Tag: Jérémie Saindon

Jérémie Saindon to Direct Yelle’s Two New Videos in LA

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Jérémie Saindon is off to LA to direct two videos for French Pop singer Yelle’s upcoming album.

The videos in question are for the singles Safari Disco Club and Que veux-tu?

Right now, Yelle ranks no.5 in Hot Artists section and no. 3 in Hot Tracks section.

The shoot for the videos will take place in East LA and at Panavision Studios.

Jean-Paul Lespagnard and Brian Lichtenberg (Katy Perry, M.I.A., Lady Gaga, Kim Kardashian, Pussy Cat Dolls, Beyonce and Paris Hilton) will be styling the videos.

We’ll keep you posted when the videos are released. At any rate they will be posted here around the beginning of March as the album Safari Disco Club is scheduled to be released (Perez Hilton blogged this) in early March 2011.

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CFC Worldwide Short Film Festival Comes to a Close

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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).

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Jérémie Saindon’s short at Cannes

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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.

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Woolf + Lapin News Briefs

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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.

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Jérémie Saindon en entrevue : Web-Culture

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Le magazine français Web-Culture “se balade entre photographie et performance afin de percevoir les chemins de l’intime dans des expressions artistiques.”

Dernièrement, cette balade les a amenés de ce côté-ci de l’Atlantique pour parler avec le réalisateur Jérémie Saindon.  Une fois de plus, il est question de sa signature visuelle, mais aussi l’interaction humaine dans ses réalisations, qu’il fait à partir d’un idéale bien campé : brouiller la ligne entre l’hyper réalisme et l’onirisme.

Dans cette entrevue, il parle de ses influences : Michel Houellebecq, Alejandro Jodorowsky et  Michael Haneke. Et la place que prend l’Internet dans son travail, qui d’ailleurs lui permet un rayonnement international, notamment en France où des milliers, pour ne pas dire des millions, de gens ont vu son clip « Ensemble »de Cœur de Pirate.

Pour l’avenir ? Son long métrage sur les gangs de rue haïtiens ici à Montréal dont la trame tourne autour d’une famille de trois frères et d’une mère monoparentale qui survit grâce au proxénétisme de jeunes adolescentes. Aussi, des clips pour Yelle et Islands.

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Woolf + Lapin Predicts a Great 2010

Just now back from a skiing trip in the snowy Laurentians, Woolf + Lapin is happy to begin the decade with its list of ones to watch for 2010.

It’s going to be a big year for animation. Look for animation director Bernie Denk to have a breakout year. Also, Gerard Lewis, by far one of the best animation writers in the country, has just begun work with Studio Pascal Blais.

On the web side of things, Woolf + Lapin is happy to pair up with Prospek, an established Montreal Internet Business Strategist.  Their website really kicks, man.

Patrick Boivin will continue to bring his success from the past year into 2010 with a whole slew of projects including his continued collaboration with Circle of Confusion.

With two series in development with Vrak (Luc Déry) and Radio-Canada (Guillaume Vigneault),  Martine D’Anjou will continue to write top-notch TV series and may just become one of the best in the biz. She also has a feature-length project in the works. Other writers in for a great 2010 are writing team Christopher Giardino and Robyn Burnett whose script The Best Man was just picked up by executive producer Gerd Koechlin  (The Black Dahlia) for Berlin-based Phoenix Films.

Jérémie Saindon will direct his street gang feature in the Fall. Saindon is co-writing with me (Stephan Dubreuil) and the script is to be filed  for production at the end of the month. Caramel Films to produce.


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Coeur de Pirate Nominated

It’s the video clip for “Ensemble” directed by Jérémie Saindon. Coeur de Pirate is getting a lot of air play in France right now and so is the video. It’s based on the doppelganger principle. It’s nominated for best video clip of the year at L’ADISQ.

Also, Jérémie’s We Are Wolves clip “Coconut Night” is in competition at Namur. It’s probably Jérémie at his experimental best with some pyro work and wicked after effects! It’s also in an art show at 107 Shaw in Toronto where the gallery is presenting works from other filmmakers. “The point is to present music videos as an artistic product and a unique medium of filmmaking.”

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A Look at Jérémie Saindon’s Upcoming Film

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Director Jérémie Saindon is going into production at the end of this month on his very first short film. The film is called “L’anniversaire de mon frère” and was penned along with Stephan Dubreuil (also writer of this blog). The makeup is a strong visual attribute of the story because it unfolds during a child’s birthday. It is set in a high-class residential building involving a triad of neighbors all somehow caught in the throes of desire at a very inopportune time. Actors Julie LeBreton, Sébastien Huberdeau and Tim Rozon are all slated to star. The producer, Caramel Films, is also behind Jérémie’s first feature length on Haitian street gangs slated to go into production in the summer of 2010.

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Stop Sérophobie : Campagne coup de poing

Une fois de plus, Jérémie Saindon signe une réalisation qui fait jaser. Comme quoi la controverse peut alimenter un débat sur une tendance malheureusement trop répandue. Il s’agit d’une campagne contre la phobie du VIH pour le compte de COCQ-SIDA. La campagne vise à renverser l’exclusion tacite d’hommes séro+. La réalisation de Jérémie met de l’avant que la sérophobie, tout comme l’homophobie, est un acte de discrimination.

Le but de ses images choquantes est de bien faire valoir une chose : la sérophobie fait mal. Il faut donc apprendre “différentes façons de lutter contre elle et de devenir ainsi Poz Friendly.”

Ces images efficaces sont un rappel plutôt alarmant que la lutte contre les préjugés n’est jamais vraiment terminée.

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Jérémie Saindon Directs Omnikrom’s “Comme à la télévision”

It’s the new Omnikrom video from Jérémie Saindon. It’s a blockbuster movie mashup. It opens with a slow, deliberate zoom on a TV, much like the opening zoom in Coppola’s Godfather. Then begins the jam-packed cross cultural references and spoofs of the 80s and early 90s.

Technically it’s awesome. But it’s not just that. It showcases the importance of TV as the vector of bleary-eyed Friday night existence. For good or bad, TV was, for many of us, the cypher by which we all apprehended the world. Still is, in many respects. We went to bed pining for it and got up extra early to catch yet more hours of stories about manufactured heroism, that we all somehow emulated.

In a funny way, Omnikrom’s self-referencing themselves consuming pop culture is like watching them watching themselves. So turn it up. And turn on the cathode-ray tube so that it can transmit a pathogen of mind-blowing mass entertainment!

Oh yeah, see if you can catch the cool sneaks.

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