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Who Shot My Brother?

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Who Shot My Brother?
FrenchQui a tiré sur mon frère?
Directed byCarmen Garcia
German Gutierrez
Written byCarmen Garcia
German Gutierrez
Produced byCarmen Garcia
Yves Bisaillon
Narrated byLuis de Cespedes
CinematographyGerman Gutierrez
Juan Cantero
Ricardo Restrepo
Edited byJean-Marie Drot
Music byJimmy Tanaka
Production
company
Argus Films
Distributed byNational Film Board of Canada
Release date
  • October 13, 2005 (2005-10-13) (FNC)
Running time
96 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguagesEnglish
Spanish

Who Shot My Brother? (French: Qui a tiré sur mon frère?) is a Canadian documentary film, directed by German Gutierrez and Carmen Garcia and released in 2005.[1] The film investigates an assassination attempt on Gutierrez's brother Oscar, a regional assemblyman and political activist in Colombia.

The film premiered at the 2005 Festival du nouveau cinéma, where it was the winner of the Radio-Canada People's Choice Award.[2] It subsequently had a limited theatrical release in Quebec,[3] before being distributed in the rest of Canada as an episode of the CBC Television documentary series The Passionate Eye in 2006.[4]

The film was a Prix Jutra nominee for Best Documentary Film at the 8th Jutra Awards in 2006.[5]

References

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  1. ^ John Griffin, "A sad, sad, story of brotherly love for a conflicted country". Montreal Gazette, December 9, 2005.
  2. ^ "FNC honours documentary". Montreal Gazette, October 25, 2005.
  3. ^ "Your complete guide to movies on screen". Montreal Gazette, December 10, 2005.
  4. ^ "An Arctic Sodom and the war between the sexes highlight coming week's TV". Prince George Citizen, April 27, 2006.
  5. ^ Marc-André Lussier, "C.R.A.Z.Y. et Maurice Richard mènent la course". La Presse, February 8, 2006.
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