Évènement à venir
- Focus Docu: 1st feature documentary film - November 16, 2023 - 6 pm - 9 pm
- Focus Docu: Audio documentary - October 19, 2023 - 6 pm - 8 pm
- Focus Docu: Family intimacy in documentaries - November 2, 2023 - 6 pm - 9 pm
- Meet&Greet: Film Factory - December 14, 2023 - 6 pm - 8 pm
- Project description (max. 10 pages) :
- Short biography
- Project concept and objectives
- Detailed timetable
- Support material
- Equipment list (equipment – production/postproduction, materials and training required) → catalog of our equipment / training offered at Main Film
- CV (max. 3 pages)
16
Nov
Focus Docu: 1st feature documentary film
Meetup - Documentary Cinema - Fall 2023
Date / Heure
16 November 2023
6 pm - 9 pm
Lieu
Main Film
2025 Rue Parthenais #301, Montréal, Quebec, H2K 3T2, Québec
With Justine Harbonnier (Caiti Blues), Maude Plante-Husaruk (Au-delà des hautes vallées) & Dominique Chaumont (VERANADA)
Free upon registration
This event is co-presented by Film Pop MTL.
Focus Docu is a new kind of gathering to explore documentary film topics in depth.
This year’s theme, Stories of Women Directors, highlights talented independent filmmakers.
Focus Docu.3 : 1st feature documentary film
Making your first feature film involves real strategic, artistic and human challenges that are difficult to anticipate. What are the major challenges involved in this transition, which sometimes takes several years and often has to be made on a limited budget?
Meet directors Justine Harbonnier (Caiti Blues), Maude Plante-Husaruk (Au-delà des hautes vallées) and Dominique Chaumont (VERANADA), who will share their visions and personal experiences of a crucial stage in a filmmaker’s career.
An invaluable discussion forum for all filmmakers and film buffs who want to know what’s really at stake in producing a first feature film.
Discussion will be in French but questions may be asked in English.
For more information, please contact services@mainfilm.qc.ca
Justine Harbonnier
Ⓒ Léa Rener | ACID Cannes 2023
After completing her studies in literature, Justine made her first short films independently. Screened at numerous festivals and art centers, her films explore themes of self-seeking (Il y a un ciel magnifique et tu filmes Angèle Bertrand, 2014) and the social transformation of a territory (Andrew Keegan déménage, 2016). His debut feature Caiti Blues (2023) continues to explore these reflections.
Maude Plante-Husaruk
Maude Plante-Husaruk is a documentary filmmaker and photographer who portrays the realities of reclusive or marginalized populations, sensitive to human resilience in the face of adversity. Following the success of her first short film Le Botaniste (Hot Docs, TIFF Top Ten, AFI Docs and Best National Short at RIDM), in 2021 she co-directed her first feature documentary, Au-delà des hautes vallées, which won the Nouveaux regards award at RIDM.
Dominique Chaumont
Canadian, Argentinian and French director and producer. She was born and raised in San Rafael, a small town in the province of Mendoza, Argentina near the Andes Mountains. She studied film production at the Universidad Nacional de las Artes in Buenos Aires. She lives and works in Toronto, Canada.
19
Oct
Focus Docu: Audio documentary
Meetup - Documentary Cinema - Fall 2023
Date / Heure
19 October 2023
6 pm - 8 pm
Lieu
Main Film
2025 Rue Parthenais #301, Montréal, Quebec, H2K 3T2, Québec
With Jenny Cartwright & David Cherniak (Debouttes !, Bienvenue aux dames)
Free upon registration
Focus Docu is a new kind of gathering to explore documentary film topics in depth.
This year’s theme, Stories of Women Directors, highlights talented independent filmmakers.
Focus Docu.1 : Audio documentary
Sound creation – whether fiction, documentary or field recording – is flourishing in French-speaking Europe. Quebec is slowly following suit, and new avenues are opening up for the genre: public listening evenings are taking place, festivals are being organized and others are integrating sound documentaries into their programming. And the audience is there. But while the production of talk show-style podcasts is on the rise, there are still few Quebec productions making their mark in the world of sound documentaries. But not all stories need images to be told.
In this informal conversation, documentary filmmakers and audio artists Jenny Cartwright and David Cherniak draw on their practice and case studies to reflect on sound documentary, its production, distribution and form.
Discussion will be in French but questions may be asked in English.
For more information, please contact services@mainfilm.qc.ca
Jenny Cartwright
Jenny Cartwright explores themes of self-determination and inequality through subjects such as gentrification, activism, work and poverty. It is through this bias towards the sidelined that she attempts to combine poetry and manifestos. In 2019, she produced her first sound documentary, Debouttes!, which won the NUMIX award for best podcast in the history category. With this project, she discovers a medium reminiscent of literature in its strong evocative power: it’s love at first sight, and sound creation becomes her medium of choice. In 2022, Quels morceaux de nous a-t-elle emporterés avec elle? won the NUMIX international award in the immersive sound experience category. Jenny is co-programmer of the ÉCOUTE section of tënk.ca.
David Cherniak
David Cherniak collaborates on numerous visual arts and documentary projects, designing professional production workflows. The documentary Je me souviens d’un temps où personne ne joggait dans ce quartier (RIDM 2020, Doc-Cévennes) was his first feature-length film as director of photography, and led to the NFB production of Jenny Cartwright’s La Course. At the same time, he developed a multifaceted sound practice, co-directing his first sound documentary, Bienvenue aux dames, which was in competition at the Longueur d’ondes 2020 festival in Brest. He is currently developing immersive sound fiction projects as a producer.
2
Nov
Focus Docu: Family intimacy in documentaries
Meetup - Documentary Cinema - Fall 2023
Date / Heure
2 November 2023
6 pm - 9 pm
Lieu
Main Film
2025 Rue Parthenais #301, Montréal, Quebec, H2K 3T2, Québec
With Claudie Lévesque (Ma famille en 17 bobines) & Rozenn Potin (Les Mondes de Vincent)
Free upon registration
This event is co-presented by Films du 3 Mars.
Focus Docu is a new kind of gathering to explore documentary film topics in depth.
This year’s theme, Stories of Women Directors, highlights talented independent filmmakers.
The films discussed will be available for free from October 19 to November 9, 2023 on the Films du 3 Mars VOD platform.
Focus Docu.2 : Family intimacy in documentaries
Documentaries, by definition, intrude on the intimacy of their protagonists. What about your own family? How do you approach the creative process of your film while wearing the double hat of director and parent of your subjects?
Rozenn Potin and Claudie Lévesque will share their artistic motivations, their personal and professional involvement in the development and production process, and the impact the film has had on their families and friends.
Discussion will be in French but questions may be asked in English.
For more information, please contact services@mainfilm.qc.ca
Claudie Lévesque
Claudie Lévesque lives in Montreal and has been working in the media arts for over twenty years. She collaborates with several organizations and regularly sits on various film and video selection committees. In parallel, she pursues a career as a filmmaker. Her practice extends to experimental cinema and video art. Between 2005 and 2008, she took part in spontaneous creations (Montréal S8 and One Take S8) using her preferred film medium, Super 8. Here, she produced short films shot on location, including MAGIE BLANCHE (2005), starring her daughter. In the form of portraits or self-portraits, her works deal with intimate subjects involving herself or those close to her. She has made over a dozen short films, including an experimental documentary entitled MA FAMILLE EN 17 BOBINES (2011), which has been shown at numerous festivals (RIDM, Visions du Réel in Switzerland).
Rozenn Potin
Diplômée en sciences politiques, Rozenn Potin s’est faite contaminée par la gang de Kino en 2004! Membre active de ce mouvement ainsi que du centre d’artistes Vidéo Femmes à Québec, elle y a réalisé près d’une quinzaine de courts-métrages. Du documentaire à la fiction, sa sensibilité féminine et sa curiosité politique guident son travail. Elle sort en 2011 son premier moyen métrage, Attention Féministes! Elle termine en 2016 son premier long-métrage Les mondes de Vincent, un portrait sensible de son frère Vincent, qui vit avec la schizophrènie.
14
Dec
Meet&Greet: Film Factory
Meetup - Documentary Cinema - Fall 2023
Date / Heure
14 December 2023
6 pm - 8 pm
Lieu
Main Film
2025 Rue Parthenais #301, Montréal, Quebec, H2K 3T2, Québec
With Marie-Noëlle Moreau Robidas, Sarah Seené, Pablo Alvarez-Mesa & Celia Perrin Sidarous
Free upon registration
Meet 4 recipients of the 2022-2023 Film Factory program who received support from Main Film for a one-year residency in experimental film research or production!
From the application process to the screening of their films at numerous festivals, as well as their experimentation throughout the residency, discover the different stages of their work and the benefits of the program through their experience.
A great opportunity if you’re planning to submit your application to the 2024-2025 Film Factory !
Next application deadline: January 2024
Meeting will be in French but question may be asked in English
For more information, please send an email to: services@mainfilm.qc.ca
Application content :
Marie-Noëlle Moreau Robidas – Carnets Météorologiques
Marie-Noëlle Moreau Robidas completed a bachelor’s degree in animation at Concordia University in 2016. Her student short, Quid (2015), was presented at numerous festivals in Quebec and Canada. Her first professional film, Triangle noir (2022), was nominated for a Canadian Screen Award and won the Prix du public at the Sommets du cinéma d’animation. Born in 1989, she lives and works in Montreal as a composition artist.
Halfway between video-poem and documentary, CARNETS MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES is a series of short vignettes designed to reflect aloud on our relationship with the climate, to apprehend its vocabulary through the sensory, and to explore its narrative.
Sarah Seené – Orbites
Sarah Seené is a Montreal-based photographer and filmmaker (Tiohtià:ke) who works with analog media. At the crossroads of documentary and portraiture, her artistic practice draws its essence from the exploration of the human and the intimate. Her various photographic and cinematographic projects are grounded in her personal reflections on intersectional feminism and antivalidism. Her work questions the representation of disabled bodies, chronic suffering and mental health through poetic, dreamlike imagery.
Her short films have been screened at a number of film festivals, including the Rencontres Internationales du Documentaire de Montréal – RIDM (Canada), the Sheffield doc fest (England), the Festival du Nouveau Cinéma – FNC (Canada), and the Ann Arbor Film Festival (USA).
Pablo Alvarez-Mesa – The Soldier’s Lagoon
Pablo Alvarez-Mesa‘s films have played at international film festivals including Berlinale, IFFR, MoMA Doc Fortnight, Visions du Réel, and RIDM. His most recent film, Bicentenario, explores Simón Bolívar’s battles of Independence, and was played at the 2021 Berlinale, MoMA Doc Fortnight and Viennale, among other festivals. It earned a Jury Mention at Festival Punto de Vista in the Main Competition. Pablo is also a cinematographer and editor, with recent work as cinematographer for Fire of Love, directed by Sara Dosa, and additional editor for Geographies of Solitude, directed by Jacquelyn Mills. He is currently editing with Sofia Bohdanowicz her new feature film Opus 28.
Pablo is currently in post production of his upcoming film The Soldier’s Lagoon which was recently awarded with The Docs in Orbit Invitation Award at the Docs in Progress showcase at Cannes. Pablo’s interest in documentary lies in the relationship between facts and fiction; between what is recalled and what is inevitably constructed. His films touch in one way or another, issues of displacement, history and collective memory.
Celia Perrin Sidarous – Vessels for a film
Celia Perrin Sidarous (1982) is an image-based artist living and working in Montréal. Her works have been featured in numerous solo and collective exhibitions in Canada and abroad : Foreman Art Gallery (Sherbrooke), McCord Museum and Centre CLARK (Mont- réal), Embassy of Canada Prince Takamado Gallery (Tokyo), Norsk Billedhoggerforening (Oslo), CONTACT Photography Festival (Toronto) and FOCUS Photography Festival (Mumbai), 8-11 and The Plumb (Toronto), Arsenal Contemporary (New York), Esker Foundation (Calgary), Dunlop Art Gallery (Regina), Banff Centre (Banff), WWTWO (Montréal), VU (Québec) and Gallery 44 (Toronto). Her work was included in the Biennale de Montréal 2016 — Le Grand Balcon / The Grand Balcony, at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal.
She is one the five laureates of the Prix en art actuel MN- BAQ 2023, offered by the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec. She was longlis- ted for the Sobey Art Award in 2019, and is the recipient of the Prix Pierre-Ayot 2017, as well as the Barbara Spohr Memorial Award 2011. Her works are present in private and public collections, most notably at the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Musée d’art contempo- rain de Montréal, the Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal and the Walter Phillips Gallery.