SYNOPSIS
Summit of the Americas, April 20, 2001. Quebec City looks like a city under siege. While, within the security perimeter, guests from the political and financial communities were discussing the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) agreements, groups of citizens from all over the continent were demonstrating their opposition in the streets. Most of them intend to do so in a peaceful manner. Others do not. The weekend promises to be hot. It will be. With a camera on their shoulder, seven film crews followed the events in Quebec City, half asphyxiated by gas.
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Magnus Isacsson
SEE COMPLETE PROFILEMagnus Isacsson, born in Sweden in 1948 and died in 2012, was a Canadian documentary filmmaker whose films focused on politics and social activism. He immigrated to Canada in 1970. He worked as a producer for the CBC, and has made some 20 independent films since 1985. In his early years, Isacsson was particularly involved with the Documentary Organization of Canada (DOC), helping to form the Montreal chapter in 1988. He was also involved in the Rencontres Internationales du Documentaire de Montréal.
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SCREENING 1
9 August 2022 at 20h30
Parc Médéric-Martin
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