Synopsis for the Film
Film: Discourses in Ten Segments
Country: Canada/Mexico
Director: Saël Gueydan-Lacroix and Frédéric Julien
Duration: 34 min
Category: People Speak Out
What does one do when you are surrounded by remote lush green forests and high rainfall but every drop of potable water is relocated by a powerful multinational? Can water be treated as a saleable commodity? Shouldn’t be water free for all like the sunshine or the air we breathe in?
There are the answers the Mazahuas, an indigenous peasant tribe of Mexico and others like them all across the world seek. Over ten chapters, this powerful film essay chronicles a passionate yet even absurd open debate between the pillars of power, the policy makers, the men of science, the activists and the everyman-anyman against the global platform of the Fourth World Water Forum.
Distinctions
Rencontres Internationales du Documentaire de Montréal (2007)
Festival de films sur les droits de la personne de Montréal (2008)
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Saël Gueydan-Lacroix has a BA in Political Science from the University of Quebec in Montreal, where he specialized in Political Analysis and worked as a Teaching Assistant. He also has a College Accreditation in Film and TV Production from Institut Grasset as well as having studied video at University of Montreal. He's been directing documentaries for two years with a strong interest for Latin America and its political issues.
Frédéric Julien holds a BA in Political Science from the University of Quebec in Montreal where he specialized in Latin-American Studies. He has visited Mexico and Central America extensively, which has recently brought him to write as a correspondent for Alternatives, a weekly paper. During his last stay in Mexico, he took courses in Anthropological Documentary Film and also directed his first short film, Máximo, which won top honors at Festival de cinéma la Riviera maya, and was also selected for the Festival international de cinéma de Morelia.
