Polytechnique

On December 6, 1989, a lone gunman walked into Montréal s École Polytechnique (in Canada), a post-secondary institution focusing primarily in engineering, and began a shooting massacre. This event and its aftermath are shown from the perspective of three people. The first is the shooter himself, who blamed the problems in his life on who he considered feminists, such as female engineering students, who were his primary targets. This event was the culmination of a seven year plan, which had a self-defined end. The second is female mechanical engineering student Valérie, who earlier that day had an interview for her dream internship, working on an aerospace project. The interview process itself was a disturbing one for her in the stereotypical view by the male interviewer, who did not believe that females could work in the business and still have aspirations to have a family. And the third is Jean-François, Valérie s friend and fellow mechanical engineering student, who was one of the few who did whatever he could to help the targeted women. Written by Huggo Polytechnique is a 2009 French-language Crime Drama film featuring Maxim Gaudette, Sebastien Huberdeau, Karine Vanasse, Velyne Brochu, Johanne-marie Tremblay, Pierre-yves Cardinal and Michael Mast. Polytechnique was Produced by Don Carmody and Maxime R Millard. Polytechnique is written by Jacques Davidts and Denis Villeneuve and it is directed by Denis Villeneuve. Alliance Films acquired the distribution rights for the film. Polytechnique was released on 6th February 2009 in French and English languages and takes a screen time of 77 minutes. Polytechnique was made on a budget of $6 million and at the box office it grossed only $1 million. Cinematography was done by Pierre Gill and editing by Richard Comeau. The music was composed by Benoit Charest.
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