Silence Is Gold (2012)

Original title

Le prix des mots

Directed by

Julien Fréchette

Genre

documentary

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 17m

Elsewhere

IMDb

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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