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Acadia (9)

  • Edith Butler - Daughter of the Wind and Acadie
    Edith Butler - Daughter of the Wind and Acadie
    Monique LeBlanc 2009 5 min
    Combining interviews with teachers, admirers and musical peers, as well as footage from 40 years of performing, director Monique Leblanc's film captures singer/songwriter Édith Butler's moving artistry. A master show woman, Édith is always in flight – singing, playing, her long hair flying, with an epic grin on her face, covering everything from the softest lament to the most rollicking infectious footstomper. This film was produced for the 2009 Governor General's Performing Arts Award.
  • Faut pas l’dire ! (English Version)
    Faut pas l’dire ! (English Version)
    Michel Brault  &  André Gladu 1976 26 min
    Folklorist Charlotte Cormier relates how Acadians, having been dispossessed during the Expulsion, maintained their social cohesion and culture through oral tradition, including song. The struggle is not over, and many Acadians are concerned about the future of their people, but no one dares say the dirty words…
  • Il allont-y disparaître ? (English Version)
    Il allont-y disparaître ? (English Version)
    Michel Brault  &  André Gladu 1976 27 min
    Founded in 1780 by Acadian refugees, Chéticamp is today the largest Acadian community in Cape Breton (formerly Île Royale). The town’s history is related by well-known educator and Acadian activist Alexandre Boudreau, along with a story from the oral history by fisher Tom Chiasson. They express their concern for the future of the Acadians.
  • Lucien’s Happiness
    Lucien’s Happiness
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    Nathalie Hébert 2019 23 min
    To better understand the essence of happiness, filmmaker Nathalie Hébert speaks with Lucien Comeau, a musician and “philosopher of the everyday” who lives in Tracadie-Sheila, New Brunswick. This simple, informal portrait nonetheless moves beyond conventional, preconceived ideas to offer profound insights into the meaning of life and success.
  • L’en premier (English Version)
    L’en premier (English Version)
    Michel Brault  &  André Gladu 1976 26 min
    Initially, the Acadians lived peacefully with their ingenious system of dykes and aboiteaux, a technology they brought over from Poitou that allowed them to farm reclaimed tidal marshland without taking anything away from their Mi’kmaq allies. Ethnologist Charlotte Cormier describes what life was like, and Lamèque lumberjack Majorique Duguay expresses it in song.
  • Ma chère terre (English Version)
    Ma chère terre (English Version)
    Michel Brault  &  André Gladu 1976 25 min
    Radio host and writer Revon Reed relates that the Acadians, expelled from their land in the north, dreamed of owning land in Louisiana, and this became a hallmark of the culture. Fiddlers Aedius Naquin and Dennis McGhee talk about the life of a Cajun musician and their unique style of singing while playing, inherited from the troubadours of the Middle Ages.
  • Pimp My Boat
    Pimp My Boat
    2005 5 min
    Traditional Acadian lobster trapping meets global-village pop culture in this amusing parody of the popular MTV reality show "Pimp my Ride." Join host Bubs and his gang on Bell-Côte wharf as they set out to renovate and modify old fisherman Albény's trusty boat.
  • Réveille ! (English Version)
    Réveille ! (English Version)
    Michel Brault  &  André Gladu 1976 27 min
    International star Zachary Richard talks about his journey as a musician, explaining how the American melting-pot ideology tried to eradicate Cajun culture in the U.S. After years of shame, young musicians such as the band Coteau and Michael Doucet are taking up the torch. Richard performs his resistance song “Réveille!”
  • Trécarré: Exploring the Saint Mary’s Bay Sound
    Trécarré: Exploring the Saint Mary’s Bay Sound
    Natalie Robichaud 2024 30 min
    Musical culture is part of the DNA in the Nova Scotia Acadian community of Baie Sainte-Marie. Brimming with talent, members of the local music scene are reinventing tradition and taking their vibrant rhythms far beyond the region’s boundaries. Rich in dialect and bursting with local tunes, Trécarré invites us to discover the magic of music that asks us not just to listen, but to share it, dance to it and live it.