The Jean-Marc Vallée Audience Award of the Quebec City Cinema Festival (FCVQ) was awarded to the film “My City Expelled,” which gives a voice to the victims of the housing crisis currently afflicting the province.
“It is an honor for us to receive the Jean Marc Vallée Audience Award, especially since the competition this year was huge! Knowing that this award is a tribute to a director we admire who left far too soon, we hope the film pays tribute to him in our own way too. “My Fallen City is a film that comes from the heart and we hope that it continues to touch people,” explained the film’s two directors, Laurence Turcotte-Fraser and Priscillia Piccoli, as they received the statuette from the hands of Patrick Roy , President of Québec Cinéma and Alex and Émile Vallée, son of the filmmaker, accepted the award.
This 80-minute documentary, which had its world premiere at FCVQ on September 15, was selected from the 14 feature films in the running for this award, including feature films and documentaries.
Photo taken during the Jean Marc Vallée Audience Award ceremony at FCVQ © François Ozan
“The FCVQ public has spoken! And I think his choice is as great as it is unexpected. A social documentary, important, beautiful and in the humanistic tradition of our cinema. We can say that Jean-Marc is still there. May his work continue in all its breadth! Long live our national cinema!” declared Hugo Latulippe, the festival’s general director.
“My Repressed City” will be in cinemas from October 20th.