Watch The Downtown Project Online

watch The Downtown Project
The Downtown Project

The Downtown Project Online

  • Genres: Documentary
  • Release Date: 01/01/2011
  • Duration : 52 minutes
  • Director: Isabelle Longtin
  • Production: ONF | NFB
  • Country: Canada

Overview:

Just a stone’s throw from downtown Montreal is the largest social housing complex in Quebec. Built in 1959 where the red-light district used to be, Les Habitations Jeanne-Mance have retained something of the area’s seedy reputation for poverty, prostitution, drugs and violence. But who really knows the projects and the people who live there? Delving beneath the prejudices and stereotypes, director Isabelle Longtin ventured inside the buildings and met the residents.

keyboard_arrow_up