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Welcome to Canada
Directed byJohn N. Smith
Written byJohn N. Smith
Sam Grana
Produced bySam Grana
CinematographyDavid De Volpi
Roger Martin
K. Shanmuganathan
Martin Duckworth
Edited byJohn N. Smith
Martial Éthier
Sam Grana

Production
company

National Film Board of Canada

Release date

  • 1989 (1989)

Running time

86 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

Welcome to Canada is a 1989 Canadian docufiction film directed by John N. Smith.[1] Loosely based on a real-life incident, the film depicts the interactions of a small community in Newfoundland with a group of Sri Lankan Tamil refugees who turn up in the town.[2] The film's cast includes Charlene Bruff, Madonna Hawkins, Nirmalan Masilamany, Anandprasad Pathanjali, Beverly Power, Francis Power, Rosie Power, Kumar Singam Nadarajah, Murugesu Sivanesan and Sinnakili Baskaran.

The film premiered at the Montreal World Film Festival in 1989,[3] and was screened at the 1989 Toronto International Film Festival.[4]

Smith received a Genie Award nomination for Best Director at the 11th Genie Awards in 1990.[5]

References

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  1. ^ "Looking at society with the eye of an outsider: For John N. Smith, movies have always been 'serious stuff'". The Globe and Mail, March 24, 1989.
  • ^ "John N. Smith's Welcome to Canada". Cinema Canada, November 1989. p. 23.
  • ^ "Festival Frenzy and Other News". Montreal Gazette, July 28, 1989.
  • ^ "Film festival to focus on NFB". Toronto Star, August 2, 1989.
  • ^ "Rundown on the Genie hopefuls". Edmonton Journal, February 14, 1990.
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