Canadian film-makers
Danièle Lacourse and Yvan Patry have shot several documentaries together about
the populations in the the world who underwent the tragedy of Civil war: The Dirty war on Nicaragua (1984); Night and Silence on Eritrea and Etiopia
(1980); Denial about Salvador (1994);
Chronicle of a Genocide Foretold on
Rwanda (1996), which won the Chalmers Award and the Hot Docs First Award. All
their works have been written, directed and produced independently, thanks to
the production company Alter-Ciné founded by them in 1982. Alonso's Dream is the last documentary shot by Yvan Patry before
his death on October 14th 1999.
