07 Apr Meeting Series : Body diversity on screen | Online
7
Apr
Meeting Series : Body diversity on screen | Online
Meetup - Fiction - Winter 2022
Thursday April 7, 2022
6 pm - 7 pm
Thursday April 7th from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Guests | Tatiana Zinga Botao, Tania Arana and Julie de Lafrenière
Moderator | Sabine Daniel
Free upon registration
A first for Main Film, the Meeting Series is a new monthly event that we are offering for free on various current issues and themes raised by independent cinema. For this new activity of 3 events, we have chosen the theme of Responsible Filmmaking.
Several professionals from the field will come and share their practices, visions and commitments to make their profession more fair and respectful of their environment. It is an invitation to discuss and reflect together on the cinema of tomorrow.
See you every 7th of the month during the fiction session (registration required)!
Meeting #3: Body diversity on screen
In the last few years, many social movements have emerged to denounce the lack of representation of all genders on our screens. Why should we always see the same models without representing the diversity of bodies in our daily lives? The cinematographic creation could have a role to play in the evolution of this observation in order to offer a more just, diversified and represented glance of our societies?
Come and discuss with Tatiana Zinga Botao, Tania Arana and Julie de Lafrenière these issues of representation.
For any information, please send an email to: services@mainfilm.qc.ca
Tatiana Zinga Botao
Tatiana is an actress, writer, director and graduate of the Conservatoire d’art dramatique de Montréal. In film, Tatiana starred in Marilyn Cooke’s cherche femme forte, Anne Emond’s Jeune Juliette, and has just finished shooting Philippe Cormier’s Le purgatoire des intimes. In the theater, she has played at the TNM in Lysis (Lorraine Pintal), Coriolan (Robert Lepage). Tatiana joined the cast of l’éneide D’olivier Kemeid at the Quat’sous and of ceux qui se sont évaporés at the CTDA. (Sylvain Belanger). In the coming months, she will be back at the CTDA in Rebecca Deraspe’s new creation, les filles du Saint laurent. She is currently an associate artist at the Théâtre du Quat’sous. Her artistic approach consists in decolonizing the arts, that is to say, redefining conventions, moving barriers, and introducing new aesthetics.
Tania Arana
After studies in communication and theater and following a first collaboration with Maïmouna Doucouré, Tania Arana specializes in casting outside the agency to find new talents such as Fathia Youssouf, rewarded by the Cesar of the best hope in “Mignonnes”. Today, she works between France and Quebec in cinema and web-series.
Julie de Lafrenière
Coming from a background in dance, Julie graduated from the National Theatre School of Canada’s French acting program in 2009 which confirmed her decision to embark on an acting career. Since then, she has portrayed many roles both on stage and on camera, but also has been a part of creative teams backstage as director and choreographer. This led her to write and direct her first short film during Montreal’s 2015 edition of Kino Kabaret. After multiple experiences as a film director, Julie has developed a passion for directing actors and continues to do so, whether directing and producing demo reels or being hired as an acting coach on TV sets.
Moderator : Sabine Daniel
Born in Montréal, the daughter of Haitian immigrants, and raised in Ottawa, Sabine’s goal is to create content focused on impactful, universal, and unconventional human stories for all audiences. Through her production company, SDMedia Inc, she produced Suivez-moi, ADN Ottawa and her award-winning web series, Piégé.