Director’s Reel from Kaveh Nabatian on Vimeo.

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.

Bell Orchestre – Upwards March from Kaveh Nabatian on Vimeo.

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.

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…

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.