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Paula

2011 10 min
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D’un fait divers, Dominic Etienne Simard tire un court métrage d’animation où se croisent l’amour et le commerce, le jeu et la violence, les préjugés et l’incompréhension. Un enfant et une prostituée partagent le même espace : un bout de rue dans un quartier populaire. L’enfant s’amuse, mais la réalité de la prostituée entre brutalement dans son univers alors qu’il est témoin d’une agression.

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Paula

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D’un fait divers, Dominic Etienne Simard tire un court métrage d’animation où se croisent l’amour et le commerce, le jeu et la violence, les préjugés et l’incompréhension. Un enfant et une prostituée partagent le même espace : un bout de rue dans un quartier populaire. L’enfant s’amuse, mais la réalité de la prostituée entre brutalement dans son univers alors qu’il est témoin d’une agression.

This work contains scenes of violence. Viewer discretion is advised.
Urbanism Women Social Issues All subjects
  • script
    Dominic-Étienne Simard
    Martine Létourneau
  • animation
    Dominic-Étienne Simard
  • direction
    Dominic-Étienne Simard
  • editing
    Dominic-Étienne Simard
    Alain Baril
  • infographics
    Emmanuel Suquet
  • sound design
    Olivier Calvert
  • original music
    Ramachandra Borcar
  • musician
    Philip Hornsey
  • sound effects creation
    Lise Wedlock
  • recording
    Geoffrey Mitchell
  • sound mixer
    Serge Boivin
    Shelley Craig
  • digital imaging specialist
    Pierre Plouffe
    Susan Gourley
  • online editing
    Yannick Carrier
  • titles
    Gaspard Gaudreau
  • None
    Lucie Lavallée
    Émanuel Benoît
    Benjamin Hatcher
    Luc Charest
    Katherine Granger
    Jérémie Verrette
    David Poulin
    Christina Sciortino
    Félix Thompson
    Shane Smith
    Patrice Houx
    Virginie Léger
    Elaine Hamel
  • director of photography
    Jean-Pierre St-Louis
  • light designer
    Jean-François Lépine
  • grip-lighting
    Léopold Laliberté-Guy
    Henri Normand
  • 1st assistant director
    René Pothier
  • artistic director
    Gilles Aird
  • set decorator
    Jean Kazimirchuck
  • scenic painter
    Johanne Dumoulin
    Marc Desjardins
  • costume designer-dresser
    Nicole Magny
  • acting coach
    Liane Simard
  • marketing officer
    Christine Noël
  • administrator
    Diane Régimbald
  • administrative team
    Diane Ayotte
    Karine Desmeules
    Michèle Labelle
  • technical coordinator
    Julie Laperrière
  • delegate producer
    Francine Langdeau
  • executive producer
    René Chénier
  • producer
    Julie Roy

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Ages 15 to 17
School subjects
Civics/Citizenship - Human Rights Ethics and Religious Culture - Ethical Values Health/Personal Development - Bullying & Discrimination
A valuable educational tool for exploring the risks that marginalized people face. In ethics/social studies/ethics and religious culture class, underline the underlying humanity of people, beyond popular stereotypes and prejudices. Does the prostitute really deserve her fate? How would you have reacted if you were the boy?
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