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Antonine Maillet - The Possibilities Are Endless

Name: Antonine Maillet - The Possibilities Are Endless
Duration: 52 min

Ginette Pellerin

2009 | 52 min

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Made famous in 1971 by the success of La Sagouine and achieving international celebrity after winning the Prix Goncourt for Pélagie-la-Charrette in 1979, Antonine Maillet has been the mouthpiece of the Acadian people throughout the world for fifty years. This documentary takes us from Bouctouche to Montreal by way of Moncton to discover a great writer who has rarely spoken of herself with such candour and generosity. An unforgettable autobiographical document.

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direction

Ginette Pellerin
research

Ginette Pellerin

Marie-Linda Lord
script

Ginette Pellerin
interviews

Ginette Pellerin

Marie-Linda Lord
participant

Antonine Maillet

Chloé Leclair

Blanca Navarro Pardinas

Jean Barbe

Pierre Filion

Noah Richler

Raoul Boudreau

Herménégilde Chiasson

Viola Léger

Marie-Linda Lord

David Lonergan

Daniel Castonguay
cast of character

Viola Léger

Luc Samuel LeBlanc

André Roy

Annette-Louise Brison

Donat Lacroix

Denise Bouchard

Robert Gauvin
script consultant

Suzanne Dussault
sound recording

Georges Hannan

Marie-France Delagrave

Aram Kouyoumdjian

Mélanie Gauthier
additional camera

Alain Dupras

Paul Mitcheltree

Michel Caissie

Ginette Pellerin
camera assistant

Geneviève Thibert

Charles Gagnon
helicopter operator

Tim L'Espérance
production manager

Christine Aubé

Denise LeBlanc
reading

Antonine Maillet
accessories

Bernice Butler

Andrea Buckle
animation

Philippe Lanteigne
special effects

Philippe Lanteigne
sound editor

Mélanie Gauthier
original music

Robert Marcel Lepage
musician

Frédéric Bednarz

Marcin Swoboda

Pemi Paull

Jean-Christophe Lizotte

Éveline Grégoire-Rousseau

Jean-François Ouellet

Martin Lizotte

Robert Marcel Lepage
recording studio

Studio 270
music re-recording

Robert Langlois

Benoit Durand-Jodoin
text recording

RévoluSon
foley

Lise Wedlock
foley recording

Geoffrey Mitchell
re-recording

Jean Paul Vialard
online editing

Yannick Carrier
titles

Philippe Lanteigne

Gaspard Gaudreau
credits

Philippe Lanteigne

Gaspard Gaudreau
editing technical support

Danielle Raymond

Pierre Dupont
still photographer

Gilles Landry

François Vincelette

Ginette Pellerin
marketing manager

Julie Arseneault
marketing manager - assistance

Karine Sévigny
administrator

Geneviève Duguay
production assistant

Colette Allain
technical coordinator

Jean-François Laprise

France Couture
interim producer

Maryse Chapdelaine
producer

Murielle Rioux-Poirier

Pauline Bourque

Ginette Pellerin
executive producer

Jacques Turgeon

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