February 4, 2015 – Montreal, National Film Board of Canada
The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) will be at the 33rd Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois (RVCQ), taking place February 19 to 28, 2015, with 21 films an an interactive project—a diverse selection of strong auteur works. Topping the list are two world premieres: Claude Cloutier’s animated short Autos Portraits/Carface (NFB), which opens the festival; and Jean-Claude Labrecque’s documentary Sur les traces de Maria Chapdelaine/Remembering Maria Chapdelaine (NFB). Sophie Deraspe, whose fiction feature Les loups will also open the RVCQ, will present the Canadian premiere of her documentary Le profil Amina/The Amina Profile (esperamos/NFB). The NFB is also bringing an immersive interactive experience to the Rendez-vous Pro and will take part in two panels, in addition to awarding the the Best Fiction Short Film Award. All NFB films will screen in French.
Presented as the opening film and making its world premiere, Claude Cloutier’s animated short Carface is a riotous musical comedy starring a 1957 Chevy Bel Air that, to the strains of “Que Sera Sera,” joins a dizzying waltz of freewheeling vehicles bent on having a smashing time—literally. The ultimate spectacle for our oil-dependent civilization, Cloutier’s short is an uproarious, sumptuous festival of destruction that looks as if Busby Berkeley and Mel Brooks were asked to co-direct the apocalypse. Produced at the NFB by Julie Roy.
Also making its world premiere, the latest documentary by the great Jean-Claude Labrecque, Remembering Maria Chapdelaine, retraces the astounding cinematic undertaking of French director Julien Duvivier, who arrived in the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region of Quebec in 1934 to shoot a film adaptation of Louis Hémon’s famous novel. How did the shooting of Duvivier’s film impact the community? What memories remain? What town secrets lie hidden in those memories? Produced at the NFB by Colette Loumède.
After premiering at Sundance, Sophie Deraspe’s feature documentary The Amina Profile screens in Canada for the first time at the RVCQ. The film chronicles how a love story between two women turned into an international socio-political thriller, spotlighting media excesses and the thin line between truth and falsehood in the age of the Internet. Produced by Isabelle Couture (esperamos) and Nathalie Cloutier (NFB). The executive producers are Hugo Latulippe, Michel St-Cyr and Guy Villeneuve (esperamos) and Colette Loumède (NFB). The Amina Profile is distributed in Canada by Les Films du 3 mars.
The RVCQ also offers audiences a chance to watch—on the big screen and with many filmmakers in attendance—a rich selection of animations and documentaries produced or co-produced by the NFB. Award winners in large part, these films have screened at top national and international festivals over the past year. Also, a new NFB interactive experience, Jusqu’ici/Way to Go (France Télévisions/NFB) by Vincent Morisset, will be on the Rendez-vous Pro program.
Quick Facts
• Other films produced or co-produced by the NFB screening at the RVCQ
o Documentary features
Quebec premiere of Les héritiers du club/A Place That Matters (NFB) by Acadian filmmaker Renée Blanchar
Ruse ou traité?/Trick or Treaty? (NFB) by Alanis Obomsawin
D’où je viens/Where I’m From (NFB) by Claude Demers
La marche à suivre/Guidelines (NFB) by Jean-François Caissy
Le mystère Macpherson/Finding Macpherson (Les productions du Rapide-Blanc/NFB) by Serge Giguère
Autoportrait sans moi/Self(less) Portrait (NFB) by Danic Champoux
o Documentary shorts
Timuti (NFB) by Jobie Weetaluktuk
Norman McLaren : Musicien animé/Norman McLaren: Animated Musician (NFB) by Don McWilliams
o Animated shorts
Nul poisson où aller/No Fish Where To Go (NFB) by Nicola Lemay and Janice Nadeau
Monsieur Pug (NFB) by Janet Perlman
Histoires de bus/Bus Story (NFB) by tali
Soif (Unité centrale/NFB) by Michèle Cournoyer
Jutra (MJSTP Films/NFB) by Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre
Flocons (MJSTP Films) by Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre
Le dominion de Seth/Seth’s Dominion (NFB) by Luc Chamberland
3e page après le soleil/Third Page from the Sun (NFB) by Theodore Ushev
Minotaur (NFB) by Munro Ferguson
o Fiction short
Anatomie/Anatomy (Microclimat Films/NFB) by Patrick Bossé
o Interactive work
The Devil’s Toy Redux, a collective work produced at the NFB in collaboration with ARTE. Myriam Verreault, director of the Montreal film, will give a presentation on the project.
Rendez-vous Pro
o As part of the RVCQ, the Rendez-vous Pro fosters encounters between professionals from here and abroad. The event will be held in Montreal from February 25 to 27. Virtual reality presentations will be held on these dates at the Espace Rendez-vous.
o After making its world premiere at Sundance, Vincent Morisset’s immersive interactive experience Jusqu’ici/Way to Go (France Télévisions/NFB) will be presented in Montreal at a virtual reality event using the Oculus Rift VR headset. This virtual “walk in the woods,” an astonishing mixture of hand-made animation, 360-degree video capture, music, dreaming and code, was created by Vincent Morisset, Philippe Lambert, Édouard Lanctôt-Benoit and Caroline Robert of AATOAA.
o Hugues Sweeney, Executive Producer of French-language interactive productions at the NFB, will take part in the panel discussions Un an plus tard le manifeste and La conservation d’œuvres interactives.
Best Fiction Short Film Award
This year the NFB will give out the Best Fiction Short Film Award, which includes technical services valued at $5,000, as part of the NFB’s ACIC program (Aide au cinéma indépendant – Canada).
Associated Links
esperamos : http://esperamos.ca/
Les Films du 3 mars : http://www.f3m.ca/
France Télévisions : http://www.francetelevisions.fr/
Les productions du Rapide-Blanc : http://www.rapideblanc.ca/
MJSTP Films : http://www.mjstpfilms.com/francais/
Microclimat Films : http://microclimatfilms.tumblr.com/
AATOAA : http://www.aatoaa.com/
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Media Relations
Pat Dillon, NFB Publicist
Cell: 514-206-1750
E-mail: p.dillon@nfb.ca
For D’où je viens/Where I’m From
Marie-Claude Lamoureux, NFB Publicist
Tel.: 514-283-9607
Cell.: 514-297-7192
m.c.lamoureux@onf.ca
For Le profil Amina/The Amina Profile
Caroline Rompré for Les Films du 3 mars
514-778-9294
caroline@pixellex.ca
Lily Robert, Director, Corporate Communications and Corporate Affairs
Cell: 514-296-8261
E-mail: l.robert@nfb.ca
About the NFB
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