
10 English-language students were nominated for outstanding essays about their sense of belonging in Quebec. Each of them had a dream project they hoped to carry out. Members of the public watched the videos, learned about the projects and voted for their favourite. The student who got the most views, comments and likes was announced on April 2.
This project was made possible by a grant from the Government of Canada.
The winner is Gloria-Sherryl François, a student in art history and psychology at McGill University, for her project The Black Book initiative.
This project aims to create an interactive, online archive to improve representation of Black people in the history of Quebec.
She received a $5,000 grant to turn her dream into reality, for the benefit the Anglophone community and Quebec as a whole.
You can now follow her as a correspondent for the Blue Metropolis Festival with her brand new series “Les péripéties de G L O W Z I”
Congratulations to all the 2020 finalists. You can discover or rediscover their projects by watching their videos or read the blog of Brennan McKracken about our finalists HERE.

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Meet the mentors
Camille Trudeau-Rivest : Videographer
After graduating from a Bachelor in Film Production at Concordia University in 2013, Camille left to travel and film in Argentina, Bolivia and Mexico for more than two years. The creation and dissemination of cinematographic art always remains a goal and a dream. Her master’s in communications and digital arts enriches her projects and inspires her vision of cinema and the arts. Working with children and adolescents is also a passion; she teaches and animates in schools to develop the creativity of young people in Montreal and elsewhere.

Monique Polak : Author
Monique Polak is the author of 26 books for young people. Her spring 2019 titles are I Am a Feminist: Claiming the F-Word in Turbulent Times, and Princess Angelica, Part-Time Lion Trainer. Monique is a two-time winner of the Quebec Writers’ Federation Prize for Children’s and Young Adult Literature. Monique has been teaching at Marianopolis College for 32 years. She is also a freelance journalist whose stories have appeared in the Montreal Gazette and in Postmedia publications across the country. Monique is a columnist on ICI-Radio Canada’s Plus on est de fous, plus on lit!

Ingrid Bejerman
Ingrid Bejerman is a journalist, scholar and cultural promoter specializing in cultural reportage, Latin American matters, and journalism training. She served as reporter and columnist for the leading São Paulo daily O Estado de S. Paulo in Brazil, as programme coordinator for the Gabriel García Márquez Foundation for Journalism in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, and as director of the Cátedra Latinoamericana Julio Cortázar at the University of Guadalajara, Mexico. She is a programming consultant for prestigious literary events in the Americas, and programming associate for Blue Metropolis, the Montreal International Literary Festival. Bejerman holds a doctorate degree from McGill University, where her work focuses on the institutionalization and professionalization of journalism. She teaches courses in journalism theory at Concordia University, and currently coordinates the Canada in the Americas initiative at the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada.
