Louise-Édith Hébert and Marguerite Bilodeau, photo Marie-Pierre Savard
Over the past two weeks, we launched my French-language film on the Raging Grannies and Mémés Déchaînées, Les super-mémés. It premiered on the 20th of March as closing film for the Human rights film festival in Montreal, at the Park Cinema, and we had another launch screening in Quebec City at the Musée de la Civilisation. The film was produced by Isabelle Couture at Films de l’Isle and is distributed by Vidéo-femmes, based in Quebec City. We were able to make the film thanks to the support of Canal Vie, and more precisely Line Richard, now at the French production branch at the NFB. For several years, Line was the only person in the television world who supported this project while it was turned down by numerous English-language broadcasters. It is very heartwarming, after all the difficulties we had finding the funding, to see that the film is very well received both by journalists and audiences. Radio Host Paul Houde at FM 98,5 said: ‘This is a super film which makes you feel like being more of a delinquent as you grow old.’
