East End Kids

East End Kids
FrenchVues de l'est
Directed byCarole Laganière
Produced byNathalie Barton
CinematographyPhilippe Lavalette
Edited byFrance Pilon
Music byBertrand Chénier
Production
company
Release date
  • 2004 (2004)
Running time
52 minutes
CountryCanada

East End Kids (French: Vues de l'est) is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Carole Laganière and released in 2004.[1] The film profiles a group of children from the underprivileged Hochelaga-Maisonneuve area of Montreal, where Laganière herself was born, and features Laganière conversing with them about their hopes and dreams for the future.[2]

The participating children were Valérie Allard, Jean-Rock Beauregard, Maxime Desjardins, Vanessa Dumont, Samantha Goyer, Maxime Proulx-Roy and Marianne Racine.

It was a Jutra Award nominee for Best Documentary Film at the 7th Jutra Awards in 2005.[3]

East End Forever (L'Est pour toujours), a sequel film in which Laganière revisited the children in their teenage years, was released in 2011.[4] Maxime Desjardins-Tremblay became an actor, with credits including the films Mommy Is at the Hairdresser's (Maman est chez le coiffeur), Coteau rouge, 10½ and Flashwood.[5]

Following Laganière's death in 2023, the film received a special tribute screening at the Cinémathèque québécoise.

References

  1. ^ Steve Proulx, "Vues de l’Est, Michael Jackson: coupable ou non coupable?, Ces enfants qui dérangent, L’Héritière de Grande Ourse et Perdus". Voir, March 10, 2005.
  2. ^ André Lavoie, "Petites fleurs de macadam". Le Devoir, May 14, 2004.
  3. ^ "Cinémascope leads Jutras with nine". Playback, January 31, 2005.
  4. ^ Martin Gignac, "Vues de l'Est: une adolescence plus tard". Métro, May 12, 2011.
  5. ^ Sonia Sarfati, "Maxime Desjardins-Tremblay: d'un ring à l'autre". La Presse, October 20, 2007.
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