Resurrecting Hassan
2016 Canadian film
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Resurrecting Hassan (French: La résurrection d’Hassan) is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Carlo Guillermo Proto and released in 2016.[1] The documentary centres on the Hartings, a family of blind musicians in Montreal who supported themselves by busking in the Guy–Concordia station of the Montreal Metro.[1]
Roxanne Sayegh
Pablo Villegas
Maria Paz Gonzalez
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| French | La résurrection d’Hassan |
| Directed by | Carlo Guillermo Proto |
| Written by | Carlo Guillermo Proto |
| Produced by | Carlo Guillermo Proto Roxanne Sayegh Pablo Villegas Maria Paz Gonzalez |
| Cinematography | Carlo Guillermo Proto |
| Edited by | Carlo Guillermo Proto Lorenzo Mora |
| Music by | Olivier Alary |
Production company | Handshake Productions |
| Distributed by | Les Films du 3 mars |
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Running time | 100 minutes |
| Country | Canada |
| Languages | English French |
The film premiered at the Montreal International Documentary Festival in November 2016.[2]
Awards
The film was screened at the 2017 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, where it won a Special Jury Prize.[3]
The film received two Canadian Screen Award nominations at the 6th Canadian Screen Awards, for Best Feature Length Documentary and Best Cinematography in a Documentary (Proto).[4] It won the Prix Iris for Best Documentary Film at the 20th Quebec Cinema Awards in 2018.[5]
Resurrecting Hassan was shortlisted for the Prix collégial du cinéma québécois in 2018.[6]
