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East End Kids

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East End Kids
FrenchVues de l'est
Directed byCarole Laganière
Produced byNathalie Barton
CinematographyPhilippe Lavalette
Edited byFrance Pilon
Music byBertrand Chénier
Production
company
Release date
  • 2004 (2004)
Running time
52 minutes
CountryCanada

East End Kids (French: Vues de l'est) is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Carole Laganière and released in 2004.[1] The film profiles a group of children from the underprivileged Hochelaga-Maisonneuve area of Montreal, where Laganière herself was born, and features Laganière conversing with them about their hopes and dreams for the future.[2]

The participating children were Valérie Allard, Jean-Rock Beauregard, Maxime Desjardins, Vanessa Dumont, Samantha Goyer, Maxime Proulx-Roy and Marianne Racine.

It was a Jutra Award nominee for Best Documentary Film at the 7th Jutra Awards in 2005.[3]

East End Forever (L'Est pour toujours), a sequel film in which Laganière revisited the children in their teenage years, was released in 2011.[4] Maxime Desjardins-Tremblay became an actor, with credits including the films Mommy Is at the Hairdresser's (Maman est chez le coiffeur), Coteau rouge, 10½ and Flashwood.[5]

Following Laganière's death in 2023, the film received a special tribute screening at the Cinémathèque québécoise.

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