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BOOTLEGGER

By Caroline MONNET

Drama - Completed 2021

Two radically opposed women divide the community into two sides who face each other to determine the best path to independence.

Festivals
& Awards

Rotterdam IFFR 2016

CineMart

Berlinale - EFM 2016

Berlinale Coproduction Market

Cannes 2017

Best script Résidence Cinéfondation CNC

Festival nouveau cinéma 2021

Opening Film

Vancouver IFF 2021

Emergent Canadian Director Award

ImagineNative Film & Media Festival 2021

Dramatic Feature Award

Cinoche - Festival de Baie Comeau 2022

3 Outardes Awards

Iris Awards Québec Cinema 2022

8 nominations

- Year of production
- 2021
- Genres
- Drama, Social issues, Female director
- Countries
- CANADA
- Languages
- FRENCH-CANADIAN, ENGLISH-CANADA
- Budget
- 3 - 5 M$
- Duration
- 81 mn
- Director(s)
- Caroline MONNET
- Writer(s)
- Caroline MONNET, Daniel WATCHORN
- Cast
- Pascale BUSSIÈRES, Devery JACOBS
- ISAN
- 0000-0006-26A3-0000-F-0000-0000-T
- Producer(s)
- Catherine CHAGNON (Microclimat Films), Pierre EVEN (Item 7)
- Synopsis
- Mani, a master’s student, returns to the remote region in northern Quebec where she grew up. Her painful past resurfaces. Resolved to reintegrate into the community, she gets involved in the debate around a referendum on allowing the free sale of alcohol. Laura, a bootlegger, pockets the profits she makes under the protection of the band council and her partner Raymond. The latter is still angry with Mani, whom he holds responsible for the death of his daughter in a fire. Two radically opposed women divide the community into two sides who face each other to determine the best path to independence.
- Partners & financing
- Microclimat Films, Sodec, Telefilm Canada, Le Fonds Harold Greenberg, MK2 MILE END, Société Radio-Canada, Super Écran, Best Friend Forever
- Beginning of shooting
- Nov 17, 2019
- End of shooting
- Oct 01, 2020