Underplayed Gems

Silence Is Gold (2012)

Silence Is Gold poster
Original title
Le prix des mots
Directed by
Julien Fréchette
Genre
documentary
Country
Canada
Runtime
1h 17m
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A documentary follows a writer facing a lawsuit after publishing a book on Canadian mining companies in Africa. It shows his fight against the legal challenge and the issues his book raised.

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What happens

Silence Is Gold (French: Le Prix des mots) is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Julien Fréchette and released in 2012. The film profiles writer Alain Deneault, who had to battle a SLAPP suit after the publication of his 2008 book Noir Canada: Pillage, corruption et criminalité en Afrique, about the activities of Canadian mining companies in Africa. The film premiered at the 2012 Montreal International Documentary Festival, before going into wider release in February 2013. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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