Ninth Floor /
It started quietly when a group of Caribbean students, strangers in a cold new land, began to suspect their professor of racism. It ended in the most explosive student uprising Canada had ever known. Over four decades later, Ninth Floor reopens the file on the infamous Sir George Williams Riot - a w...
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| Format: | Video |
| Language: | English |
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Montreal :
National Film Board of Canada,
2015.
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| Series: | NFB online collection.
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| Online Access: | Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press) |
| Summary: | It started quietly when a group of Caribbean students, strangers in a cold new land, began to suspect their professor of racism. It ended in the most explosive student uprising Canada had ever known. Over four decades later, Ninth Floor reopens the file on the infamous Sir George Williams Riot - a watershed moment in Canadian race relations and one of the most contested episodes in the nation's history. Making a compassionate and audacious foray into non-fiction, writer and director Mina Shum locates the protagonists in clandestine locations throughout Trinidad and Montreal, the wintry city where it all went down. In a cinematic gesture of reckoning and redemption, she listens as they set the record straight -- and lay their burden down. Can we make peace with the past? What lessons have we learned? What really happened up there on the 9th floor? |
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| Item Description: | Pacific and Yukon Centre. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (1 streaming video file (81 min.)) |
| Audience: | Régie du cinéma du Québec rating: G. CHV rating: G. |
| Production Credits: | Writer/director, Mina Shum ; producer, Selwyn Jacob ; editor, Carmen Pollard ; director of photography, John Price ; composer, Brent Belke ; sound designer, Miguel Nunes ; production designer, Elisabeth Williams, Donna Noonan ; sound recordist, Marco Fania, Gabor Vadnay ; creative director, Carmen Pollard ; archival research, Elizabeth Klinck, Tom Puchniak, Lesley-Anne Macfarlane ; research, David Austin ; participant, Rodney John, Clarence Bayne, Anne Cools, Nantali Indongo, Robert Hubsher, Claude-Armand Sheppard, Noel Lyon, Marvin Coleby, Duff Anderson, Naim Indongo-Bangoura, Bukka Rennie, Terrence Ballantyne, Valerie Belgrave, Hugo Ford, Lynne Murray, Mark Chang ; sound editor, Miguel Nunes ; foley artist, Ian Mackie, Don Harrison ; re-recording mixer, Jean Paul Vialard ; executive producer, Shirley Vercruysse. |