Woolf+Lapin prides itself on its diversity. Canada, especially Montreal, is a stronghold for this very diversity.
That is why we couldn’t be happier for Valérie Plante who last Sunday became Montreal’s first female mayor.
#Womeninfilm
#Womeninpolitics
Voir la bande annonce de la nouvelle télé série réalisée par Jim Donovan et produite par Attractions Images.
“L’histoire se présente comme suit : la petite ville mono-industrielle de Cole Creek est en état de choc. L’usine de thermoformage ferme ses portes, entraînant la perte de 1000 emplois et la possible disparition de la ville. La Canadian Smiths-Thompson, qui possède l’usine, demande aux employés un mois de travail supplémentaire pour démonter et déménager l’équipement vers sa nouvelle usine de Saskatoon…
“Ce qui devait n’être qu’une manifestation sans histoire se transforme ainsi en une intense prise d’otages. Au lieu de laisser la police s’occuper de Godin, Mario décide de rester, lui aussi, à l’usine pour tenter de dénouer le siège. Dès lors, une lutte de pouvoir s’opère entre Godin et Mario. Cette confrontation fera éclater au grand jour la véritable nature des deux hommes… Pendant ce temps, au-delà des murs de l’usine, Chantal Trempe (Denise Bouchard), négociatrice en chef pour la police nationale, a la difficile mission d’obtenir un dénouement pacifique.
“LE SIÈGE est l’œuvre du jeune auteur Pierre Marc Drouin avec le concours de Renée Blanchar (Belle-Baie) et Johanne Larue comme conseillères à la scénarisation. Elle est réalisée par Jim Donovan (Le Clan) et produite par Cécile Chevrier, Joceline Genest et Antonello Cozzolino. Les productrices exécutives sont Marleen Beaulieu et Louise Lantagne.”
This is a particular unboxing from 2012.
Google, Patrick Boivin, and George St-Pierre’s teamed up for full-on awesomeness of ninjas, roundhouse kicks and striking techniques galore. Oh yes and a bygone tablet!
A bit of pre-fight trash talk between Bisping and GSP.
Excerpt from Movie Maker:
“Whenever the lights go down at Fantasia and the ‘meows’ begin, you know you’re in for something terrific,” says a panelist, stressing the Montreal-based genre circuit centerpiece’s infectious communal vibe. “Filmmakers will never feel more at home anywhere else,” adds a panelist, with another praising its “contagious energy.”
“A marathon of macabre moviemaking, Fantasia runs over three weeks, the longest of its kind in duration, and showcases at least 120 features and hundreds of shorts. South Korean gems like Train to Busan are a small taste of what attendees can expect from what one panelist proclaims to be “the absolute best in Asian discoveries.”
“Fantasia is also home of Frontières, an international co-production market and networking platform devoted to genre film financing and co-production between Europe and North America that has become an industry juggernaut.”
Woolf+Lapin is a proud partner of the festival.
Lewis from Unboxtherapy serves up another integration.
This time for Honey Chrome.
Save money when buying tech online (seriously).
Honey automatically applies the best coupon code at checkout.
As usual, Lewis gets close to a million hits in just a matter of hours…
This is Lewis Hilsenteger doing his unboxing magic.
Here he unboxes another set of products from the Dollar Shave Club, and possibly some butt wipes!
Excerpt from Filmmaker Magazine:
“Husband and wife filmmaking team Logan George and Celine Held have a bit of advice for those looking to interweave drama-free creative and personal partnerships. “We try to adopt a ‘no bullshit’ rule with each other,” says George. “It’s a phrase we say that enters us into a safe space,” continues Held, “and then we tell the other what’s bothering us. ‘No bullshit!’”
“It’s good to know that the couple have a mechanism to sort out creative disagreements because a visit to the website of ELO Films, the company they formed in 2015, reveals a dizzying array of work, from commercial spots to artistic passion projects. Both Held and George — who operate as their own two-person crew (George shoots and edits, Held does sound) — have degrees in drama from NYU and originally pitched themselves to international schools as film and drama teachers. A trip to Oman resulted in them making a promotional video for British School Muscat there. “We made it artsy and edgy and a cut above,” says George. The clip led to more videos for more schools, something that’s now a real business, with Held having reached out to more than 300 schools to pitch their services.
“With their filmmaking income, the two make shorts and are preparing for a feature shoot this fall. (“We don’t have anything better to spend our money on than narrative work,” says George.) Just in 2017, there have been three wildly different but equally strong films. The SXSW-premiering Mouse is a stomach-wrenching, Trainspotting-esque blast about a desperate, strung-out couple (George and Vanessa Wasche) who try to use a dead mouse to scam a cereal company. Based on a real incident from Held’s life, Valencia Road is a quiet meditation on a mysterious nonfriendship that occurs between two women, one of whom rescues the other from a car wreck. And Fever deftly crosscuts among four teenage stories taking place in Japan, the United States, Oman and Nepal, building to a wrenching succession of crisis moments. “Celine is the genesis of all our ideas,” says George. “She’s the one who does all our research and first drafts.” “And Logan is our editor,” continues Held. “For pretty much all of our work, he’ll come in and rework the ending.”
“Three more shorts in various stages of production are all leading up to the feature, Little, about a heroin-addicted mother and her daughter living in the tunnels beneath New York. The duo extensively researched the project, even creating an online doc series, 50 Moments, comprised of interviews with the homeless they spoke with. The film’s setting is Freedom Tunnel, on Manhattan’s West Side, a site Held and George found via their passion for urban exploration. Indeed, they write in an e-mail, wherever they travel, “we try to find an abandoned site to explore. Our favorite by far is the Sathorn Unique — a 49-story tower in Bangkok that was abandoned just after the frame was built. Other favorite sites include the Red Hook Grain Terminal, a stadium ruined by the earthquake in Kathmandu and an abandoned prison in Lille, France. Urban exploration has always been something that helps us see a city in a new way.”
Congratulations to our friends at Marshmallow Laser Feast and we wish them a colossal success with this new VR experience that launched the 30th of August.
“Virtual Reality is usually a solitary affair, but this time you are invited to collectively experience aural and visual immersion in a public space.
An actual ball dropped from a great height allows goggle wearers to witness an eruption of colorful drawings. Actions in the real and virtual realms merge, freeing the imagination and intriguing passersby. A Colossal Wave is also linked to Montreal’s Phi Centre, where participants are invited to explore a different perspective on the connected virtual world.
“A Colossal Wave is co-commissioned by the British Council, in partnership with the Quartier des spectacles and Hull Uk City of Culture 2017, and additional support from the Great Britain Campaign, Canadian high Commission in the United Kingdom.”
Attraction Images/Phare-Est Média/Julie D’Amours-Léger
Extrait d’un texte de Lisa Marie Noël:
“Le siège, quand la fermeture d’une usine finit en prise d’otages…
La petite ville mono-industrielle de Cole Creek est en état de choc. L’usine de thermoformage ferme ses portes, entraînant la perte de 1000 emplois et la possible disparition de la ville.
Alors que les ouvriers entreprennent une journée de protestation symbolique, une bande d’employés belliqueux profite de la manifestation pour pénétrer dans les bureaux des dirigeants avec un sac rempli d’armes. Ce qui ne devait être qu’une manifestation pacifique se transforme ainsi en une intense prise d’otages.
La série met en vedette Alexandre Goyette, Gilles Renaud et Denise Bouchard.
Le siège est écrit par Pierre Marc Drouin avec le concours de Renée Blanchar (Belle-Baie) et de Johanne Larue comme conseillère. Elle est réalisée par Jim Donovan (Le clan).”
Woolf+Lapin’s Dan Shea was story consultant on this Radcliff vehicle, whose subject matter is increasingly in the press, sadly.
But the recent spate of resignations from a variety of government consultants and officials is somewhat reassuring, especially this recent one from State Department scientist Daniel Kammen.
His letter goes so far as to contain an acrostic that spells out IMPEACH.
Silence is consent.
We must all speak up against intolerance!