Ninth Floor is a 2015 National Film Board of Canada documentary film written and directed by Mina Shum about the 1969 Sir George Williams affair, a student occupation led by Black West Indian-born students to protest alleged racism at the Montreal university.
- Genre : Documentary
- Country : Canada
- Language : English
- Director : Mina Shum
- Production : National Film Board of Canada (NFB)
- Distributor : National Film Board of Canada (NFB)
Ninth Floor movie
Ninth Floor release date
- September 10, 2015 : Canada (Toronto International Film Festival)
- September 26, 2015 : Canada (Vancouver International Film Festival)
Ninth Floor cast
- Mackenzie Gray as Voice Over (voice)
Ninth Floor documentary
The film’s producer, Selwyn Jacob, had long intended to make a film about the riot since his own university days when, as a student at the University of Alberta, Jacob had been impacted by the Montreal events-especially since one of the protestors had been from his own village in Trinidad.
In a 2015 interview on the NFB’s blog, Jacob recalled the very first time he’d heard about the Montreal unrest:
I learned about the events in a curious way, through one of my professors in Edmonton. I’d invited him to various Caribbean student events, and we’d become good friends. Then one morning, he turned to me in class and said, “Well, I hope we’re still friends.” I was puzzled by the remark, and it was only later, when I heard the news from Montreal, that I understood where his comment was coming from.
Jacob remained interested in producing a film on the riot for decades. In 2010, he raised the idea again at a programming meeting of the NFB’s Pacific & Yukon Studio in Vancouver. At the time, the studio had been considering a film adaption of a book about 1968 and Jacob believed the Sir George Williams Riot was “an interesting prism through which to look at that whole period in Canadian history.” Though working on Mighty Jerome at the time, he started actively researching the project.
Jacob first raised the project with Mina Shum at the Whistler Film Festival, where she was on a documentary jury. She initially wasn’t familiar with the riot but was immediately interested, and the two of them began a lengthy discussion about the project.
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