Entries for October 2011

Born in Amqui, Quebec, Jean-Guillaume Bastien completed his studies in film production at Concordia University in Montreal. He made a few student short movies that were shown in many Quebec film festivals. Les Pissenlits (Dandelions) is his first professional project.   ±

Étienne de Massy graduated from Concordia University. He also studied at the Tisch School of the Arts in New York. Present in many festivals around the world, his work focuses on the construction of forms, patterns and volumes within time and space and explores the relationship between visual and abstract narrative. In 2009 he was awarded 1st prize at VAD (Digital Video Arts) in Spain for Somnia_3.   ±

Formerly from the National Film Board of Canada, Pierre Hébert is now an independent artist. From 1962 until now, he directed nearly thirty films amongs which Op Hop (1966), Souvenirs de Memories of War, Songs and Dances of the Inanimate World - the Subway (1984), La Lettre d'amour (1988), La Plante humaine (1996, SODEC-AQCC award), Between Science and Garbage (2003, CALQ award) and Herqueville (2007).   ±

Born in 1957, producer, executive director and writer Rodrigue Jean discovered cinema after earning a degree in biology, sociology and literature, but he began his career in dance as a professional choreographer in 1984. He was a founding member of the dance company, Les productions de l'os, in 1986 and studied theatre and directing at the Canada Council for the Arts in London in 1992.   ±