Radio-Canada Promotes Documentaries from Home and Abroad with LES NUITS DU DOCUMENTAIRE
Total Page：16
File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb
Radio-Canada Promotes Documentaries from Home and Abroad with LES NUITS DU DOCUMENTAIRE Montreal, October 19, 2016 – Three nights, three opportunities to discover the world through the eyes of documentary filmmakers from here and elsewhere. From November 11 to 13, at 11:57 pm, Radio-Canada will be airing LES NUITS DU DOCUMENTAIRE in conjunction with the Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal (RIDM, Montreal’s International Documentary Film Festival). The general public will have a chance to appreciate the quality of documentary productions from Canada and abroad thanks to nighttime programming on ICI Radio-Canada Télé, ICI ARTV and ICI EXPLORA. Radio-Canada will also be heavily involved in the RIDM with a variety of events hosted by Patrick Masbourian. ICI EXPLORA will broadcast three feature-length documentaries from Friday night, November 11, to Saturday morning, November 12: Steve Jobs, l’homme derrière la machine [Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine] by Alex Gibney; Tout peut changer [This Changes Everything], Avi Lewis’s film inspired by the work of activist Naomi Klein that re-imagines how we can tackle the vast challenge of climate change; and Laurent Joffrion’s Un matin sur terre [Morning Glory], narrated by actor Laurent Lucas, that shows the equilibrium of nature, fauna and flora in dawn’s early light. Guylaine Tremblay and François Papineau will host the night from Saturday, November 12, to Sunday, November 13, on ICI Radio-Canada Télé. They will be screening five films: Hélène Choquette’s Chienne de vie, Danic Champoux’s Conte du Centre-Sud, Jon Kalina’s Aiguilleurs du ciel, les nouveaux défis du contrôle aérien, Paul Carvalho’s Autour de la montagne [Around the Mountain] and Raymonde Provencher’s Café désirs. Artists, their art and their sources of inspiration will be the focus of ICI ARTV’s program from Sunday night, November 13, to Monday morning, November 14: Un p’tit dernier pour la route by Mathieu Fontaine (about theatre actor Paul Buissonneau); Emily Carr, Souffle céleste [Winds of Heaven] by Michael Ostroff; Le vertige de l’étoile by Jean- Pierre Dussault and Éric Côté (about dancer Guillaume Côté); “Chaorismatique” David Altmejd, sculpteur by Rénald Bellemare; Mordecai Richler, le cosaque de la rue Saint- Urbain [Mordecai Richler: The Last of the Wild Jews] by Francine Pelletier; and La longueur de l’alphabet [The Length of the Alphabet] by Joe Balass (about writer Naïm Kattan). A Premiere, an Evening for the New Generation and a Salon A documentary filmmaker himself, as well as a contributor to a number of ICI Radio- Canada Première programs, Patrick Masbourian will host the screening of Francis Legault’s film Le goût d’un pays on Friday, November 18, at 5:30 pm at Cinéma du Parc. Premiering on Radio-Canada, the documentary takes an unconventional, positive look at the relationship that Quebecers have with the land, in particular through the testimonials of maple syrup producers and a moving discussion between artists Gilles Vigneault and Fred Pellerin. In addition, Radio-Canada will be featuring short docs by emerging filmmakers when it presents La soirée de la relève ICI RDI, hosted by Patrick Masbourian, on Sunday, November 13 at 7 pm at RIDM headquarters in the former École des Beaux-arts building at 3450 Saint-Urbain. Along with filmmakers and jury members, the general public will have an opportunity to discover the eight films in competition. The winning filmmaker will receive funding for the production of a documentary that may will be broadcast on Les grands reportages on ICI RDI. Last, and again at RIDM headquarters, we invite the public to visit the Salon ICI Radio- Canada Première at RIDM headquarters, which will be highlighting the platform’s rich audio documentary content. Festival-goers will be able to delve into Première PLUS – a different kind of radio that offers a wide range of documentary series, audio books, talks and playlists classified under various topics – to supplement their experience of Les nuits du documentaire. -30- Contact: Catherine Boivin Chef des partenariats Direction générale, Communications, Marketing et Marque 514 597-7417 .