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Silence is gold / MC2 Communication Média presents in co-production with the National Film Board of Canada ; a film by Julien Fréchette ; written and directed by Julien Fréchette ; with the participation of Alain Deneault ; producer, Jean-Simon Chartier ; producer (NFB), Colette Loumède.
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Authors--Legal status, laws, etc.
- Authors.
- Freedom of speech--Canada.
- Freedom of speech.
- Mineral industries--Canada.
- Mineral industries.
- Trials (Libel).
- Canada.
- Trials (Libel)--Canada.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Nonfiction films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 streaming video file (78 min.) : digital, sound, color
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- [Montréal, Québec] : [Distributed by] National Film Board of Canada, [2015]
- Language Note:
- In English and French with English subtitles.
- System Details:
- System requirements: Firefox 4 and up; Safari 5.0 and up; Chrome version 21 and up; Internet Explorer 8 and up; Flash or HTML5 player.
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- video file
- Summary:
- What are the limits to freedom of speech? Can we put a price on our spoken and written words? Following the 2008 release of the book Noir Canada, author Alain Deneault, his co-writers and his publisher, Éditions Écosociété, grappled with these questions at great personal expense after being sued for defamation in Quebec and Ontario courts by two large Canadian mining companies. Deneault and his publisher fought back, becoming entangled in a seemingly never-ending spiral of judicial proceedings. This film leads us through the twists and turns of the pre-trial legal proceedings, as we eagerly anticipate a resolution that is continually delayed.
- Credits:
- Director of photography, Étienne Boilard ; editor, Andrea Henriquez ; original music, Dany Nicolas, Zoé Dumais.
- Notes:
- Title from title frames.
- Originally produced by: MC2 Communication Média, c2012.
- Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed August 3, 2015).
- Publisher Number:
- nf-sig Docuseek2
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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