By: Will Cyr
Film Editor
What struck me most about Jean-Claude as I was
cutting the documentary was his tenacity. When he sets out to fulfill Picasso’s
idea of one not being a true artist until one has painted 10 000 tableaux, you
can’t help but admire his devotion.
I found the undertaking that Jean-Claude and
Christina took-on astonishing. Even though he is not a Newfoundland native, we
can sense Jean-Claude’s great love of the region; for anybody who choses to
invest such time and care to sharing and immortalizing this community’s history
must have a great devotion to it.
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By: Renée de Sousa
Production Assistant and Translator
Francophone communities living outside of Quebec often live
isolated from one another. We are often ignorant of the history and culture of
other province’s francophone communities. I found it fascinating to follow the
path of a people, and understand how specific events drastically changed the
fabric of Newfoundland.
Working on this documentary made me curious to learn about other
Canadian francophone communities. It is so interesting to see how francophone
minorities throughout the country have managed to survive and thrive after hundreds
of years.
We may be scattered
throughout the country, but we are united by language. Our specific stories
differ, but we share similar experiences and have faced familiar challenges. To
understand and appreciate that can only make us stronger.
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