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Mum's the Word (film)
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'Mum's the Word' is a Canadian documentary short film, directed by Paul Carrire and released on September 10, 1996.[http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/lgbt-film-airs-again-1.4158294 "20 years after Maman et Eve: looking back on coming out in the Nickel City"]. CBC Sudbury, June 13, 2017. The film centres on Rachel, Suzanne, Jeannine and Paulette, four Franco-Ontarian women in their mid-40s in Sudbury, Ontario, who, after marrying and raising children, are in the process of coming out as lesbian.[https://ici.radio-canada.ca/premiere/emissions/le-matin-du-nord/segments/entrevue/27618/lgbtq-queer-north-paulette-gagnon-maman-eve-paul-carriere "Tourn Sudbury, le documentaire Maman et ve clbre ses 20 ans"]. 'Le Matin du Nord', June 13, 2017.
The film won the Genie Award for Best Short Documentary Film at the 17th Genie Awards."1996 Genie Award winners". 'Toronto Star', December 1, 1996.
The film premiered at the Montreal World Film Festival in August 1996, and was screened at the 1996 Toronto International Film Festival and the Cinfest Sudbury International Film Festival in September.Nathalie Stephens, "Maman et ve : Quatre courageuses Sapphos". 'Liaison' (89), November 1996. pp. 67.
The film received a 20th anniversary screening at Sudbury's Queer North Film Festival in 2017. Paulette Gagnon, the development director of the city's Place des Arts project and the only one of the four women whose full name is known on the record, participated in media interviews to promote the screening; she also appeared in a smaller capacity in the 1999 documentary film 'The Pinco Triangle'. Gagnon died in October 2017, several months after the film screening,[https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/sudbury-paulette-gagnon-dead-1.4351478 "Paulette Gagnon, development director of The Place des Arts, dead at 62"]. CBC Sudbury, October 12, 2017. and the film was screened again at the Junction North International Documentary Film Festival in November 2017 as a memorial tribute to Gagnon.[https://www.thesudburystar.com/2017/11/08/sudbury-doc-festival-bringing-hot-hot-films/wcm/22b02d60-e9f9-b518-782c-d645abe82984 "Sudbury doc festival bringing 'hot, hot films'"]. 'Sudbury Star', November 8, 2017.
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