Resurrecting Hassan | |
Native Name: | |
Director: | Carlo Guillermo Proto |
Producer: | Carlo Guillermo Proto Roxanne Sayegh Pablo Villegas Maria Paz Gonzalez |
Music: | Olivier Alary |
Cinematography: | Carlo Guillermo Proto |
Editing: | Carlo Guillermo Proto Lorenzo Mora |
Studio: | Handshake Productions |
Distributor: | Les Films du 3 mars |
Runtime: | 100 minutes |
Country: | Canada |
Language: | English French |
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]
The film premiered at the Montreal International Documentary Festival in November 2016.[2]
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]