Executive
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The 2010 – 2012 DOC-Québec Executive (in alphabetical order):
DANIEL CROSS
Daniel Cross is a multi-disciplined, award-winning documentary filmmaker who has made his mark with films concerning the issue of homelessness in Canada. His feature length projects THE STREET: a film with the homeless and S.P.I.T: SQUEEGEE PUNKS IN TRAFFIC received theatrical distribution and critical acclaim. He is currently in production on www.homelessnation.org, a multi-media documentary project. These projects are reflective of his artistic philosophy that film is a medium for affecting social and political change. Daniel had directed and produced the international co-production CHAIRMAN GEORGE (CTV, BBC, TV-2 Denmark), Inuuvunga: I am Inuk, I am alive and the Gemini-nominated Too Colourful for the League.
He was the Executive Producer of the internationally acclaimed Up the Yangtze, about a pleasure cruise through the devastation of the world’s largest hydro-electric dam. In addition to making films, Daniel is active in the film community, having won a TRAILBLAZER award at MIPDOC in France, MENTOR OF THE YEAR from the CFTPA and serving as board member of HOT DOCS and the Documentary Organization of Canada. He also teaches film production at Concordia University.
JONATHAN DURAND
Jonathan Durand is an editor and filmmaker based in Montreal. After a degree in Philosophy and Political Science from McGill University, he found his way into filmmaking while working with community groups in Canada and overseas. He lived in South Africa, where he worked with local communities to document the lives of people in townships outside of Johannesburg and Cape Town, and worked on several local documentaries. He also lived in Maputo, Mozambique, where he collaborated with the Association of Mozambican Filmmakers to set up video training programs for young filmmakers, and worked with the DOCKANEMA Documentary Film Festival. In 2008, Jonathan studied at l’INIS (l’Institut national de l’image et du son), and from 2008 to 2010, he was an editor and technical supervisor for the documentary series CONTACT, l’encyclopédie de la creation on Télé-Québec. He is currently working as an editor on numerous projects in Montréal, and researching a feature-length documentary called Memory Is Our Homeland.
ANDREA FEDER
Born in Caracas, Venezuela, Andrea Feder has lived in Canada since 1990. She volunteered for the Toronto International Film Festival while still in high school, and since apprenticed in film production companies in Toronto, Hollywood and even Panama City. After graduating from the Ryerson University Film Production program Andrea has been with Picture This Productions, where she coordinates, budgets and manages their various projects from inception to completion. Andrea also produced the short documentary BUND: Work and Revolution as well as the short fiction Plan Ahead.
CARMEN GARCIA
After having worked in the field of journalism and publishing, Carmen Garcia started work as a producer at Ciné-Contact. In 1988, along with associate German Gutierrez, they create “les productions du Système D” that will become “Argus Films Inc”.
Meanwhile, she still collaborates with other companies such as Pixcom and Gala Films as well as the National Film Board. Since 2003, after a two year contract as analyst at Téléfilm Canada, she gives new life to Argus Films where she now concentrates all her professional activities. Recent titles include: Who shot my brother? (scriptwriting and producing) – Prize of the Audience at the Festival du Nouveau Cinéma and nominated at the Jutra as best documentary ; Nadia’s Journey, (co-directing and producing) Caméra au point Prize at Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal ; L’École symphonique (directing and producing) and The Coca-Cola Case (in post-production), (scriptwriting, co-directing and producing).
KARINA GARCIA CASANOVA
Karina Garcia Casanova is a filmmaker based in Montreal. She has a graduate degree in Communications from Concordia and a B.A. in Philosophy from McGill. Her latest film Une bonne élève won the jury prize for best documentary in Radio Canada International’s Digital Diversity competition. Her short films have been shown in numerous films festivals and institutions (Edinburgh International Film Festival, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal World Film Festival, etc.) She has worked as a producer trainee at EyeSteelFilm and for the past 3 years has been producing and directing documentaries about the visuals arts for CBC Artspots and OBORO Gallery. She is currently in development on her debut feature length documentary titled Crossing Borders with the support of SODEC and Canada Council for the Arts.
PEPITA FERRARI
Pepita Ferrari’s career in the film industry spans twenty-five years. Following a ten year career in animation she has been a writer/director/producer of one-off documentaries for Films Piché Ferrari which she co-founded in 1989. Her films such as Joseph Giunta: A Silent Triumph and Karen Young’s Canticum Canticorum (film still at left) have received recognition both in Canada as well as abroad. She is presently in post-production on a feature documentary entitled Capturing Reality: the art of documentary she directed for the National Film Board of Canada. In addition to her role as vice-president of internal affairs at DOC-Québec, Pepita has devoted a lot of her time to working as a mentor, project analyst and jury member with various institutions and festivals in Québec.
Nicole Hubert is a socially committed producer who, through her work over the past 25 years, has enabled documentary filmmakers to put their ideas on screen. She began producing feminist documentaries with Montreal’s Groupe Intervention Vidéo (GIV) and, in 1990, joined Studio D, the women’s studio of the National Film Board of Canada’s English Program. Enthusiastically embracing the studio’s mandate to give women from different walks of life and all regions of Canada an opportunity to express themselves through film, she produced ten multiple-award-winning documentaries, among them After the Montreal Massacre (1990), Toward Intimacy (1992) and Long Time Comin’ (1993).
In 1998, Hubert joined Les Productions du Rapide-Blanc, where she has overseen development and production of documentaries by Sylvie Van Brabant, Eve Lamont, Claude-André Nadon and Michel Gauthier. Award-winning films such as Arjuna, Méchante Job, An Everest Within (Un Everest de l’intérieur), Rivières d’Argent, Sur les traces de Riel and Squat! have helped shape public awareness of crucial social issues. In 2001-02, Rivières d’Argent helped fuel public debate over the privatization of electric power production in Quebec. The documentary was widely seen and was useful to citizens’ groups opposed to such projects. Squat! (2002), an inside look at the first political squat in Quebec history, received the Best Direction Award—Feature as well as the Humanitarian Award at Toronto’s Hot Docs. Hubert currently has several documentaries in production or development, including two by Serge Giguère: Le mystère MacPherson and Driven by Dreams (À force de rêves). The latter is a feature-length look at the lives of elderly people who are passionate about their hobbies—an ode to growing old, shot in a matter-of-fact style that captures the richness of ordinary life. Eve Lamont’s last film, The Fight for True Farming (Pas de pays sans paysans) is in keeping with the vision espoused by Nicole Hubert and Les Productions du Rapide-Blanc: to create documentaries that stimulate thought and debate and offer a different take on.
YANICK LÉTOURNEAU
Yanick Létourneau, Producer and Filmmaker, Peripheria Productions Inc.
Yanick is a producer and filmmaker of independent films and documentaries. After directing and producing short dramas, hip hop music videos and short documentaries, Yanick wrote, produced and directed his first documentary feature, CHRONIQUE URBAINE (Urban Chronicle), in 2003. The film, made in the tradition of cinema verité, documented the story of under represented Hip Hop artists in Quebec, Canada. He has been since actively developing documentaries & drama projects about popular culture, urban music and social change. In 2005, he produced SOUVENIR KIDS, a documentary by Diego Briceño-Orduz that denounced the sexual exploitation of street kids by Americans and Canadians in Mexico. In 2007, he produced TERRITORIES by Mary Ellen Davis. The documentary about Magnum photographer Larry Towell explores, through his lense, the impact of war and borders on displaced communities. He produced the same year MIDNIGHT BALLADS, by Diego Briceño-Orduz, a documentary about Latino immigrants working on the night shift as janitors in Montreal. He is currently producing and co-directing with Natasha Ivisic I WEAR THE VEIL, an intimate documentary about Islamic women and their relationship to the Muslim scarf. He is currently producing his second feature, THE UNITED STATES OF AFRICA, which deals with the political and social impact of the Hip Hop generation in North America and Africa.
Caroline Martel is an independant documentary filmmaker whose work has been presented to critical acclaim throughout the world, including at the Toronto International Film Festival, Amsterdam’s IDFA, on SRC, NHK, and SVT, at the MoMA in New York, and the George Pompidou Centre in Paris. With a BA in Communications and an MA in Media Studies from Concordia University, she has been synthesising documentary theory and practice for more than a decade now. Her first feature documentary THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERATOR was screened in some 50 venues and seen as “… an enormously imaginative docu … an hour of nonstop visual and intellectual stimulation.” (Variety). Caroline founded productions artifact in Montreal in 1998. She was the main researcher/writer of the Cinémathèque québécoise’s virtual exhibit De Nanook à l’Oumigmag on the history of documentary in Canada (Boomerang Prize, 2001). In 2002, she directed the interactive workshop Documentary Visions about documentary movements at the National Film Board of Canada since 1939.
Bob Moore is a producer and the head of business and legal affairs at Montreal-based EyeSteelFilm. He joined the company in 2008 as a rights and legal consultant on the multi-platform Rip: A Remix Manifesto, and hasn’t looked back since. He now oversees films from development through delivery, specializing in financing, rights, distribution and co-production agreements. Recent completed projects include Taqwacore: The Birth of Punk Islam (VIFF 2009, SXSW 2010) and Last Train Home (Winner, RIDM 2009, Winner, IDFA 2009, Sundance 2010, Winner, Jutra 2010). He currently serves on the board of DOC Quebec.
Bob came to EyeSteelFilm specifically to work in social-interest documentary film production. Prior to his tenure at the company, he ran an international music marketing campaign, managed and consulted for a number of musicians and record labels, and founded a design collective. He holds degrees in civil and common law from McGill University, and a BA from Concordia University in Montreal.
KATARINA SOUKUP
Katarina Soukup is an independent producer with over ten years of experience working with award-winning, internationally acclaimed Inuit filmmakers Igloolik Isuma Productions, the creative team behind the Canadian cinema classic ATANARJUAT THE FAST RUNNER (2000), winner of the Camera d’or at Cannes 2001. Among her award-winning producing credits with Isuma is URBAN INUK (2005) directed by Nunavik writer Jobie Weetaluktuk. URBAN INU, winner of the GRAND PRIX – Rigoberta Menchu Community Award at the Land-in-sights First People’s Festival in Montreal in 2006. Soukup’s last film for Isuma as producer, KIVIAQ VERSUS CANADA (2006), was directed by Atanarjuat director Zacharias Kunuk and co-written by both Soukup and Kunuk. This documentary traces the extraordinary life story of Canada’s first Inuit lawyer and examines the reasons why he is suing the Canadian government for Inuit rights. The GLOBE AND MAIL described KIVIAQ as a “powerful documentary…. Beautifully made and angry, it is a startling and cogent story”.
Soukup founded Catbird Productions Inc in spring 2006 with a desire to produce exciting, socially relevant independent documentaries that push the boundaries of the genre. As a producer, she seeks out film projects that tell powerful human stories and reveal the extraordinary in the seemingly ordinary. She is particularly interested in films about music, art, culture, and human rights. To that end, she has just completed the short documentary UMIAQ SKIN BOAT by Urban Inuk director Jobie Weetaluktuk, and is developing several other projects with innovative directors. She holds an MA in Media Studies from Concordia University and resides in Montreal.