Afghan Chronicles Canada
2007, 52min.
Prod.: Nathalie Barton, Yves Bisaillon, Script/Dir.: Dominic Morissette, Dir. of Phot.: Dominic Morissette, Catherine Pappas, Sound: Catherine Pappas, Edit.: Myriam Poirier
In Kabul the press group Killid Media is a real phenomenon in which women play a vital part. We follow as it distributes its magazines around the city, and get an inside view of the reconstruction of Afghanistan. This new press carries a message freed from the constraints of tradition. Yet despite the emergence of democracy, achievements are still fragile.
Production Company
InformAction Films inc.
Address: 460, Sainte-Catherine Street West # 927
Montreal, Quebec, H3B 1A7, Canada
Tel: (1) 514-2840441
Fax: (1) 514-284-0772
E-mail: info@informactionfilms.com
www.informactionfilms.com
National Film Board of Canada
Address: 3155 Cote-de-Liesse, Montreal, Quebec, H4N 2N4, Canada
Tel: (1) 514-283-9000
E-mail: y.bisaillon@onf.ca
www.onf.ca
| Morissette, Dominic Dominic Morissette
Dominic Morissette’s first love was photography. Then he discovered film. Since 1991 this inveterate cinematographer has shot documentaries all over the world. From 1998 on he travelled the coasts of Canada and South Asia filming the lives of fishermen. His travels were depicted in a travelling exhibition shown in Canada in 2000. In 2003 with Catherine Pappas, who has always worked with him, he co-directed Les derniers chasseurs du petit havre, a feature-length film nominated for a Jutra Prize for best documentary. The work depicted the daily lives of Nova-Scotian fishermen and their struggle to survive the moratorium on the cod fishery. In 2003-2004 he gave video and photography workshops to Afghan civilians as part of the programme of the Afghan Peace and Democracy Act (APDA). Over seventy young people benefited from his professional experience, and seven films were the result of this fruitful collaboration.
Filmography
My World to Me (1995), Salvador (1995), The Last Hunters from the Small Platform (2004), Afghan Presidential Elections in Bamyan (2004), Afghan Chronicles (2007)
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