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Ballades de minuit
Midnight Ballads
Directors and special guests will be present for the screening

Canada • 2007 • 53 min • doc. • v.o. espagnol, français • s.-t. f
Réal./Dir. : Scén./Script : Diego Briceño-Orduz Dir. Photo. : Tolga Kutluay • Son/Sound : Pablo Villegas Mont./Ed. : Guillermo López Pérez • Mus. : Roberto C. López • Prod. : Yanick Létourneau
   

 

When stores and offices close and most people go home to sleep, an invisible army of nightshift janitors moves in to clean. Midnight Ballads plunges into the reality of five hard-working Latino immigrants living in Montreal. By peering into their lives, we discover their stories made of discrimination, fights and torture, but also of happiness, determination and hope.

Selections
Providence Latino American Film Festival, USA ; ReelWorld Film Festival 2008, Toronto.

Diego Briceño-Orduz
Diego Briceño-Orduz is a Colombian-born director, editor and producer based in Montreal. Since 1996 he has been a very active film and video editor of both documentary and fiction. In 2000 he made his directorial debut with A Saddletree, which won Best Documentary at the Arrad International Film Festival (California). He went on to direct and write Things Never Said in Playa Perdida (2001), Souvenir Kids (2005) and Midnight Ballads (2007). He’s currently working on new fiction and non-fiction ventures.

  
 
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