“When I was a kid, there were two things I wanted badly and never got… A real dog and a Kenner AT-AT Walker.” (Patrick Boivin)
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CFC Worldwide Short Film Festival Comes to a Close
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).
Patrick Boivin Does it Again!
Jon Favreau himself twitted this… “You need to see this if you like Iron Man or babies.”
Patrick Boivin in Numbers
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!
Here’s Kaveh Nabatian’s Reel
Director’s Reel from Kaveh Nabatian on Vimeo.
Woolf + Lapin Welcomes Director Kaveh Nabatian
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.
3 Saisons Takes the Big Prize at Beverly Hills Film Festival
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
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
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.
– Tean Schultz inks deal with Carpediem for the project Divorcing Jesus.
– Jérémie Saindon’s short l’Anniversaire is submitted to Cannes.
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.