| Workshop |
| How to finance your short film |
| CG environments: visual effects or real sets? |
| Distribute your short film |
| From short to long |
How to finance your short film
Do you need to find financing for your short film project? Are you familiar with the types of financing available for your film genre? From art films, fiction, documentaries, 2-minute films or 26-minute films, we’re here to answer questions and inform young artists, scriptwriters, and directors about financial assistance to help them with the creative process.
The panel will include Marie Potvin from SODEC (Programme Jeunes créateurs [young creators’ program]), Marie-France Therrien from the Canada Council for the Arts [Grants to Film and Video Artists]), Françoise Jean from the Conseil des arts et lettres du Québec (CALQ) [Media Arts Program in Research and Creation]. To complete the workshop, we have invited Pascale Faure, buyer for Canal Plus (France) and Jean Hamel from the Institut national de l’image et du son [national institute of image and sound].
FRIDAY, MARCH 14 AT 10:30 AM ›› Café Cambio
CG environments: visual effects or real sets?
Calling all curious film lovers and fans of special effects! This workshop will answer all of your burning questions about CG environments: is the “green screen” the future of visual effects? Is it true that everything is put together during editing? Has digital retouching become unavoidable?
Mathieu Dupuis, Inferno artist and compositing supervisor for Hybride, will be presenting the CG environment creation process to workshop attendees. Using 300 and Marie-Antoinette, both films that he worked on, he will explain the steps going from filming to the final version – all in relation to the digital process. Mathieu invites you to come discover these rarely-seen demonstrations, photos and excerpts.
Mathieu Dupuis, who has a diploma in television au programme ATM from Cégep de Jonquière, started his career in 1997 at Buzz, where he worked on several ads for companies such as Bell (Monsieur B), the Producteurs laitiers du Québec, Molson and Budweiser. Since starting at Hybride in 2001, Dupuis has worked on various American productions including Sin City, as well as Quebec projects such as Marie-Antoinette, Aurore, Nouvelle-France and French series Napoléon. In addition, he acted as compositing supervisor for super production 300 and on Hybride’s most recent project, Journey to the Center of the Earth, hitting screens in summer 2008.
This event is open to everyone who wants to learn more about what goes on behind the scenes as well as to all members of the film, publicity and television industries.
FRIDAY, MARCH 14 AT 3:30 PM ›› Café Cambio
Distribute your short film
“Distribute your short film” is an information workshop designed to help launch your short film career!
The short film is a nomadic art form that allows people to travel the world through television, festivals, DVDs, the Internet, and more thanks to the distributors, buyers and agencies who devote themselves to finding and promoting these films. It is because of them that short films are able to share their culture, history and characters with the rest of the world.
Special guests: Julia Lauzon, distributor for Locomotion Films (Quebec); Danny Lennon, programmer for Prends ça court!; Roberto Barrueco, programmer for the Mecal International Short Film Festival in Barcelona (Spain); Piero Clemente, programmer for the Siena International Short Film Festival (Italy); Patrice Carré, producer and buyer for Cinécourts de Ciné Cinéma (France); and Guillaume Gallop, DVD publisher for Chalet films (France).
SATURDAY, MARCH 15 AT 1:00 PM ›› Café Cambio
From short to long
At a certain point in their careers, many filmmakers will undertake their first feature film and the director/producer duo will be formed to bring the project to life. Directors, producers and students are invited to meet micro_scope’s Stéphane Lafleur (director) and Luc Dery, who worked together on the film Continental, un film sans fusil.
Stéphane Lafleur
Stéphane Lafleur has participated in the direction of over thirty independent short films in the last ten years and is one of the Kino movement’s founding members.Continental, un film sans fusil [Continental, a film without guns], his first feature film, was recently awarded the Citytv Award for Best Canadian First Feature Film at the Toronto International Film Festival and the Bayar d’Or for Best Film at the Festival International du Film Francophone de Namur.
Luc Dery
Luc Dery began his career in distribution and, after fifteen years experience in the film industry, founded micro_scope in 2002. . Between 2004 and 2007, Déry produced Familia (Louise Archambault), Congorama (Philippe Falardeau) and Continental, un film sans fusil (Stéphane Lafleur).
SUNDAY, MARCH 16 AT 10:30 AM ›› Café Cambio
