Your Call Is Important To Us
by Joe Nadeau, Romy Boutin St-Pierre
2024, Canada, 8 mins
7:15 PM on Sept 20, 2024
About the movie
People from diverse backgrounds call various government departments looking for answers to their bureaucratic problems. Through the comic
absurdity of their discussions with this government machine, tragic situations emerge. The eight-minute staged documentary “Your call is important to us” exposes the systemic discriminations generated by rigid Canadian institutional authorities that are out of touch with everyday reality.
About the directors
Romy Boutin St-Pierre
As a fiction and documentary filmmaker, Romy Boutin St-Pierre is interested in social depolarization,
cultural relativism and the plurality of perspectives. With a bachelor’s degree in international relations,
a diploma in Arabic language and two years’ experience as a video journalist at Radio-Canada, her
interest in the diversity of perspectives led her to pursue her production experience and film studies in
Quebec, Lebanon and Morocco.
Joe Nadeau
Joe Nadeau is an emerging multidisciplinary artist from Edmundston, New Brunswick. In 2022, they graduated from the University of Moncton, in Moncton New-Brunswick with a Bachelor’s degree in Dramatic Arts. Since then, they navigate the cultural scene of Moncton between theater and film, acting and creation. Most recently, their film GendrBendr won the Prix La Vague for best Acadian short film at the 36th Festival international du cinéma francophone en Acadie (FICFA).