Belle River (film)

Belle River is a 2022 Canadian short documentary film directed by Guillaume Fournier, Samuel Matteau and Yannick Nolin.[1] The third film in a trilogy about Cajun culture in Louisiana following the films Laissez les bon temps rouler in 2017 and Acadiana in 2019, the film profiles the residents of Pierre Part as they cope with the threat of their community being flooded by the possible but ultimately averted opening of the Morganza Spillway during the Mississippi River floods of 2019.[2]

Belle River
Directed byGuillaume Fournier
Samuel Matteau
Yannick Nolin
Written byGuillaume Fournier
Samuel Matteau
Yannick Nolin
Produced byGuillaume Fournier
Samuel Matteau
Yannick Nolin
CinematographyYannick Nolin
Edited byGuillaume Fournier
Samuel Matteau
Yannick Nolin
Production
company
Projet Kinomada
Distributed bySPIRA
Release date
  • January 2022 (2022-01) (SNCF)
Running time
11 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageFrench

The film premiered at the 2022 Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival.[3] It had its North American premiere at SXSW,[4] and was later screened at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival[5] and the DOXA Documentary Film Festival.[2]

The film was named to the Toronto International Film Festival's annual year-end Canada's Top Ten list for 2022.[6]

References
  1. "« BELLE RIVER » présenté à SXSW, au Tampere Film Festival et à REGARD". CTVM, March 3, 2022.
  2. Daina Lawrence, "This Town Doesn’t Blame Climate Change for its Floods". Asparagus, May 12, 2022.
  3. "SPIRA à Clermont-Ferrand : « BELLE RIVER » et « OUSMANE » présentés en compétition officielle". CTVM, December 16, 2021.
  4. Alexandre Vigneault, "TROIS PROJETS QUÉBÉCOIS PRÉSENTÉS AU TEXAS". La Presse, March 11, 2022.
  5. "PLUSIEURS OEUVRES QUÉBÉCOISES PRÉSENTÉES À HOT DOCS". Québec Cinéma, April 8, 2022.
  6. Pat Mullen, "Three Feature Docs Make Canada’s Top Ten". Point of View, December 8, 2022.


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