Cet événement a eu lieu le 26 octobre 2022.
Presented in French / Conférence en français
Rejoignez-nous le 26 octobre pour notre premier “Maîtres en série”, en personne, à Montréal. Venez entendre le monteur Louis-Martin Paradis discuter avec la réalisatrice Marie-Julie Dallaire de leur travail sur le film COMME UNE VAGUE. Il y aura un visionnement du film, suivi d’une séance de questions-réponses.

Louis-Martin Paradis a été assistant-monteur pendant une dizaine d’années sur de nombreux longs métrages de fiction avant de devenir monteur, surtout en cinéma documentaire. Depuis, il a monté les projets de Marie-Julie Dallaire dont : Comme une vague, gagnant de l’Iris du meilleur montage documentaire en 2022, L’impossible été de Jules et la série documentaire Un monde sans pitié. Il est également monteur sur les documentaires de Mathieu Roy notamment Surviving Progress, Les dépossédés et Les creuseurs ainsi que son film de fiction L’autre maison, en nomination pour le Jutra du meilleur montage. Lors du montage de Surviving Progress, il rencontre Harold Crooks, le co-réalisateur et monte ses films suivants : The Price We Pay et récemment The Melt Goes on Forever: The art and times of David Hammons. Dans la dernière année, il a monté le film de Phil Comeau, L’ordre secret

Marie-Julie Dallaire is a film and advertising director. Big Giant Wave, her latest film produced in collaboration with Crazyrose (Jean-Marc Vallée), won several awards including three Iris awards (best editing, best cinematography and best documentary) at the Gala Québec Cinéma 2022. In 2020, she directed Jules’ Impossible Summer with the NFB. In 2015 Denis Villeneuve entrusts her as second unit director for Arrival. In 2007, she won the Dworkin Foundation Award for Father which was also nominated at the Jutra Awards. In 1996, she co-directed Cosmos, which won the Prix des Cinémas d’art et d’essai at the Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes. She first made her name by participating in La Course Destination Monde. Marie-Julie is currently in development on her next film Cut Print Thank You Bye which will pay tribute to the late filmmaker Jean-Marc Vallée.

Cecilio Guillermo Escobar is a video artist, editor, and technician who works and lives in Toronto. He is an original member of the Toronto Queer Film Festival and works as their Technical Media Director. His recent work as Editor on Chase Joynt’s documentary FRAMING AGNES premiered at Sundance 2022. The film won the NEXT Innovator Award and the Audience Award: NEXT at the festival. His work focuses on QTBIPOC stories that push the boundaries of documentary.
Brooke Stern Sebold (they/she) is a nonbinary filmmaker whose work investigates gender and identity in both doc and narrative spaces. Brooke co-produced and edited the feature documentary FRAMING AGNES, which premiered at Sundance in 2022, winning both the NEXT Audience Award and Innovator Award. Brooke also cut and co-produced FRAMING AGNES the short, which premiered at Tribeca and won the Experimental Award at Outfest. In 2007, Brooke co-directed their first feature doc, RED WITHOUT BLUE, which won the Audience Award at Slamdance and the Jury Award at Frameline and screened at 150+ festivals worldwide. Brooke’s narrative shorts have won awards at Palm Springs ShortsFest and the Florida Film Festival, and Brooke was the recipient of the Cine Golden Eagle Award for Excellence in Directing. When Brooke isn’t writing and pitching shows, they’re editing the Emmy nominated series, BRIEF BUT SPECTACULAR, which airs weekly on PBS NewsHour. Brooke received their BA from Brown University and their MFA from Columbia University. Brooke grew up in the Sonoran desert and loves crystals, doggies, tiramisu and she or they pronouns.
Maureen Grant brings a background in visual art, film production, and an MA in Media Studies to her work as an editor for film and television. She is a five-time nominee of the Canadian Cinema Editors Awards, and is an alumnus of the Berlinale Talents 2019 and the 2013 Canadian Film Centre Editors Lab. She has worked with many notable directors on projects that have received international acclaim. PERCY was the top film in Canada on Apple TV iTunes. PYEWACKET premiered at TIFF 2017 and ranked amongst the year’s top horror films internationally. Recent work includes the Canadian Screen Award (CSA) nominated web series QUERENCIA, the CSA winning sketch comedy series TALLBOYZ, the Peacock / Family musical comedy series TAKE NOTE, and the Lifetime movie STOLEN BY THEIR FATHER. Forthcoming work includes Director V.T. Nayani’s feature film THIS PLACE, starring Kawennáhere Devery Jacobs and Priya Guns.