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Anouk Deschênes
Anouk Deschênes is a Canadian film editor, who won the Prix Iris for Prix Iris for Best Editing in a Documentary, Best Editing in a Documentary at the 20th Quebec Cinema Awards in 2018 for her work on the film ''Manic (2017 film), Manic''. She was also nominated in the same category for ''Wintopia'' at the 23rd Quebec Cinema Awards in 2021, and has been a two-time Canadian Screen Award nominee for Canadian Screen Award for Best Editing in a Documentary, Best Editing in a Documentary at the 6th Canadian Screen Awards in 2018 for ''Manic'' and at the 12th Canadian Screen Awards in 2024 for ''The Longest Goodbye''. Originally from Sainte-Thérèse, Quebec, Sainte-Thérèse, Quebec, she is a graduate of the Université du Québec à Montréal. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Filmmaker Magazine
''Filmmaker'' is a quarterly publication magazine covering issues relating to independent film. The magazine was founded in 1992 by Karol Martesko-Fenster, Scott Macaulay and Holly Willis. The magazine is now published by the IFP (Independent Filmmaker Project), which acts in the independent film community. Background The magazine was launched in 1992, as a merger between the two magazines run by IFP (The Off-Hollywood Report, 1986-1992) and IFP/West ("Montage: the Unruly Magazine of Independent Film.") With a readership of more than 60,000, the magazine includes interviews, case studies, financing and distribution information, festival reports, technical and production updates, legal pointers, and filmmakers on filmmaking in their own words. The magazine used to be available outside the US in London but has not been on sale in the UK since early 2009. It has been printed on a regularly quarterly schedule, only missing one print release in the summer of 2020 during the global ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quebec
Quebec is Canada's List of Canadian provinces and territories by area, largest province by area. Located in Central Canada, the province shares borders with the provinces of Ontario to the west, Newfoundland and Labrador to the northeast, New Brunswick to the southeast and a coastal border with the territory of Nunavut. In the south, it shares a border with the United States. Between 1534 and 1763, what is now Quebec was the List of French possessions and colonies, French colony of ''Canada (New France), Canada'' and was the most developed colony in New France. Following the Seven Years' War, ''Canada'' became a Territorial evolution of the British Empire#List of territories that were once a part of the British Empire, British colony, first as the Province of Quebec (1763–1791), Province of Quebec (1763–1791), then Lower Canada (1791–1841), and lastly part of the Province of Canada (1841–1867) as a result of the Lower Canada Rebellion. It was Canadian Confederation, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From Sainte-Thérèse, Quebec
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Living People
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Canadian Film Editors
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The Sparkle
''The Sparkle'' () is a Canadian short documentary film, directed by Isabelle Grignon-Francke and released in 2023. The film centres on Kim Lalonde, a man who is working for a travelling summer carnival but torn as to whether to quit in order to pursue his personal passion for geology after Billy, his closest friend among his colleagues, is laid off. The film premiered at the 2023 Montreal International Documentary Festival The Montreal International Documentary Festival () is a Canadian documentary film festival, staged annually in Montreal, Quebec. In English, the festival now goes by the name Montreal International Documentary Festival, while retaining the French- .... ''CTVM'', November 2, 2023. Awards ...
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Mistral Spatial
''Mistral Spatial'' is a Canadian science fiction comedy-drama film, written and directed by Marc-Antoine Lemire and released in 2022. The film stars Samuel Brassard as Sam, a young man who breaks up with his girlfriend Cath (Catherine-Audrey Lachapelle); while walking home afterward, he loses consciousness for several hours, and begins to believe that he has been abducted by aliens. The cast also includes Alex Trahan, Véronique Lafleur, Marie Brassard, Ted Pluviose, Nathalie Claude, Joseph Bellerose, Pascale Drevillon, Sharon Ibgui, Manon Lussier, Ginette Chevalier, Anjo B. Arson, Jacques Piperni, Bernard Arene, Steve Berthelotte, Mario Diamond and Johanne Ductan-Petit. Production The film is told in three chapters, with the first depicting the initial breakup and Sam's loss of consciousness, the second depicting the initial aftermath in which Sam reaches and comes to terms with his conclusion that he was abducted, and the third centres on him admitting himself to a group thera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
See You Garbage!
''See You Garbage!'' () is a Canadian short comedy-drama film, directed by Romain Dumont and released in 2021. The film centres on Nino (Guillaume Laurin), Élle (Hamza Meziani) and Belz (Hamidou Savadogo), three garbage collectors from Montreal who have been unexpectedly invited to have Christmas dinner with the Prime Minister ( Steve Laplante) and his wife (Caroline Dhavernas) as part of a staged photo opportunity to show off how in touch the prime minister is with the common man, only for the dinner to go awry as their vastly different sets of social class values come into conflict. The cast also includes Ralph Prosper as the prime minister's bodyguard. The film premiered in September 2021 at the Trouville Off-Courts Film Festival in Trouville-sur-Mer, France, and had its Canadian premiere in the national short film competition at the 2021 Festival du nouveau cinéma. It was later screened at the 2022 Slamdance Film Festival, where it received an honorable mention for the Narra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brotherhood (2018 Film)
''Brotherhood (Ikhwène)'' is a short film, directed by Meryam Joobeur and released in September 2018."Portrait de Regard: Meryam Joobeur" '''', March 16, 2019. Summary The film explores the tensions within a Tunisian family when the biggest son, who has been away for one year, returns home with a new Syrian wife who wears the full , igniting his father's suspicions that his son has been working for the |
Pre-Drink
''Pre-Drink'' is a Canadian dramatic short film by Marc-Antoine Lemire, which won the Toronto International Film Festival Award for Best Canadian Short Film at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival. The film stars Alex Trahan as Carl and Pascale Drevillon as Alexe, a gay man and a transgender woman whose longtime friendship is complicated when they drunkenly decide to have sex. In December, TIFF named the film to its annual Canada's Top Ten list of the ten best Canadian short films. The film received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Canadian Screen Award for Best Live Action Short Drama, Best Live Action Short Drama at the 6th Canadian Screen Awards, and won the Prix Iris for Prix Iris for Best Live Action Short Film, Best Short Film at the 20th Quebec Cinema Awards. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inner Jellyfishes
''Inner Jellyfishes'' () is a Canadian short drama film, directed by Marc-Antoine Lemire and released in 2015. The film stars Rudi Duperré as a young gay man struggling with feelings of isolation who hooks up with another man (Samuel Brassard) for sex, but finds that the encounter intensifies rather than assuaging his loneliness as he experiences a desire for a deeper emotional connection than the hookup is willing or able to offer. The film's screenings included the 2015 Image+Nation festival and the 2015 San Francisco International Festival of Short Films, where it won the Vanguard Award. It was screened at BFI Flare in 2016 as part of a program of films about chemsex, with the website ''The Conversation'' praising it as one of the only films in the program that did not moralize the practice. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Université Du Québec à Montréal
The (UQAM; ), is a French language, French-language public university, public research university based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is the largest constituent element of the system. UQAM was founded on April 9, 1969, by the government of Quebec, through the merger of the , a fine arts school; the , a classical college; and a number of smaller schools. Although part of the UQ network, UQAM possesses a relative independence which allows it to choose its rector. In the fall of 2018, the university welcomed some 40,738 students, including 3,859 international students from 95 countries, in a total of 310 distinct programs of study, managed by six faculties (Arts, Education, Communication, Political Science and Law, Science and Social science) and one school (Management). It offers Bachelor's degree, Bachelors, Master's degree, Masters, and Doctor of Philosophy, Doctoral degrees. It is one of Montreal's two French-language universities, along with the , and only 1% of its stud ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
