14 Mar Meeting Series: Alternate narrativities of Matthew Rankin & Ryan McKenna
14
Mar
Meeting Series: Alternate narrativities of Matthew Rankin & Ryan McKenna
Meetup - Fiction - Winter 2024
Thursday March 14, 2024
6 pm - 9 pm
Main Film
2025 Rue Parthenais #301, Montréal, Quebec, H2K 3T2, Québec
Free upon registration
SOLD OUT – WAITING LIST OPEN AT SERVICES@MAINFILM.QC.CA
The Meeting Series is an invitation to explore current challenges and themes within independent cinema.
This year’s theme, Expanded Narrativity, focuses on different ways and approaches to filmmaking.
Meeting Series.3 : Alternate narrativities of Matthew Rankin & Ryan McKenna
Quebec cinema is internationally renowned for its innovative storytelling. Among the province’s talented filmmakers, two names stand out for their singularity: Matthew Rankin (The Twentieth Century; Tesla: Lumière mondiale) and Ryan McKenna (Le Coeur de Madame Sabali; Promenades Nocturnes). Alternating between cinematographic genres from one film to the next, their works have been presented and rewarded at numerous festivals around the world.
In this masterclass, the filmmakers will share their creative process and talk about their many films (short and feature-length), the constraints they have encountered and the opportunities created by their alternative visions.
Matthew Rankin
ⒸAziz Zoromba
Matthew Rankin was born in Winnipeg and studied history at McGill and Université Laval. He has directed some 40 films (documentary, fiction, animation), which have been shown at Sundance, SXSW, TIFF, Annecy, the Berlinale and Critics’ Week in Cannes. He is currently working on his second feature film.
Ryan McKenna
Ryan McKenna is a Canadian filmmaker whose early work has been recognized for its visual comedy and dry humor, while his more recent work has explored experimental and hybrid approaches to narrative cinema. His feature films include The First Winter (2012), The Heart of Mrs. Sabali (2015), Cranks (2019), and Promenades nocturnes (2022), recipient of the Quebecor Broadcasting Award at the Festival du Nouveau Cinéma in 2022.