The Ninth Floor Documentary

Director mina shum makes her foray into feature documentary by reopening the file on a watershed moment in canadian race relations the infamous sir george williams riot.

The ninth floor documentary.

Be cool youtube movies. A new documentary called ninth floor reconstructs the events known as the sir george williams affair the most dramatic and violent racial conflict in modern canadian history. 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. What came to be known as the computer riot a violent protest and sit in against racism at a montreal university is the subject of a new national film board documentary that premiered this week.

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