Entries for July 2011

Since his graduation from l'INIS, Pascal Robitaille has worked parallelly as a filmmaker and a photographer. His film Dogme 41: Lonely Child, the first Canadian film to be certified by Dogme '95, screened at numerous international film festivals. His other films include The Taste of Nothingness (2007) and I Remember (2007). Weightlessness (2008) is his most recent film.

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A camera operator and director of photography, Jean-Pierre St-Louis is also one of the co-founders of Coop Vidéo in Montreal. He began his career with Robert Morin and Lorraine Dufour, and remains true to his first loves. Indeed, Morin gave St-Louis his first experience behind the camera as director of photography for the feature Tristesse modèle réduit (1987).   ±

Following his studies in cinema at the Université de Montréal, Stéphane Thibault directed two medium-length documentaries, Les loups (1995) and Ne parlez jamais avec l'inconnu (1996; award for Best Video Documentary at the Festival Internacional de Cinema de Figueira da Foz, Portugal). In 1998, he made Le beau Jacques (Grand Prix, international competition, Festival international du documentaire de Marseille). In 2002, he directed The Righteous (Claude Jutra Award) and in 2007 Junior, a feature documentary.

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A participant in the 1994-95 edition of Radio-Canada's Course destination monde, Ricardo Trogi placed third and took home prizes for three of his reports. Abandonning journalism in favour of fiction after the Course, he went on to direct five shorts in four years. Highly active, he collaborated on the writing and directing of a television series while also working on commercials and music videos. Some of his commercials have won awards. Originally from Quebec City, he lives and works in Montreal.   ±