Documentary
Caiti Blues
(CO-EDITOR)
Director: Justine Harbonnier
84mins
Synopsis
Caiti Lord has a beautiful voice that she plans to use to do more than sell cherry cocktails. As madness surges in the United States, in a most disturbing absurd manner, Caiti is overtaken by a growing sense of suffocation. So Caiti sings. The blues.
Production
Cinquième Maison and Sister Productions - Nellie Carrier and Julie Paratian
Festival
ACID CANNES - 2023
HotDOCS - 2023
Special Juy Prize for Canadian Feature Documentary Film
Vision Du Réel - 2023
Cette Maison
(EDITOR)
Director: Miryam Charles
75mins
Synopsis
Bridgeport, January 17, 2008. A teenage girl is found hanged in her room. While everything points to suicide, the autopsy report reveals something else. Ten years later, the director and cousin of the teenager examine the past causes and future consequences of this unsolved crime. Like an imagined biography, the film will explore the relationship between the security of the living space and the violence that can jeopardize it.
Production
Félix Dufour-Laperrière (Embuscade Films)
Festival
Berlinale 72 - Forum - 2022
ART of the Reel - 2022
HotDocs - 2022
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Sing Me a Lullaby
(co-EDITOR)
Director: Tiffany Hsiung
29mins
Synopsis
In 1965, Tiffany’s mother was separated from her parents. She never saw them again. 40 years later, Tiffany flies to Taiwan to try & find her grandparents - with just two names scribbled on a napkin.
Production
Golden Nugget Productions and CBC Gem
Festival
TIFF 2020
Share Her Journey award
TIFF Top 10 Short Films 2020
NYC DOC 2020
Best Documentary Short Film
Canadian Screen Awards 2021
Best Short Documentary
THE NEW YORKER SHOWCASE
Clebs
Mutts
(EDITOR)
Director: Halima Ouardiri
18mins
Synopsis
The animals’ brown, beige, white and black coats blend into the ochre earth and sunbaked walls. After the calm of rest hour, a deafening cacophony breaks out at feeding time, as the dogs bark excitedly. In a stray-dog refuge in Agadir, Morocco, more than 750 animals find help and protection while awaiting adoption. Each day is the same as the last, the only excitement provided by mealtime. Empathetic and alert to subtleties of light and texture, Halima Ouardiri observes the rhythm of the animals’ lives, their suspended existence paralleling the far more tragic waiting endured by millions of human beings in search of a new home.
Production
Producer: Halima Ouardiri
Festival
Berlinale 70
Generation 14+ Crystal Bear
Special Prize of the Generation 14plus International Jury for the Best Short Film
RENDEZ-VOUS QUEBEC CINEMA 2020
Best Documentary Short Film
FICFA 2019
Prix La Vague for Best Short Film
RIDM 2019
Official Selection
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Les Aventuriers
Mavericks
(EDITOR)
Director: Michka SaÄL
82mins
Synopsis
A journey in and around Montreal that takes us from the detail of an icon painter to the massive feather dress of a Queen of the Night to the alleys at dawn in search of precious throwaways. Where we invent our lives...
Production
Written, directed and produced by Michka Saäl
Festival
Rendez-vous QuÉbec CinéMa 2020
Official Selection
RIDM Montreal International Documentary Film Festival
Official Selection
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In My Eyes
盲行者
(EDITOR)
Director: Yi Han
93mins
Synopsis
Only after the birth of his daughter, a blind man who lost his eyesight as an eight-year-old and was abused by his parents and relatives, finally begins to heal and rediscover what happiness fells like.
Production
Producers: Malcolm Clarke, Yi HAN
Artefact Entertainment
Festival
Shanghai International Film Festival - 2018
In competition for Golden Goblet Awards
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Stammering Ballad
黄河尕谣
(CO-EDITed)
Director: Nan ZHANG
111 mins, 2018
Synopsis
A young Chinese folk singer left his hometown to the big city, only to return to his musical traditions. On this journey, his humor, anger and powerful folk songs all comes from the rural life of past. That's the real taste of soil and dust.
Production
Producers: Ruby Chen, Sinae Ha, Yong Zhang
Boda Media Group / CNEX Foundation
Festival
International Film Festival Rotterdam -2018
Official selection
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Kobba
无法漂移的陆地
(final cut editor)
Director: Zhou Yan
73 min
Synopsis
Kobbar is a 73 min long creative documentary produced by Zhou Yan about the inmates in Kumla prison in Sweden. Kumla is known as the Underground Kingdom. Inside the largest Swedish A-rate prison, the corridors connecting every section are covered with artwork done by inmates with the support from established artists.
Production
Producer: Zhou yan, Zhang Yun
Mountain fire production(China) / Shanghai TXDH Films(China) / Palmroos Produktion (Sweden)
Festivals
stockholm international film festival - 2016
Official Selection
Beijing international Film Festival - 2017
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The African Who Wants to Fly
(Editor)
Director: Samantha Biffort
70 Mins
Synopsis
Today he is a star of dozens of kung fu films and working behind the camera with Jackie Chan’s crew. But how Luc Bendza, born in a small Gabonese town, became a kung fu master in an art that didn’t count any African before him?
This is the story of a kid who wanted to fly like Chinese fighters, so passionate he tackled his destiny and entered the legendary Shaolin Temple at the age of 15.
His saga begins when he’s 10 and starts shooting his own kung fu films with his friends in the streets of Koulamoutou...
Production
Producers: Aurélien Bodinaux, Oualid Baha, Pierre Ceccaldi
Neon Rouge Production(Belgium) / TACT Production(France) / Princesse M(Gabon)
Festivals
Festival International du Film Francophone de Namur (Belgium)
Official selection
Les Escales Documentaires de Libreville (Libreville - Gabon)
Special Jury Prize
Escales Documentaires de La Rochelle (La Rochelle - France)
Official selection
AFRICLAP (Toulouse - France)
Paul Soumanou Prize of Best Documentary Film
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A Great Day In Paris
(Editor)
DirectOR: Michka SAÄL
76 Mins
Synopsis
Within the jazz milieu of Paris, a story of music and friendship that revolves around questions of artistic exile, and begins and ends with a photograph.
Production
Producer: Michka Saäl
Produced with assistance from Embryo Productions (Quebec), French Cuisine (France), and 24 Images (France)
Festivals
2018
BronzeLens Film Festival, Atlanta, Georgia
MIMO 15, Amarante, Portugal
DOC-Cévennes, Lasalle, France
Lac in Blue Festival, Annecy, France
Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma, Montréal, Québec
Jazz Day, Fouras, France
2017
Cry from the Port, Marseille, France
Cinéma Saint André des Arts, Paris, France
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China Heavyweight
千锤百炼
(Co-edited with Hannele Halm)
Director: Yung Chang
87 mins
Synopsis
In central China, a Master coach recruits poor rural teenagers and turns them into Western-style boxing champions. The top students face dramatic choices as they graduate -- should they fight for the collective good or for themselves? A metaphor for the choices everyone in the New China faces now.
Production
Producers: Bob Moore, Peter Wintonick, Han Yi, Zhao Qi
Eyesteelfilm(Canada) / Yuangfang Media(China) / CNEX Foundation
Festivals
2012
Sundance Film Festival
Nominee Grand Jury PrizeWorld Cinema - Documentary
Golden Horse Film Festival
Winner Golden Horse AwardBest Documentary
Milan Film Festival 2012
Winner Best Feature Film - International Competition