What We Choose To Remember looks at Quebec’s history through the lens of waves of immigration, from historic Anglos who arrived centuries ago, to Allophones fleeing hardship after WWII, and recent immigrants attracted by Quebec’s French language and culture. Presented in 50 communities in every region of Quebec since it was released at the Hudson Film Festival in 2022, the film is thought-provoking, myth-busting, funny and surprising. Filmed on the 50th anniversary of the FLQ crisis, What We Choose To Remember film interviews members of families that chose to remain in Quebec during the turbulent years, as well as newer immigrants whose families arrived in successive waves of immigration and are happy to call Quebec their home.
What We Choose To Remember looks at Quebec’s history through the lens of waves of immigration, from historic Anglos who arrived centuries ago, to Allophones fleeing hardship after WWII, and recent immigrants attracted by Quebec’s French language and culture. Presented in 50 communities in every region of Quebec since it was released at the Hudson Film Festival in 2022, the film is thought-provoking, myth-busting, funny and surprising. Filmed on the 50th anniversary of the FLQ crisis, What We Choose To Remember film interviews members of families that chose to remain in Quebec during the turbulent years, as well as newer immigrants whose families arrived in successive waves of immigration and are happy to call Quebec their home.
The English-Language Arts Network (ELAN) is a not-for-profit organization that connects, supports, and creates opportunities for Quebec’s English-speaking artists and arts communities. ELAN members are individuals and organizations from a wide array of artistic disciplines, cultural and geographic backgrounds, and linguistic and cultural communities. ELAN is a meeting place for English-language artists and cultural workers, where they can share expertise and resources, build audiences and alliances, seek support and advocate for their interests.
A graduate of the playwriting program at the National Theatre School of Canada, Guy Rex Rodgers has worked in film and television and specialized in writing large-scale multimedia productions across Canada, as well as the US, Europe and the Middle East. In 2015 he was inducted as a companion in l’Ordre des arts et des lettres du Québec. Since 2020 Guy Rex Rodgers has written and directed eight documentary films about Anglos in Quebec in collaboration with the National Film Board of Canada, CBC and MAtv. For the past year he has toured the feature length documentary What We Choose to Remembe
