DECEMBER 2020 - MARCH 2021 60TH EDITION COVERING AND DISTRIBUTED IN THE UK, IRELAND & NORDIC COUNTRIES culture Québec Dear partners and friends, Cultural Contacts A word from our new CONTENTS I hope that you are safe and well. As 2020 draws to a close, it is safe to MarieIngried Morin Boussaroque International say that this year has been exceedingly difficult in so many different ways. CulturalDirector forAttaché Culture Co-operation 4 However, it has also reaffirmed the importance and power of community, Cinema,ingried.boussaroque Digital Arts,@mri. Circus, Director for Culture solidarity and resilience. I remain confident that better days are ahead of us. Theatre,gouv.qc.ca Visual Arts Cinema and Television 7 [email protected] Despite the continued difficult circumstances, Québec artists will be active Marie Morin Dear Québec partners and friends, Music 12 AndrewCultural Attaché Bailey and present across the territory covered by the Québec Government Office in CulturalCinema, AttachéDigital Arts, Circus, As the new Director for Culture at the Québec Government Literature 14 London this coming cultural season. Many performances have been able to move online, again paying Dance,Theatre, Literature Visual Arts and Office in London, I am honoured to join a dedicated and dynamic cultural team. Driven by testament to the adaptability and determination of Québec artists and their partners. Publishing,marie.morin [email protected] Circus 16 its core mandate of market development and collaboration with local partners, the cultural [email protected] I am also delighted to mention a number of exciting developments. New rounds of collaboration funding Andrew Bailey team works to develop international co-operation, partnerships, exchange and residency Theatre 19 will shortly be announced, and we are welcoming a new member to the cultural team! Please continue GaiaCultural Martinelli-Bunzl Attaché programmes between Québec and the UK, Ireland and the Nordic Countries. I cannot wait Festivals 20 reading over the next few pages to find out more. ProjectDance, LiteratureManager and and to proactively respond to and develop the continuing demand for Québec’s unique and AssistantPublishing, to Musicthe Director innovative cultural creations and expertise. As we all continue to spend more time at home, I invite you to take a look at the impressive programme [email protected]@mri.gouv.qc.ca of Québec television available to watch on TV5Monde. The channel has recently launched a new app, Gaia Martinelli-Bunzl Originally from Québec, I have been living in Scotland for five years. I have over twenty years’ TV5MondePlus, making francophone content more accessible than ever before. I would personally like Project Manager and experience in the cultural sector and have worked across the industry as an artist and arts +44(0)20 7766 5930 to thank TV5Monde for being such a brilliant long-term partner of ours. Assistant to the Director administrator, extensively promoting artistic collaboration. Québec.ca/londres [email protected] The cultural team remain at your disposition to support you in your projects and goals of collaboration QuebecUK I look forward to working with you all. Do not hesitate to get in touch with me or my team to with Québec artists and organisations. Quebec_UK see how we might collaborate. QuebecUK Take care, +44(0)20 7766 5930 Québec.ca/londres Ingried Boussaroque QuebecUK Director for Culture Pierre Gabriel Côté Agent-General, Québec Government Office in London Cover: ChloëSingers: Lum Marjorie and Yannick Maltais Desranleau, and Jennifer partTaverner, of Ambiguous Production: Becoming: Domoney Artist’s Artists, MovingDirector: Image François from Racine, Canada, Barcarolle co-curated at bythe Cooper Beach Gallery(see p.12) DJCAD. © Elias Djemi-Mattassov 2 3 Québec-UK Connections Co-operation between Québec Québec-Wales and the Nordic countries co-operation 2021 Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, all The fourth edition of the joint call for proposals A new co-operation programme between beneficiaries of the 2019-2020 call for projects between the Nordic Council of Ministers (NCM) the Welsh Government and the Québec have been given a one-year extension to support and the Québec Government is open. Government was recently initiated and their completion. A next joint call for proposals In culture, artists, directors, authors and cultural a joint call for proposals will soon be between the British Council and the Québec institutions are invited to submit an application announced. The programme will support Government will be launched next year. Since to carry out a co-operation project involving collaborative cultural projects between its inception in 2002, the programme has very at least one Québec partner and two Nordic Québec and Wales. successfully encouraged new cultural exchanges partners from two different countries. and developed partnerships between Québec and UK organisations and artists. Watch this space! Deadline : 7 December Watch this space! International Co-operation Links to past calls Links to past calls UK: bit.ly/qcukconnections n Nordic Countries: bit.ly/coopqcnordic n Wales: bit.ly/qcwalescollab n Québec: bit.ly/qcukconnectionsfr Québec: bit.ly/qcnordiquecoopfr Québec: bit.ly/qcwalescollabfr © Elias Djemi-Mattassov © Elias Djemi-Mattassov 4 5 Sophie Deraspe, Annabelle Poisson, Patrick Lowe cinema and television Dark Soul Content London On Demand Until 4 December 2020 Online Québec talent will be represented at Content London On Demand. TV series Dark Soul, directed by Sophie Deraspe and created by Annabelle Poisson and Patrick Lowe, will be introduced by the creators as part of the Hot Properties strand. The fiction tries to understand the motives of Jeremy Tremblay, who walked into his high school with a semi-automatic rifle and shot multiple students before killing himself. Sophie Deraspe is an award-winning filmmaker and cinematographer. The Amina Profile (2015) was selected as a World Cinema documentary at Sundance and won the Special Jury Prize at Hot Docs. Annabelle Poisson has been writing screenplays since 2006 for teenagers and adults; Dark Soul is her first original work. Patrick Lowe has been writing for television since 2002 on successful shows such as Mémoires Vives. Additionally, sixteen Québec production companies will be taking part in Content London On Demand, thanks to the Société de développement des entreprises culturelles (SODEC). The Québec companies taking part are: Aetios Productions; Amalga; Avanti Group; ComediHa!; Duo Productions; Encore International; Babel Films; H Gagnon Distribution; Incendo; Just For Laughs Distribution; Keep It Simple; KOTV; Muse Distribution International; Pixcom; Productions Megafun; Sphère Média. Dark Soul © Lou Scamble www.contentlondon.net n www.sodec.gouv.qc.ca 6 7 SODEC_Lab @ CPH:DOX 2021 17-28 March 2021 Online event Since its creation, the SODEC has taken on a leadership role to help Québec’s cultural enterprises thrive in a changing technological environment, where organisations must adapt to evolving markets, both at home and abroad. In line with this mandate, the SODEC continues to support a strong documentary industry in Québec and has partnered with the Forum RIDM (Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal) to build a delegation of dynamic producers that will take part in this year’s SODEC_Lab @ CPH:DOX. CPH:DOX, the Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival, is one of the biggest documentary film festivals in the world. The Québec delegation of producers selected for the 2021 edition are: • Marie-Michèle Cyr, Parabola Films; • Line Sander Egede, TAK Films Inc.; • Andrée-Anne Frenette, Terre Innue; cinema and television • Simon Plouffe, Les Films de l’Autre; • Frederic Bohbot, Bunbury Films Inc. www.cphdox.dk n www.sodec.gouv.qc.ca n www.ridm.ca n www.parabolafilms.ca n www.facebook.com/takfilmsinc n www.terreinnue.com n www.simonplouffe.com n www.bunburyfilms.com Downtown screenings under the stars – Montréal, 2017 Roy © Sébastien 8 9 québec on tv5Monde TV5MondePlus is the new French-language video on-demand platform, available everywhere, anytime, for free! Enjoy a vast variety of films, series, documentaries, RESPOND. kids TV, magazines and more. Available on all your devices www.tv5mondeplus.com. REBOUND. CINEMA FACTUAL SERIES REINVENT. Helping clients during the phases of Sashinka Chacun son île (Seasons 1-2) Les pays d’en haut (Seasons 1-3) the pandemic crisis. 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