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The scouts

It's a straightforward testimony doc in a moment when testimony docs are everywhere—Vaillancourt doesn't seem interested in subverting the form, which is a shame, because the Sudbury specificity could've gone weird.

Vaillancourt situates intimate testimony within documentary's lineage of witness work, and the decision to center three voices in conversation—rather than isolate them—creates a compositional rigor that honors both individual experience and collective resonance.

The acoustic choice to let silence breathe between speakers, rather than layering them, does the heavy lifting here; it trusts the viewer to sit with each voice's weight rather than mediate it, and that formal restraint is what transforms earnestness into something actually moving.