Woolf + Lapin Briefs for May 2011

Christian Lalumière’s Training Session has been selected for the upcoming Worldwide Short Film Festival in Toronto. Meanwhile, Christian is at work on this ad campaign .

Woolf + Lapin has just signed budding actors Colombine Trudel and Laurence Houde-Roy.

Gilles Brien and Ginette Boulanger sign on to do a family feature film for Christal Films. The film will be helmed by director Ghyslaine Côté.

Actor David Bushman is delighted to be cast in a workshop for a new musical at Lincoln Center Theater with the Tony Award winning team of director and choreographer, Susan Stroman, and renowned lyricist and composer, Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty.

Director Bachir Bensaddek’s Rap Arabe is a big winner at the Festival Vues d’Afrique, garnering the ACIC/ONF prize for best indie production and people’s choice award, Espace Monde MusicAfrica.

Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre’s animation film on Claude Jutra received funding from SODEC.

Jim Donovan wraps a Flashpoint episode for the new season . “I guess I’m excited to see what comes next- I’m curious about the world beyond these borders and how FP might open up those doors,” Jim says. “There are so many shows I am a fan of, maybe this experience is that gateway.”

Watch for an upcoming, exclusive W+L webtv interview with Jim talking about his experience on the show.

Entrevue avec Bachir Bensaddek : Rap Arabe

Voici une entrevue que Bachir a accordée à Woolf + Lapin avant la première montréalaise de son film Rap Arabe au Festival Vues d’Afrique hier.

Woolf + Lapin y était… Le film de Bachir suit, en autres, la rappeuse Libanaise Malika (what a flow!) et le Marocain Don Big.

C’est du bon.

MISE À JOUR DU 9 MAI : Rap Arabe a été récompensé par deux fois lors de la Remise des Prix qui clôturait le Festival Vues d’Afrique, dont le prix ACIC/ONF de la meilleure production indépendante et également le prix du public Espace Monde MusicAfrica.

Woolf + Lapin and Patrick Péris Join Forces

Woolf + Lapin is proud to welcome director Patrick Péris to our roster.

As a director he is well versed in stop-motion as well as traditional animation. He is also quite adept at live action.

He comes from the Kino school of thought. Direct, direct, direct. No small wonder that he has amassed quite a number of short films under his belt.

Some of which have been selected at festivals such as the Melbourne International Animation Festival and the Muestra de Cine de animacion/Civican.

Here is a recent Kino outing of his. An altogether different Patrick (Watson, no less) collaborates on the soundtrack. Patrick Watson’s vocals are quite haunting and strengthen the longing feel of the piece.

Le documentaire À St-Henri, le 26 août @ Hot Docs

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Le documentaire À St-Henri, le 26 août aura sa première mondiale au Festival de films documentaires Hot Docs dans la section Canadian Spectrum de son édition 2011 (28 avril – 8 mai).

Le documentaire a été réalisé par Shannon Walsh en tant que réalisatrice principale, en collaboration avec les réalisateurs d’unité Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette, Richard Brouillette, Tracey Deer, Claude Demers, Halima Elkhatabi, Sylvain L’Espérance, Caroline Martel, Amy Miller, Kaveh Nabatian, Karen Vanderborght, Fabien Côté, Yanie Dupont-Hébert, Julien Fontaine, Brett Story et Paul Kell.

Le film,  produit par Parabola Films et l’ONF, s’inspire de À Saint-Henri le cinq septembre de Hubert Aquin, oeuvre phare du Cinéma direct.

Le documentaire de 1962 porte sur une tournée de 24 heures qu’a fait Hubert Aquin et son équipe dans le quartier Saint-Henri de Montréal.

Aquin, lui, s’est inspiré du roman Bonheur d’occasion de Gabrielle Roy.

Kaveh Nabatian’s Taxi Libre

Kaveh’ short film was just posted on the NFB website.

“In this short fiction film, a Mexican university professor is stuck driving a taxi in Montreal. His tequila-swilling guardian angel doesn’t make life any easier.”

How come highly educated immigrants can’t get the jobs they’re especially trained for?