Director Jérémie Saindon and Producer Valérie d’Auteuil hanging out at the Radio-Canada Toronto office waiting for an interview  to discuss L’Anniversaire in competition at the CFC Worldwide Short Film Festival.

The CFC Festival has a phenomenal selection of shorts featuring the very best from around the world. It’s really cool to be part of the 2010 selection. We’d like to thank Danny Lennon (Prends ça court and relentless promoter of Quebec Shorts) and of course Festival Director, Eileen Arandiga.

Hearty congratulations to Jean Malek who got the nod for best Canadian Short with his very poetic Les Poissons (Vanessa Pilon, Stéphanie Lapointe).

Julie Le Breton donning makeup to play a lonely single mother in Jérémie Saindon’s dramatic short L’Anniversaire (Birthday).

Le Breton and her two boys anxiously await the afternoon’s family birthday party. But a moment of passion for one ignites a moment of irrevocable change for the other.

After screening at Cannes’ Short Film Corner, it is playing at the CFC Worldwide Short Film Festival.

“A six day celebration of the latest and greatest in short film and video from around the world,” says this quote lifted from their website. It kicked off June 1st.

Stephan Dubreuil, Valérie d’Auteuil and Jérémie Saindon are off to Toronto to represent the film in competition.

As well as catching this year’s selection of the world’s best short movies and meet upcoming directors.

Jon Favreau himself twitted this… “You need to see this if you like Iron Man or babies.”

This is Patrick Boivin’s latest short. As you can see, he had fun with weapons this time around. Especially their going off in the midst of a lovers’ quarrel.

Also, we wanted to give you some of Boivin’s traffic numbers on his Youtube Channel :

Youtube Street Fighter, 7,298,301 views

Iron Man vs Bruce Lee, 5,880,880 views

Ninja’s Unboxing, 1,113,400 views

Happy Meal, 1,979,430 views

Transformers-Jazz with a General Problem, 2,411,137 views

Total Upload Views: 62,004,231

Patrick has something quite big in store. Sit tight ’cause it’s gonna be awesome!

Director’s Reel from Kaveh Nabatian on Vimeo.