12 May Florelle Del Burgo is the third recipient of the (tri)Cycle 2024-2025 grant!
Main Film would like to congratulate Florelle Del Burgo and her short film project Petite Chose, the third recipient of the Tricycle grant for the year 2024/2025. Congratulations Florelle and a big thank you to our jury! Florelle will benefit from the advice of recognized professionals and free use of up to $10,000 in production equipment!
Soriane, 7 and a half, is waiting for her mother to pick her up after school. It’s not the first time she’s been late. To make up for the absence, she plays, transforming familiar places into a reassuring world. But a phone call shatters the illusion: she’s alone, and her mother may not be coming. Faced with this brutal reality, Soriane finds within herself a fragile but tenacious strength. Inspired by a real-life memory, Petite Chose is a dramatic 10-minute short film. It explores a child’s resilience in the face of abandonment, and how the imaginary becomes a survival mechanism.
Florelle Del Burgo
I’ve built my career over time, first through 17 years of competitive sports, then in youth work and now on film sets. With a degree in human relations from Concordia University, I first held management positions in sports and in planning cultural and artistic events.
After more than a decade in this environment, I decided to change direction and seized the opportunity to apply my skills in the world of film production. I quickly understood how the set worked, and had the chance to work as an assistant director on major American productions, then on more intimate projects: shorts, dance films, documentaries, music videos and international films. Every step of the way has nourished the background that shapes my vision today.
My path is guided by a constant desire for movement, curiosity and the search for meaning. Cinema still makes me travel – across territories and cultures, but also through others and myself. It allows me to discover other ways of telling stories, other ways of looking at the world. What moves me are silences, glances, details. I’m drawn to what goes unsaid. I like to keep moving, learning and reinventing myself.
Today, I develop projects at the crossroads of the intimate and the sensory, exploring childhood, memory and the plurality of identities through discreet but profound stories, where the body, the frame and silence speak differently.
(tri)Cycle support program
(tri)Cycle is a Main Film program that supports the creation of short fiction films. The program is open to independent filmmakers, regardless of experience. To be eligible, applicants must retain full creative and editorial control over all aspects of the project. In keeping with our organization’s mission, the aim of (tri)Cycle is to support, accompany and encourage independent filmmakers with a strong and bold artistic commitment.
Through this 4-month program, selected artists will benefit from expert advice from recognized professionals, as well as free access to $10,000 worth of film equipment!
This program supports 3 filmmakers per year, or one project per cycle. The project supported is determined by an external selection committee made up of a director, a producer and a member of a distribution company.
The deadline for the first cycle of 2025-2026 is June 1st 2025.