Guidelines (film)

Guidelines (French: La marche à suivre) is a 2014 Quebec feature-length documentary by Jean-François Caissy about adolescent students at the École Antoine Bernard high school in the rural community of Carleton-sur-Mer, in the Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine region. The film uses a fly on the wall style of documentary storytelling as it chronicles such issues as drug use, bullying and disruptive behaviour, while contrasting school life with the freedom of the outdoors. In conversations between teachers or social workers and students, Caissy often makes use of a fixed camera, so that voices of adult authority are off-screen and unseen.^[1][2]

Guidelines
Film poster
French	La marche à suivre
Directed by	Jean-François Caissy
Cinematography	Nicolas Canniccioni
Edited by	Mathieu Bouchard-Malo
Production company	National Film Board of Canada
Release date	February 11, 2014 (2014-02-11) (Berlin International Film Festival)
Country	Canada
Language	French

Caissy has stated that Guidelines is part of a series of films he plans to make on five stages of human life: childhood, adolescence, young adulthood, middle age as well as old age, which was the subject of his 2010 feature documentary La belle visite. Caissy grew up in the Gaspésie region, and was drawn to the Antoine Bernard school because it reminded him of his own experiences as a youth.^[3]

The film is produced by the National Film Board of Canada.^[1][2]

Release

Guidelines had its world premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival.^[3] Its awards include the World Pulse Award for best documentary at IndieLisboa [de],^[4] as well as Canadian Screen Award nominations for Best Feature Length Documentary, Best Editing in a Documentary (Mathieu Bouchard-Malo) and Best Cinematography in a Documentary (Nicolas Canniccioni) at the 3rd Canadian Screen Awards.^[5]

References

1. Catsoulis, Jeannette (25 May 2015). "Review: 'Guidelines' Is Jean-François Caissy's Look at High School". The New York Times. Retrieved 3 June 2015.
2. van Hoeij, Boyd (24 February 2014). "Guidelines (La Marche a suivre): Berlin Review". Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 3 June 2015.
3. Duschene, André (25 November 2014). "Jean-François Caissy: filmer les étapes de la vie". La Presse (in French). Retrieved 3 June 2015.
4. Duschene, André (4 May 2014). "La marche à suivre primé à Lisbonne". La Presse (in French). Retrieved 3 June 2015.
5. Ravindran, Manori (13 January 2015). ""Fermières," "Tehran" pick up Canadian Screen nods". Realscreen. Retrieved 3 June 2015.

External links

• Guidelines at IMDb
• Watch Guidelines on the NFB website