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Creating a documentary podcast

Workshop - Documentary Cinema - Fall 2024

Sunday October 27, 2024
10 am - 5 pm

Main Film
2025 Rue Parthenais #301, Montréal, Quebec, H2K 3T2, Québec

With Nicolas Lachapelle (Retour à Normétal, Zug Island, Le monde après nous)

Member $120 | Non-member $160

Discreet on the airwaves, audio documentaries or documentary podcasts are increasingly finding their way into the programming schedules of radio stations, festivals and online platforms. They enable documentary filmmakers to explore new creative avenues and expand their storytelling skills. This theoretical workshop will enable you to develop your documentary podcast idea with the expertise of journalist, filmmaker and audio documentarist Nicolas Lachapelle.

Detailed schedule :

• Sunday October 27 from 10am to 5pm (in person)
• Tuesday October 30 from 6pm to 9pm (videoconference)

Material to send before October 10 2024 :

• Descriptive note on your career path
• Short synopsis of your podcast project (if any)

For any information, please send an email to : services@mainfilm.qc.ca

Nicolas Lachapelle

Nicolas Lachapelle is a journalist, filmmaker and audio documentarian. His work includes the feature-length documentaries Lumières sur l’eau (2015) and Le monde après nous (2020), the short films Zug Island (2022), Le punk de Natashquan (2024) as well as many audio creations like Du gaz dans le sang (2017), Og Doï (2020) and Par-delà la 138 (2020), Retour à Normétal (2023) and La chasse interdite (2024).

His works, which explore the relationship to territory through the themes of exile, rootedness and memory, have been presented at numerous festivals in Canada and internationally (including the Phonurgia Nova Awards). Recently, Nicolas was nominated for Best Documentary Short at the Gala Québec Cinéma and at the Canadian Screen Awards. He has also received several awards, including North Shore Artist of the Year in 2021 and Best First Documentary at Rendez-Vous Québec Cinéma in 2022. In the fall, he will publish his first book, a collection of photographs, with Noroît.

The documentary cycle continues throughout the fall! Visit our Workshops page to see the rest of the 2024 program.