Casa, La


Release Information: February 17, 1987; Montréal (Outremont); Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC)

Budget: Budget: $300,000

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Executive Producer: Jacques Vallée; Jacques Vallée; Jacques Vallée; Jacques Vallée

87 minutes, 1986

Documentary

The daily life of a family of twenty-two living in a fragile home in the Cristo del Consuelo area of Guayaquil, Ecuador. The camera takes a closer look at Josefina, Ignacio and their five children as they are building a new bamboo hut along the Solado Estuary, a tributary of the Guayas River. This film, produced in honour of the International Year of Shelter for the Homeless, shows the magnitude of the problems faced by tens of millions of people living in South America’s slums.

Source: Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC)

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