A critical look by activist Will Prosper on the Fredy Villanueva affair, a portrait of actor Marcel Sabourin drawn by his son Jérôme, as well as a tribute to filmmaker Robert Morin by his lover André-Line Beauparlant are among the documentaries that will receive support from the Cultural Business Development Corporation.
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The documentary freddy, directed and co-written by Will Propser with Yanick Létourneau, looks back on the tragedy that cost the life of young Fredy Villanueva, who was shot and killed by a police officer, in particular by raising the question of systemic racism. By giving a voice to the Villanueva family in particular, the activist Prosper takes a critical political and social look at today’s Quebec.
In a completely different register, the son of Marcel Sabourin, Jérôme, exhibits in At the end of nothing pantout the confessions of his actor father, improviser, screenwriter and lyricist at times, delivered daily on a cassette recorder. This portrait-essay written by Jérôme Sabourin, Sarah Lévesque and Angélique Richer is ultimately a hymn to life conveyed through the eyes of this remarkable artist.
As for My love is for the rest of my life, this is a very personal reflection by André-Line Beauparlant about her lover, filmmaker Robert Morin. In her documentary, she notably interweaves extracts from films with images filmed while he is filming, hunting, on the edge of a fire or in the woods, in a reflection on creation, love, Life and death.
Among the other documentaries selected, let us underline in particular Like free beings, by Steve Patry, about individuals living in the forest at odds with the world, Malartic, by Nicolas Paquet, a dive into the heart of the municipality of Abitibi which still lives on a respirator despite the opening in its heart of the largest open pit gold mine in Canada, or even The whole truth about aliens, an investigation worthy of a thriller by Guylaine Maroist about strange events that have occurred in the Laurentians and which plunges us between the worlds of science and ufology.
A total of nine medium-length and feature-length documentaries will receive production assistance from SODEC in 2022 – the final submission of applications was completed on October 13.