality
- Religion, Beliefs and Ethics > Religious Communities
- Family Studies/Home Economics > Aging/Death and Dying
- Social Studies > Contemporary Issues
- Health/Personal Development > Disease Prevention
- Ethics and Religious Culture > Religious Diversity/Heritage
Credits
- director
- Christine Chevarie-Lessard
- writer
- Christine Chevarie-Lessard
- participant
- Marguerite Paquin
- producer
- Pierre-Mathieu Fortin
- cinematographer
- François Pesant
- editing
- Vincent Guignard
- sound design
- Catherine Van Der Donckt
- music
- Jean-Olivier Bégin
- location sound
- Richard Lavoie
- production manager
- Geneviève Thibert
- technical support - editing
- Pierre Dupont
- Marie-Josée Gourde
- Patrick Trahan
- titles design
- Daphnée Brisson-Cardin
- infographics
- Alain Ostiguy
- Cynthia Ouellet
- online editing
- Yannick Carrier
- colourization
- Yannick Carrier
- foley
- Nicolas Gagnon
- foley recording
- Geoffrey Mitchell
- re-recording
- Isabelle Lussier
- administrator
- Sia Koukoulas
- senior production coordinator
- Joëlle Lapointe
- production coordinator
- Alexandra Bourque
- Chinda Phommarinh
- studio coordinator
- Gabrielle Dupont
- technical coordinator
- Daniel Claveau
- line production
- Mélanie Lasnier
- executive producer
- Nathalie Cloutier