''Mum's the Word'' () is a Canadian documentary short film, directed by

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and released on September 10, 1996."20 years after Maman et Eve: looking back on coming out in the Nickel City"
. CBC Sudbury, June 13, 2017. The film centres on Rachel, Suzanne, Jeannine and Paulette, four

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women in their mid-40s in

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, who, after marrying and raising children, are in the process of

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."Tourné à Sudbury, le documentaire Maman et Ève célèbre ses 20 ans"
. '' Le Matin du Nord'', June 13, 2017. The film won the

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for Best Short Documentary Film at the

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. The film premiered at the

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and the

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in September. The film received a 20th anniversary screening at Sudbury's

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in 2017. Paulette Gagnon, the development director of the city's

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project and the only one of the four women whose full name is known on the record, participated in media interviews to promote the screening; she also appeared in a smaller capacity in the 1999 documentary film '' The Pinco Triangle''. Gagnon died in October 2017, several months after the film screening, and the film was screened again at the Junction North International Documentary Film Festival in November 2017 as a memorial tribute to Gagnon."Sudbury doc festival bringing 'hot, hot films'"
. ''

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'', November 8, 2017.

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