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The Downtown Project

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Seventeen hundred tenants from 70 different countries, with an average household income of $12,000, in a series of buildings covering almost a square kilometre: Les Habitations Jeanne-Mance is the largest social housing complex in Quebec. Built in 1959 where the red-light district used to be, just a stone's throw from Montreal's bustling Sainte-Catherine Street and Saint Lawrence Boulevard, it has retained something of the area's seedy reputation for poverty, prostitution, drugs and violence. But who really knows the projects and the people who live there? Delving beneath the prejudices and stereotypes, director Isabelle Longtin ventured inside and met the residents. The result is The Downtown Project, a documentary that reveals a complex multi-ethnic reality made up of compelling personal stories and social movements. Grappling with the stresses of immigration and cultural integration, the projects' diverse inhabitants pride themselves on the sense of community they share.

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Agency:.Produced by Macumba Doc in co-production with the National Film Board of Canada, with the financial participation of Crédit d'impôt cinéma et télévision - Gestion SODEC, Rogers Documentary Fund and the Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit, with the collaboration of TV5, and developed with the financial participation of SODEC.
Agency - French program:.Québec Studio.

Credit Note

Writer, Isabelle Longtin ; director, Isabelle Longtin ; producer, Raymonde Provencher, Colette Loumède ; cinematography, Charles Latour ; sound recording, Simon Plouffe ; editing, Robert Cornellier, Elric Robichon ; original music, Ghislain Poirier ; research, Isabelle Longtin ; sound design, Bruno Pucella ; sound editing, Bruno Pucella ; mix, Richard Pelletier ; executive producer, Robert Cornellier, Patricio Henríquez, Raymonde Provencher.

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Recorded 2011.

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Seventeen hundred tenants from 70 different countries, with an average household income of $12,000, in a series of buildings covering almost a square kilometre: Les Habitations Jeanne-Mance is the largest social housing complex in Quebec. Built in 1959 where the red-light district used to be, just a stone's throw from Montreal's bustling Sainte-Catherine Street and Saint Lawrence Boulevard, it has retained something of the area's seedy reputation for poverty, prostitution, drugs and violence. But who really knows the projects and the people who live there? Delving beneath the prejudices and stereotypes, director Isabelle Longtin ventured inside and met the residents. The result is The Downtown Project, a documentary that reveals a complex multi-ethnic reality made up of compelling personal stories and social movements. Grappling with the stresses of immigration and cultural integration, the projects' diverse inhabitants pride themselves on the sense of community they share.

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Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Description based on online resource; title from title screen (National Film Board of Canada, viewed 2023-08-10).