13 Mar Meeting Series : Masterclass with Sylvain Bellemare & Philippe Falardeau
13
Mar
Meeting Series : Masterclass with Sylvain Bellemare & Philippe Falardeau
Meetup - Fiction - Winter 2024
Wednesday March 13, 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.2 : The narrative roles of sound
Sound design is a crucial step in the final outcome of a film. Sylvain Bellemare, Oscar- and BAFTA-winning sound designer for Arrival (Denis Villeneuve, 2016), and Philippe Falardeau, screenwriter and director with an international career (My Salinger Year, 2020), began their mutual careers together 30 years ago. Since then, they have worked with many other sound artists through their respective disciplines. But what were the foundations of these successful collaborations?
In this master class, Sylvain Bellemare and Philippe Falardeau will discuss their creative visions, the integration of sound and/or image in their artistic approach, and the collaboration between the two professions.
Sylvain Bellemare
Sylvain Bellemare is a film sound designer. Active since 1993 in Quebec, French and American cinema, he has participated in over 150 fiction and documentary films. He also worked as a sound recordist on some fifteen projects from 1993 to 2007. Winner of 11 other awards for best sound, including the Oscar and Bafta for Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival. He also lectures on film sound.
Philippe Falardeau
Born in Hull on February 1, 1968, Philippe Falardeau studied political science at the University of Ottawa and international relations at Laval University in Quebec City. His first feature film, La moitié gauche du frigo (2000), won several major awards in Canada. In spring 2006, he presented his second feature Congorama at the Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes. His third feature, C’est pas moi, je le jure, won 13 international awards, including the Crystal Bear and the International Jury Prize at the Berlinale in 2009. In 2012, his fourth feature Monsieur Lazhar was distributed in some 50 countries, won some 20 international awards and earned an Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film. In 2013, he directed his first English-language film, The Good Lie, starring real South Sudanese refugees and Reese Witherspoon. In 2015, his sixth feature, Guibord s’en va-t-en guerre, had its world premiere at Locarno’s Piazza Grande. The Bleeder, his second American feature, was launched at La Mostra di Venezia in summer 2016 and stars Liev Schreiber, Naomi Watts and Elisabeth Moss. My Salinger Year starring Margaret Qualley and Sigourney Weaver opened the Berlinale in 2020. In 2022, he directed the series Le Temps des framboises, selected for the Berlinale Series, followed by the documentary series Lac-Mégantic in 2023, selected for Canneseries and Hot Docs, where he won the Audience Award.