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Henri Pardo · 2021 · 1h30m
Dear Jackie is a cinematic letter to Jackie Robinson, the first African American player in Major League Baseball and a civil rights activist.
Thursday, Nov. 11, 8:00pm
World Premiere of DEAR JACKIE at RIDM
World premiere of Henri Pardo's DEAR JACKIE.
Admission
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Henri Pardo’s DEAR JACKIE premieres at the 24th annual Recontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal (RIDM) this month! The film will be screening at Cinéma du Musée on November 11, and streaming online between November 14 and 17.
When Jackie Robinson became the first Black man to join the Brooklyn Dodgers’ farm team, the Montreal Royals, in 1946, he broke the colour barrier in Major League Baseball. The impossible seemed possible in a segregated North America. But did Montrealers use this historic moment to perpetuate a myth of a post-racial society? Pardo’s much-anticipated documentary spotlights civil rights activism and perseverance against racial segregation in North American sports, telling a story that is woven into the legacy of Montreal’s Black community of Little Burgundy.
DEAR JACKIE is produced by Catbird Productions (FINDING SALLY), in association with documentary Channel, and with the financial participation of the Canada Media Fund, SODEC, Canadian Film or Video Tax Credit, Quebec Film and Television Tax Credit, and distributed in Canada by Cinema Politica.
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