16 Feb Discussion: First feature film | Hybrid
16
Feb
Discussion: First feature film | Hybrid
Meetup - Fiction - Winter 2023
Thursday February 16, 2023
6 pm - 9 pm
Main Film
2025 Rue Parthenais #301, Montréal, Quebec, H2K 3T2, Québec
Guests | Caroline Monnet (Bootlegger), Étienne Galloy (La Marina), Kaveh Nabatian (Sin la Habana), Ariane Falardeau St-Amour & Paul Chotel (Desvío de Noche)
Moderator | Paul Landriau
Free upon registration
Many directors have gone through the experience of making a short film before making a feature. Making a first feature film involves real strategic, artistic and human challenges that are difficult to anticipate. What are the major challenges to be met during this transition which sometimes requires several years and often must be made with a limited budget.
Come meet directors Caroline Monnet, Étienne Galloy, Kaveh Nabatian, Ariane Falardeau St-Amour and Paul Chotel who will share their visions and personal experiences of a crucial stage in a filmmaker’s career. You will share their views on the writing of the script, the experience on the set, the preparation of the production and the distribution of their work.
A precious moment of exchange for any filmmaker or film lover who wants to know what goes on behind the scenes.
Meeting will be in French but question may be asked in English
For more information, please send an email to: services@mainfilm.qc.ca
Étienne Galloy
Acteur au Québec depuis plusieurs années, Étienne commence à écrire et réaliser des films pour le plaisir, jusqu’à ce que ça en devienne une passion. Après Tandem, son premier court métrage de 5 minutes, qui a connu un beau succès en festivals, Étienne Galloy devient l’un des plus jeunes récipiendaires du programme “Talents en vue” de Téléfilm Canada. Il réalise alors son premier long métrage La Marina avec Christophe Levac en 2019 et est distribué en 2021 par Les Films Opales. Après plusieurs festivals à l’international et quelques prix, La Marina est maintenant disponible pour tous sur la plateforme CRAVE. Son dernier court métrage, Je suis amoureux de mes souvenirs, réceptionnaire de plusieurs prix et mentions, marque le début de sa carrière solo et s’inscrit pleinement dans le style de cinéma qui l’intéresse.
Kaveh Nabatian
Kaveh Nabatian is an Iranian-Canadian who has directed fiction films, music videos, and documentaries all over the world: from Nunavut, Haiti, India, and Cuba, to his home in Montreal. Kaveh also composes and plays trumpet in Juno Award-winning band, BELL ORCHESTRE. Recent projects include orchestrating an omnibus experimental feature in THE SEVEN LAST WORDS, a feature documentary about Leonard Cohen in A CRACK IN EVERYTHING, SIN LA HABANA, his first fiction feature, whic tells the story of an Afrocuban ballet dancer who seduces a tourist in search of a better life. He has also collaborated with musicians and dancers, including Arcade Fire, Leif Vollebekk, and Half Moon Run. His award-winning films, which combine evocative imagery and sound with deeply human stories, deal with people on the margins of society.
Ariane Falardeau St-Amour
Ariane Falardeau St-Amour is a Montreal-based director, cinematographer and producer. In 2018, she produced and signed the photo of a first feature film, Mad Dog Labine (2018), recipient of the Grand Prix Focus Québec/Canada of the Festival du Nouveau Cinéma and of the Gilles-Carle prize of the Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois. In 2020, she co-directed and shot her first feature film, Desvío de noche.
Paul Chotel
Born in Paris, Paul Chotel graduated from the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema in 2015. He has since collaborated on a multitude of projects as a writer, editor, director and producer, having co-written and co-produced Écume (2020), which had its world premiere at the 70th Berlinale and was nominated for Canada’s Top Ten at TIFF. Desvío de noche is his first feature film as co-writer-director.
Modération : Paul Landriau
© Myriam Baril-Tessier
Paul Landriau is the director of programming for the Quebec City Film Festival (FCVQ). He has been working in the Quebec film community for the past 15 years. In 2012, he founded the cult blog Point de vues and in 2016 co-founded the Plein(s) Écran(s) festival, the world’s first Facebook-based film festival. He has also been a critic, president of the Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma, program director of Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma, host, panelist and project manager in digital distribution at difuze. He currently sits on the board of directors of the Antitube diffusion organization, which has just inaugurated the Circuit Beaumont movie theatre.
Health measures related to COVID-19:
- Wearing a mask is at the discretion of the participants. However, Main Film recommends that you wear it at least when you go inside.
- Participants will be required to disinfect themselves upon entering the center and before touching the equipment. A hydroalcoholic solution will be provided.
- Participants will be asked to limit their movements.
- Participants may use the washrooms.