Woolf + Lapin Briefs
By stephan on May 18th, 2010 in News | No Comments »
Here’s what’s going on with us…
- Jérémie Saindon’s short L’Anniversaire (written with Stephan Dubreuil) is generating some serious buzz at Cannes… a really good launch for the festival circuit. Next up, Toronto’s CFC World Wide Short Film Festival in a couple of weeks.
- Woolf + Lapin signs Writer/Director Sébastien Girard. He’s just adapted Le Seigneur d’Anvers for TF1.
- Tean Schultz’s deal for his TV concept Divorcing Jesus is finalized with Carpe Diem Film and Television.
- Sinclair Dubreuil appears in Kaveh Nabatian’s latest short film Steam to be released soon.
- Christian Lalumière is slated to go into pre-production for his documentary on film, TV and stage legend, Denise Filiatrault.
- Olivier Roberge to direct a multi-media project for the Historical Society of la Haute-Saint-Charles.
- Director Jim Donovan wraps The Perfect Student (Producers: Pierre David & Tom Barry).
- Bachir Bensaddek to file his film project Montréal la blanche with Kinesis.
Kaveh Nabatian’s Sunday Afternoon
Sunday Afternoon (Kinesis) is a short by Kaveh Nabatian. As we said here on our last post, Kaveh’s work is rather influenced by music. He is after all quite a musician. His music with Bell Orchestre is cinematic. And his films are steeped in a very similar will to form: they are perfectly musical.
The opening sequence is right on. It establishes a sense of foreboding of what’s to come. It’s the apocalypse. It’s humans in the last desperate throes of passion. It’s about the not so remote salvation of music. With all of it going down in a Dépanneur!
Besides Kaveh’s assured direction, D’b Young is a sight to behold in this. She brings a lot of intensity and wayward sexiness to this little gem of a film.
Check it out!
Woolf + Lapin Welcomes Director Kaveh Nabatian
By stephan on April 23rd, 2010 in News | No Comments »
This is Upward March. It’s the experimental film that won at South by Southwest in 2008. It is by Kaveh Nabatian, director and musician. The soundtrack is signed Bell Orchestre, Kaveh’s band which incidentally won a Juno (best instrumental album of the year) just last week.
So yeah, he’s versatile and talented.
In this film, as in most of his work, Kaveh pushes artistic boundaries. His strong, well-composed visual esthetic is all his own. It’s, how shall we say, musical. We will post more stuff of his soon to illustrate this.
Among other things, he has directed a really cool music video for Torngat, a short apocalyptic film called Sunday Afternoon as well as other experimental films that you can see here on his profile.
We’re really excited to work with Kaveh. He has just returned from the Aeolian Islands, off the coast of Sicily, where he isolated himself to pen the script for his very first feature-length film called Ricochet, slated to go into production (Kinesis) in the next year.
3 Saisons Takes the Big Prize at Beverly Hills Film Festival
By stephan on April 20th, 2010 in News | No Comments »
Last night, at the 10th Annual International Beverly Hills Film Festival (BHFF) closing Gala Awards ceremony, “3 Saisons,” a feature-length drama from writer/director/producer Jim Donovan, received the Golden Palm Award and the Audience Award for Best Feature Film.
The award comes after a fruitful, year-long festival run. “It’s my first U.S. award and the jury was comprised of some very heavy hitters from Hollywood. It’s a nice way to finish,” Jim says.
Here’s the trailer…
Jérémie Saindon’s short at Cannes
By stephan on April 19th, 2010 in News | No Comments »
L’Anniversaire is part of the official selection of the 2010 Cannes Short Film Corner.
It has also made the official selection of the 2010 CFC Worldwide Short Film Festival.
Here are the other short films from Quebec at Short Film Corner:
JOUR SANS JOIE by Nicolas Roy, M’OUVRIR by Albéric Aurtenèche, OUT OF OUR MINDS by Melissa Auf Der Maur, RAYMOND MAY HAVE RABIES by Ramiro Bélanger, CHARGÉ by Samuel Matteau, LE TECHNICIEN by Simon-Olivier Fecteau, L’ANNIVERSAIRE by Jérémie Saindon, JONATHAN ET GABRIELLE by Louis-Philippe Eno, DOLORES by Guillaume Fortin, TUNGIJUQ by Paul Raphael and Felix Lajeunesse, LES POISSONS by Jean Malek and LE TIROIR ET LE CORBEAU by Frédérick Tremblay.
Woolf + Lapin News Briefs
By stephan on April 7th, 2010 in News | No Comments »
Here are a few things that have been going on with us:
- Award-winning actress Carinne Leduc (pic above) signs with Woolf + Lapin as writer.
- Writers Christopher Giardino and Robyn Burnett launch their new company website Autumn Storm Films.
- Woolf + Lapin pairs up with LA-based manager Samantha Slan from Slanted Wheel Management.
- Signing of writer/producer Jeremy Morris (we’ll run a special article) as well as Art Director Camille Parent.
- Shoot of Martin Girard’s feature film Angle Mort wraps in Cuba.
- Tean Schultz inks deal with Carpediem for the project Divorcing Jesus.
- Jérémie Saindon’s short l’Anniversaire is submitted to Cannes.
Sony Pics Turns to Mr Cartoon to Promote Films
By stephan on March 29th, 2010 in Things We Like... A Lot | No Comments »
Surfing the old Interweb we came across this gem on Mr Cartoon. He explains the process of turning an armored truck into street art to promote Sony Pictures’ Armored (Matt Dillon). Love the idea. It’d be interesting to know how successful the campaign was. The truck circulated the streets of LA, solely.
Mr Cartoon’s all street cred. He’s worked on other fine collaborations with both Nike and Vans, designed artwork for Cypress Hill and created backdrops for Grand Theft Auto.
Mr Cartoon earned his name through his drawing abilities and personality and is one of the world’s premiere tattoo artists. He uses a technique called fine line tattooing, which saw the light of day in US prisons where black ink was diluted to create shadows and depth (colored inks were just not available).
Collaborations such as these tend to be viewed as less and less “credible,” especially in the sneaker world. But it’s cool to see Sony suits turn to the street for inspiration.
Méduses from Numéro#
It’s the new Numéro# clip. Bonzai Studio did the VFX. They of course put a lot of stuff that wasn’t there in the first place. At any rate, the clip is cholk full of atmosphere as are Numéro#’s songs.
Bonzai’s new web site is in the works, but here’s a sneak peek.
Woolf + Lapin in Cali.
It’s always a good time to come to California. If you look hard enough you can feel the remnants of Bukowski, of Carver, of Dogtown, heck even Mr. Hubble if you go high enough into the hills.
LA is always special because it’s about the pinnacle of sacrifice and achievement. It’s about high how high you can go and stay there. Doing it your own way. Getting noticed. Breaking out.
It’s not such a stretch to say that’s why astronomers came here and perfected the art of star gazing. Because those who came here say California offers a unique view to the universe. Unlike any other, in fact.
Like Hubble and his study of the stars, we look to the movie-making machine that makes stars all the way down here. And at the end of the day when the sun goes down all over this city, there’s something unavoidably dreamy and magic about it.
But what if there’s another dream out there? Another kind of magic? A whole new universe to play with? That’s why Woolf + Lapin is in California.
Accompanied by Patrick Boivin, Woolf + Lapin went through the usual rounds of meetings with LA’s top producers. But also visited San Francisco to meet up with Google and Youtube. We can’t say what they’re brewing up, but it’s gonna blow the socks right off every one.
Here’s Monsieur Monsieur Boivin at Google posing with the emblems of the different development phases of the Nexus One phone.
For his part, Patrick has a few more things in the works. We can’t say what quite yet. But it’s that magic we’re talking about.
Yeah, it’s always a good time to come to Cali.
