Your Call is Important to Us
(Votre appel est important pour nous)
by Joe Nadeau and Romy Boutin St-Pierre
2024, Canada, 8 mins
7:00 PM on Sept 20, 2024
About the movie
English: People from diverse backgrounds call various government departments looking for answers to their bureaucratic problems. Through the comic absurdity of their discussions with this government machine, tragic situations emerge. The eight-minute staged documentary “Your call is important to us” exposes the systemic discriminations generated by rigid Canadian institutional authorities that are out of touch with everyday reality.
Français: Des personnes issues de la diversité appellent différentes instances ministérielles pour trouver des réponses à leurs problèmes bureaucratiques. À travers l’absurdité comique de leur discussion avec la machine gouvernementale, on voit apparaître des situations tragiques. Le court métrage documentaire avec mise en scène « Votre appel est important pour nous » d’une durée de huit minutes expose des discriminations systémiques générées par des autorités institutionnelles canadiennes inflexibles et déconnectées de la réalité quotidienne.
About the directors
Romy Boutin St-Pierre
As a fiction and documentary filmmaker, Romy Boutin St-Pierre is interested in social depolarization,
cultural relativism and the plurality of perspectives. With a bachelor’s degree in international relations,
a diploma in Arabic language and two years’ experience as a video journalist at Radio-Canada, her
interest in the diversity of perspectives led her to pursue her production experience and film studies in
Quebec, Lebanon and Morocco.
Joe Nadeau
Joe Nadeau is an emerging multidisciplinary artist from Edmundston, New Brunswick. In 2022, they graduated from the University of Moncton, in Moncton New-Brunswick with a Bachelor’s degree in Dramatic Arts. Since then, they navigate the cultural scene of Moncton between theater and film, acting and creation. Most recently, their film GendrBendr won the Prix La Vague for best Acadian short film at the 36th Festival international du cinéma francophone en Acadie (FICFA).
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