East End Kids (2004)
- Original title
- Vues de l'Est
- Directed by
- Carole Laganière
- Genre
- documentary
- Country
- Canada
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
The film shows children from a low-income Montreal neighborhood talking with the director about their dreams for the future.
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What happens
East End Kids (French: Vues de l'est) is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Carole Laganière and released in 2004. 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. 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. East End Forever (L'Est pour toujours), a sequel film in which Laganière revisited the children in their teenage years, was released in 2011. 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. Following Laganière's death in 2023, the film received a special tribute screening at the Cinémathèque québécoise. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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