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St-Henri, the 26th of August

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On August 26th, 2010, fourteen filmmakers recorded multiple stories in the Montreal neighbourhood of Saint-Henri. The resulting film is a touching, funny and fascinating day-in-the-life of an eclectic community. Doris roams the streets collecting bottles; Belinda is a vibrant hair stylist from Togo; Babyface, the fifteen-year-old Canadian featherweight boxing champion, prepares for a match; Robert and Edmée enjoy their golden years together; and urban explorer Danielle scales abandoned buildings and descends into Saint-Henri's sewers. These are just a few of the characters we follow in St-Henri, the 26th of August, a film that explores what community means to us today, and how we inhabit our neighbourhoods. Inspired by the 1962 NFB film À Saint-Henri le cinq septembre, this unique collaborative project brings together some of the brightest talents in Montreal's contemporary documentary scene to capture these compelling stories.

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BIPOC filmmaker.
Agency:.Produced by Parabola Films in co-production with the National Film Board of Canada, with the financial participation of SODEC - Société de développement des entreprises culturelles - Québec, Crédit d'impôt pour production cinématographique ou magnétoscopique canadienne and Crédit d'impôt cinéma et télévision - Gestion SODEC, in collaboration with Canal D, and with the participation of Rogers Documentary Fund.
Agency - French program:.Québec Studio.

Credit Note

Director, Shannon Walsh ; editor, Sophie Leblond ; sound design, Daniel Lagacé ; sound edit, Daniel Lagacé ; writer, Shannon Walsh, Denis Valiquette ; producer, Sarah Spring ; associate producer, Selin Murat ; producer, Colette Loumède ; unit director, Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette, Richard Brouillette, Tracey Deer, Claude Demers, Halima Elkhatabi, Sylvain L'Espérance, Caroline Martel, Amy Miller, Kaveh Nabatian, Denis Valiquette, Karen Vanderborght, Shannon Walsh ; director of photography, Marie-Noël Arseneau, Geoffroy Beauchemin, Fabien Côté, Boban Chaldovich, Jeff Dorn, Yanie Dupont-Hébert, Julien Fontaine, Katerine Giguère, Paul Kell, Philippe Lavalette, Martin Leblanc, Jacques Leduc, Sylvain L'Espérance, Jean-Pierre Saint-Louis ; sound, Santiago Bertolino, Fabien Côté, Jose Garcia, Simon Goulet, Daniel Lagacé, Marc Larouche, Olivier Léger, Alexandre Le Mouël, Martine Morin, Christophe Motte, Kyle Stanfield, Lynne Trépanier, Catherine Van Der Donckt, Sylvain Vary ; sound mixer, Jean Paul Vialard ; consultant, Pepita Ferrari ; research, Shannon Walsh, Denis Valiquette ; original score, Patrick Watson.

Performer Note

Participant, Daniel Humbert, Doris Bafaro, Jessy Dubois-L'Alonde, Jeremy Tremblay, Jin Yong Lee, Daniel Cameron, François Bégin Perron, Lydia Bégin Perron, Lucie Perron, Natasha Perron, Yolande Brunelle, Richard Call, Yanick Fournier, Jonathan Dumas, Claude Hachey, Stéfane Desjardins, Robert Labrecque, Edmée Savoie, Marie Ève Mineau, Valérie Gaudreault, Belinda Agbeko, Wendy Agbeko, Thérèse Melançon, Denise Melançon, Khai Hiep Tran, Oktay "Baby-Face" Kazimoglu, Félix "X-Boy" Gaudreau, Herby Whyne, Walter Kaheruton, Jonas Gilbert, Danielle Plamondon, null Rage5, Sylvain Lemieux, Jean-Paul Beaudoin, Jennifer Paquette, null Bubonic Bear.

Time of Event Note

Recorded 2011.

Summary

On August 26th, 2010, fourteen filmmakers recorded multiple stories in the Montreal neighbourhood of Saint-Henri. The resulting film is a touching, funny and fascinating day-in-the-life of an eclectic community. Doris roams the streets collecting bottles; Belinda is a vibrant hair stylist from Togo; Babyface, the fifteen-year-old Canadian featherweight boxing champion, prepares for a match; Robert and Edmée enjoy their golden years together; and urban explorer Danielle scales abandoned buildings and descends into Saint-Henri's sewers. These are just a few of the characters we follow in St-Henri, the 26th of August, a film that explores what community means to us today, and how we inhabit our neighbourhoods. Inspired by the 1962 NFB film À Saint-Henri le cinq septembre, this unique collaborative project brings together some of the brightest talents in Montreal's contemporary documentary scene to capture these compelling stories.

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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).