Quebec My Country Mon Pays charts the aftermath of Quebec’s Quiet Revolution in the 1960s. This social justice movement unleashed dramatic cultural and political changes that led to the separatist movement, the FLQ terrorist crisis and, ultimately, the exodus of more than 500,000 English-speaking Quebecers. Montreal-born filmmaker John Walker reveals his own complicated relationship with the province in a film brimming with love and longing.
Walker’s roots in Quebec go back 250 years. Yet he’s struggled his entire life to find his place and to feel he truly belongs. In Quebec My Country Mon Pays, he explores a very personal story through the lens of a cast of characters including three generations of his family, childhood confidantes and artistic contemporaries – Denys Arcand, Jacques Godbout and Louise Pelletier – as well as Christina Clark, a young person whose experience today mirrors Walker’s own in the 1960s and ‘70s, and Emilie Gélinas, a young Quebec independentist.
In a quest to make sense of a divisive and transformative time in Quebec’s evolution, they each wrestle with their memories, their decisions and the continuing reverberations.
JOHN WALKER PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS “QUEBEC MY COUNTRY MON PAYS”
FEATURING DENYS ARCAND CHRISTINA CLARK EMILIE GELINAS JACQUES GODBOUT
LOUISE PELLETIER YOLANDE SIMARD PERRAULT PIERRE TETRAULT JOANNE WALKER AND PAUL WARREN
CINEMATOGRAPHER KATERINE GIGUERE EDITOR JEFF WARREN COMPOSER SANDY MOORE SOUND DESIGNER ALEX SALTER
LOCATION SOUND SYLVAIN VARY PRODUCERS ANN BERNIER JOHN WALKER WRITER, DIRECTOR & NARRATOR JOHN WALKER
produced in association with documentary Channel with the participation of the Canada Media Fund / Fonds des médias du Canada, Rogers Cable Network Fund,
Rogers Telefund; with the assistance of Nova Scotia Film Industry Tax Credit and The Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit.
