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They Think I'm Chinese!

2011 52 min
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Thousands of girls who were in the first wave of Chinese children to be adopted in Québec in the 1990s have reached adolescence. The filmmaker focused her lens on five of them and accompanied them throughout their emotionally charged transition to adulthood. In their quest for identity, how do these young Quebecers experience their difference? An intimate and touching journey into the world of Alice, Lea, Julia, Anne and Flavie.

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Thousands of girls who were in the first wave of Chinese children to be adopted in Québec in the 1990s have reached adolescence. The filmmaker focused her lens on five of them and accompanied them throughout their emotionally charged transition to adulthood. In their quest for identity, how do these young Quebecers experience their difference? An intimate and touching journey into the world of Alice, Lea, Julia, Anne and Flavie.

  • participant
    Anne Décarie-Spain
    Léa Décarie-Spain
    Alice Giguère-Heppell
    Flavie Mathieu
    Julia Piotte
    Zhi Min Hu
  • research
    Nicole Giguère
  • script
    Nicole Giguère
  • direction
    Nicole Giguère
  • camera
    Isabelle de Blois
    Zhi Min Hu
    Nicole Giguère
    Alain Dupras
    Pascal Gélinas
  • sound
    Stéphane Barsalou
    Emory Murchison
    Catherine Van Der Donckt
  • editing
    Johane Fréchette
  • animation
    Josiane Lapointe
  • Photographer
    Sophia Perez
  • makeup
    Elaine Hamel
  • hair styling
    Flavie Mathieu
  • text
    Nicole Giguère
  • narration
    Nicole Giguère
  • collaboration - writing
    Nicole Campeau
  • narration recording
    Pascal Gélinas
  • original music
    André Courcy
    Jenny Salgado
  • voice
    Aimée Lee
  • online editing
    Yannick Carrier
  • titles
    Gaspard Gaudreau
  • computer graphics
    Mélanie Bouchard
  • English translation
    Paula McKeown
  • subtitles
    Paula McKeown
  • sound editing
    François Maurice
  • mix
    Roger Guérin
  • foley
    Danielle Bérard
    Paul Hubert
    Éric Lagacé
  • line producer
    Isabelle de Blois
  • production accountant
    Pierre Lapointe
  • assistant accountant
    Lorinne Larouche
  • production assistant
    Suzie Genest
  • distribution coordinator
    Claudine Thériault
  • insurance
    Unionville Insurance Brokers
    CG&B Group Inc.
    Comerco Services inc.
  • legal services
    Marie-José Harel
  • marketing officer
    Julie Armstrong-Boileau
    Julie Arseneault
  • marketing officer - assistance
    Émilie Nguyen Ngoc
  • administrator
    Manon Provencher
  • production coordinator
    Hélène Regimbal
  • administrative assistant
    Lise Lévesque
  • technical coordinator
    Richard Cliche
  • technical support - editing
    Danielle Raymond
    Pierre Dupont
    Isabelle Painchaud
  • executive producer
    Pauline Voisard
    Jacques Turgeon
  • producer
    Pauline Voisard
    Johanne Bergeron
  • development producer
    Yves Bisaillon

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