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The Things I Cannot Change

This film is considered to be the forerunner of the NFB's Challenge for Change Program. It is a look at the Bailey family, as seen from the inside. Trouble with the police, begging for stale bread, the birth of another child, and through it all, the father who tries to explains his family's predicament. Although filmed in Montreal, it's the anatomy of poverty as it occurs throughout North America.
Thomas Waugh, Ezra Winton, Michael Baker

Thomas Waugh, Ezra Winton, Michael Baker

Things I Cannot Change is not, strictly speaking, part of the CFC/SN program. While it is often held-up as the first film under the Challenge for Change banner and discussed as key component of the program's legacy, the film was completed as a pilot project and broadcast on CBC prior to the formal launch of CFC. It stirred a great deal of controversy with regards to the treatment of the poverty-stricken family at the centre of the film. According to contributor Marit Kathryn Corneil, "the outrage this caused at the NFB inspired some producers and filmmakers to rethink the ethics of documentary filmmaking in the context of community development, and this became the agenda for the experimental program in ethical documentary at CFC/SN."


Extrait de la sélection : Challenge for Change

Niveau scolaire 7 - 12

Civics/Citizenship / Human Rights

Family Studies/Home Economics / Family Diversity and Challenges

Social Studies / Social Policies and Programs

Guides pédagogiques

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  • bajangal

    bajangal

      «Someone please tell me where i can find the second video to this, The Courage to Change?»

    27 Jan 2012
  • Pictures

    Pictures

      «I am the granddaughter of Kenny's sister. I do not know my Great Uncles children. My understanding is that this film has been a painful smear for our families for many years and, in ways, continues to be. Never having known of the film, I came across it at age 19 on television. It was a shock. My heart goes out to my kin as they age with this film in their past, created without their control or consent...Im sure it has been an extremely heavy and, at times, painful burden. »

    20 Nov 2011
  • cinecritic

    cinecritic

      «Amazing to see this film again after so many years. We watched it at school around 1971 when I would have 11. It was enough to keep me from wanting to have children. Such utter misery. Some of the comments express pity for the father. I just felt sorry, scared and horrified for the children that were born to this poor ignorant couple who didn't equate too many children with poverty. Tragic.»

    27 Sep 2011
  • Anastasia

    Anastasia

      «wow this was sad to watch you can look in the husbands eyes of how much he wants to support his family and cant and while tryin to make a little living some jerk refused to pay him and winds up beatin him up, it was clear to see he was the victim all he wanted was his $6. It was not fair how all these witness was there and that criminal got away with beatin the poor man. It seems like history is still in our present cus people are still gettin wrongly accuse of crimes that they didnt commit.»

    4 Fév 2011
  • JBailey

    JBailey

      «I am the 11th child born and was in the second movie "the Courage to Change". »

    22 Oct 2010
    1 personne aime ca |
  • HBailey1966

    HBailey1966

      «This film is about my family. I'm the 10th child being born. »

    6 Oct 2010
    1 personne aime ca |
  • jmatlin

    jmatlin

      «Yes - the sequel was called Courage to Change.»

    7 Sep 2010
  • allseeingeye

    allseeingeye

      «Wasn't there a sequel made? it is an excellent doc , one of the best!»

    6 Sep 2010
  • Trig_Professor

    Trig_Professor

      «This is so sad how these people lived in Montreal back 1967. I was 11 yrs old when this took place and recall we went to Expo 67 that year. I am guessing this family never even went to Expo 67. Makes me want to cry! Poverty is a cancer in soceity»

    6 Jui 2010
    1 personne aime ca |

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