Dear Jackie is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Henri Pardo and released in 2021.[1] Conceived as a love letter to Jackie Robinson, the film explores the way the city of Montreal used its embrace of Robinson, when he played for the Montreal Royals in the 1940s, to construct a mythical image of itself as a post-racial city that had moved beyond anti-black racism, even while Black residents of the city's Little Burgundy neighbourhood were still suffering profound effects of racism in reality.[2]

Dear Jackie
Directed byHenri Pardo
Written byHenri Pardo
Produced byKatarina Soukup
CinematographyVanessa Abadhir
Alex Margineanu
Edited byDominique Sicotte
Music byRamachandra Borcar
Production
company
CatBird Films
Distributed byCinema Politica
Release date
  • November 11, 2021 (2021-11-11) (RIDM)
Running time
90 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguagesEnglish
French

The film premiered at the 2021 Montreal International Documentary Festival,[3] where Pardo won the Magnus Isacsson Award for socially conscious works by emerging Canadian filmmakers.[4] It had a commercial release in June 2022.[2]

The film was a nominee for the Donald Brittain Award for best social or political television documentary at the 11th Canadian Screen Awards in 2023.[5]

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