Colour Blind

Oujla-Chambers, Jinder, (film director.). Johnson, George, (film producer.). Eriksen, Svend-Erik, (film producer.). National Film Board of Canada (Montreal), (film producer.).

Summary: Colour Blind is a film about subtle racism and its daily impact on teenagers in high school. To outsiders, Princess Margaret Senior Secondary, in the heart of Surrey, BC, looks like an ordinary high school. To teachers and students, however, it was a school full of racial rage, segregation and violence. Its troubles began in 1995 when the predominately white student body became a predominately ethnic majority. Five years later, we follow five teenagers as they learn tolerance for each other's differences. Colour Blind documents that painful and confusing process of overcoming racial conflicts. The video's purpose is to encourage young students to examine their own behaviours and attitudes and to ask probing questions of themselves about how they react to racism within their own high school.

Record details

Physical Description: 1 streaming video (25 min., 42 sec.) : sound + 1 study guide
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Publisher: Montreal : National Film Board of Canada, 2011.
Copyright: ©1999

Content descriptions

General Note:	Agency - English program:.Animation, Children, Interactive Program - West. Study guide available.
Restrictions on Access Note:	Available to subscribers only.
Creation/Production Credits Note:	Director, Jinder Oujla-Chambers ; producer, George Johnson ; executive producer, Svend-Erik Eriksen ; script, Don White ; cinematography, James Tocher ; sound, Rick Bal ; editing, Debra Rurak ; sound editing, Patrick Haskill, Gina Mueller ; re-recording, Gashtaseb Ariana, Hennie Britton ; music, Sidney Perez.
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:	Recorded 1999.
Target Audience Note:	13-18.
System Details Note:	Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on online resource; title from title screen (National Film Board of Canada, viewed 2024-03-01).