Director
Pierre Marier
Production
Pierre Marier (Les films du tricycle)
Languages
French, English
99 min, Documentary, Quebec, Canada, 2015
The fife and work of a Franco-American some called a political prisoner, others a domestic terrorist.
Synopsis
Put on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list in 1977 for his involvement in bombings by the radical Marxist group United Freedom Front, Vietnam veteran Raymond Luc Levasseur was arrested in 1984, charged with bombings and bank robery and sentenced to 45 years in prison. From his cell in 1992, Levasseur wrote a personal essay, My Blood is Québécois, in which he traced his rebellion and radicalization to growing up as a Franco-American “frog” in a small town in Maine, the descendant of Quebec immigrants who’d come south to work as mill workers. Released on parole in 2004, Levasseur returned to live in Maine; today he looks back on his life.
Credits
Screenplay and Direction : Pierre Marier
Direction of Photography : Thomas Szacka-Marier
Editing : Martine Cossette
Sound Recording : Pierre Marier
Sound Design : Catherine Van Der Donckt
Sound Mixing : Catherine Van Der Donckt
Music : Colin Stetson, Sarah Neufeld
Distribution : Les Films du 3 mars
Production : Pierre Marier (Les films du tricycle)
Financial Partners
Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec
SODEC
PRIM
ACIC
CALQ
Pierre Marier
Specialized in documentary filmmaking, Pierre Marier collaborated on projects with Yvan Patry, which brought him to shoot several documentaries in Central America, including Paz Si, Guerra No! (1986), Of Lives Uprooted (1987), The Streets of San Salvador (1991). Over a period of fifteen years, Marier directed television episodes for series which address questions of cultural diversity in contemporary Quebec. Since then, he has dedicated himself mostly to producing independent documentary films for Les films du tricycle : The Legacy of Oka Trappists (2008), Augustians, Body and Soul (2010), Fighting through the Night (2016) and directed An American, Portrait of Raymond Luc Levasseur (2015).
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Hors des sentiers battus, 20 x 52 min, 2000
Pareil, pas pareil, 22 x 8 min, 1999
On a marché sur la terre, 10 x 52 min, 1996
Kilomètres / Heure, 32 x 52 min, 1995
The Streets of San Salvador, 24 min, Documentaire, 1992
Of Lives Uprooted, 10 min, Documentaire, 1987
Paz Si, Guerra No!, 60 min, Documentaire, 1986