The Ninth Floor Documentary

What came to be known as the computer riot a violent protest and sit in against racism at a montreal university is the subject of a new national film board documentary that premiered this week.

The ninth floor documentary.

Director mina shum makes her foray into feature documentary by reopening the file on a watershed moment in canadian race relations the infamous sir george williams riot. Be cool youtube movies. Ninth floor trailer festival 2015 duration. A new documentary called ninth floor reconstructs the events known as the sir george williams affair the most dramatic and violent racial conflict in modern canadian history.

It was 1969 in. Ninth floor is a 2015 national film board of canada documentary film written and directed by mina shum about the 1969 sir george williams affair a student occupation led by black west indian born students to protest alleged racism at the montreal university.