Hello, my name is Justin A Klu, and I'm here today with Will Sloan.

And you're listening to The Important Cinema Club.

And today, we're doing an episode on Les Sinema di Quebec.

It's...

That's my Quebecois accent.

Now, Canada has two official languages, English and French. and the majority of people who speak French come from Quebec.

That's not where they all come from.

I'm from Ontario, so I'm a Franco-Ontarian, and there's people that are Acadian as well.

The Quebec film industry is interesting.

As we said last week, you know, one of the things about Canada is that most of

our population is English speaking and most of our population lives close to the U.S. border.

So we are very culturally similar to the United States and much of our popular culture is imported.

Most of our popular culture is imported from the United States. We do have our own TV

industry. We do have our own film industry. English-Canadian films are not particularly popular here,

although... They're not popular at all. A little movie called Passiondale. A little movie called

Duct Tape Forever. Yeah, but those were never popular or made money. That's the big difference.

They're not popular.

But there is a province that is not only sufficiently culturally dissimilar from the United

States, but also sufficiently culturally dissimilar from the rest of Canada to have its own

booming media ecosystem, a place that has its own talk show circuit, its own celebrities, its own

thriving film industry.

That does not cross over with the rest of Canada at all. So like when films open in Quebec,

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