MASTER CLASS DESCRIPTIONS
Monday, June 11, 2001
9:00am - 10:30am
Directing / Anne Wheeler
The Big Dance
Anne Wheeler's introduction to her 'big dance' in which the director
is the choreographer. Her class will be an exploration of how she
moves the talent, the camera, the effects, the sound, the script
-- together -- to the same beat.
Anne Wheeler
With no film schools in her then hometown of Edmonton, Anne Wheeler
joined a collective of eccentric individuals committed to telling
stories about, and expressing the opinions of, western Canadians.
With that group she learned her craft and developed skills in shooting,
editing, writing, directing, and producing. Her films have earned
her six honourary doctorates and The Order of Canada. Ms. Wheeler's
filmography includes Bye Bye Blues, The Diviners, Marine Life, and
most recently Suddenly Naked.
11:00am - 12:30pm
New Media / Rob Love
Delivering REAL Interactive TV
What do consumers want from interactive TV? What are the needs of
broadcasters and producers in terms of content versus technology?
How can interactive TV pay for itself? Listen and learn as Rob Love
shares Victoria Real's experience of what works and what doesn't
across all genres, from sports to entertainment!
Rob Love
As Chief Executive and co-founder of Victoria Real, Rob Love's
company now represents prestigious clients developing interactive
applications across all digital media platforms and is recognized
as a leader in converging, broadband media. In 1999, Mr. Love was
awarded a Barclays Mercantile Award, for the top U.K. entrepreneurs
under the age of 30 and in 1998, he attended the '2020: The Future
of Television' conference hosted by Prince Charles.
11:00am - 12:30pm
Documentary / Mick Csáky
Grown Up Television for Grown Up People
Award winning independent Mick Csáky of production company
Antelope talks about his 30 years as a writer, director, producer
and executive producer of documentary programming for the international
television market in the areas of human interest, biography, history,
music and arts.
Mick Csáky
Throughout his career, Mick Csáky has produced and directed
more than 100 television programs and executive-produced an additional
600. His works as producer and director include the documentary
history series, Africa for Channel 4; The Midas Touch, a series
for BBC2; Plácido Domingo: A Musical Life, a biography for
ITV, 13/WNET and Europool; and the Nombre d'Or award-winning Mozart
in Turkey, a 90-minute opera film for BBC2. As an executive producer
his credits include The Cuban Missile Crisis for BBC, TV Ashai and
A&E; and The People's Planet, co-produced with NHK for CNN and
Télé Images.
2:00pm - 3:30pm
Writing / Chris Haddock
Creating Chaos
Creating a television series requires the unleashing and disciplining
of the imagination simultaneously. Writing, producing, directing
and running a television show requires leading hundreds of craftspeople
confidently into the unknown. Chris Haddock will share the complexities
of his experience of becoming writer, producer and director of "Da
Vinci’s Inquest."
Chris Haddock
A leading innovator in the film and television industry, Chris
Haddock is the creator, executive producer, writer, and director
of the award-winning hit CBC Television series, Da Vinci's Inquest.
Mr. Haddock has written for numerous television series including
MacGyver, Diamonds, Night Heat, and Mom P.I., which he also created.
In addition to this he has sold feature scripts and pilots to Fox
and ABC. His company Haddock Entertainment, is committed to producing
original television programs, features films, and "music with
an adult sensibility".
2:00pm - 3:30pm
Producing / Pierre Chevalier
Conquering the Gap between Film and TV Drama
Pierre Chevalier, Head of Drama at ARTE France, will tell how he
has worked to bridge the gap between film and TV drama. He enjoys
the challenge of working with the limitations of television and
finds his main constraint is financial, as he works with ten times
less money than his colleagues at other French networks. This forces
him to be creative and to work with a hands-on approach. Mr. Chevalier
supports ARTE's talent-driven editorial line that stresses the importance
of the filmmaker's vision, rather than the script. During the past
ten years he has backed over 305 titles (480 hours of programming)
made by 252 directors; 67 of which were foreign directors and 42
were first films. Pierre Chevalier has been instrumental in such
prestigious; and sometimes edgy projects such as "Underground"
by Kusturica, "Kingdom" by Lars vonTrier, "Marius
et Jeannette" by Robert Guediguian, "Beau Travail"
by Claire Denis and "Ressources Humaines" by Laurent Cantet.
Pierre Chevalier
Chef de cabinet du Président au Centre Georges Pompidou
au début des années 80, Pierre passe ensuite au Centre
National de la Cinématographie ou il dirige pendant sept
ans le service des aides sélectives. Depuis 1991, il dirige
l'Unité de Programmes Fictions d'Arte France qui a coproduit
quelque 300 titres avec 250 réalisateurs différents,
français et étrangers; quelque 180 téléfilms
unitaires, une vingtaine de séries et mini séries
et une dizaine de collections.
4:00pm - 5:30pm
Children's / Andrew Cochran
Theodore Tugboat - The Rights Stuff
A little more than a year ago, a 65 foot, 105 tonne, sea-ready tugboat
entered the Atlantic Ocean. Happens all the time? Not when it sports
a huge shiny red ballcap, five-foot smile, and eyes that move.
Andrew Cochran uses a case history approach to detail how strategic
rights management has enabled his long running preschool character
Theodore Tugboat to grow as a multi-platform property - from morning
TV to first children's character on the web to becoming an ocean-going
international icon for water safety - pulling a collection of branded
products in its wake.
Andrew Cochran
Andrew Cochran has more than 30 years experience in media and technology
and is currently the Chairman and CEO of Cochran Entertainment Incorporated.
Building on the success of several productions and a special interest
in children's programming, he created Theodore Tugboat in 1989 and
in 1993, founded Cochran Interactive, recognizing the potential
of the internet as an important emerging medium. In 1997 his groundbreaking
television series, Life on the Internet, co-produced with PBS, was
hailed by Silicon Valley's San Jose Mercury News as "hands
down the best example of cross-media integration we've seen".
Programs he created and produced are seen in more than 80 countries
and have received numerous awards.
Tuesday, June 12, 2001
9:00am - 10:30am
Documentary / Catherine Lamour
Producing and Broadcasting Documentary Films: The Strategy of
the #1 Pay TV System in Europe, Canal+
What kind of documentaries should a channel with 10 millions subscribers
choose to attract and keep its audience satisfied? How to find suitable
slots for documentaries when movies and sport are the core of the
schedule? How to promote the documentary specials to make them an
event?
Since it is pay TV, documentaries on Canal+ premium channel must
be exclusive, they must be different, they must be entertaining,
moving, storytelling. Videoclips will help us share Catherine Lamour’s
18 years enlightening experience as she takes us through the process
of developing Canal+’s Emmy Award winning Documentary Department
and through the challenge of maintaining the impact of quality and
creation in a fast growing channel, and on highly competitive environment.
La production et la diffusion de films documentaires: la stratégie
de Canal+ première chaîne A péage d’Europe Quels
genres de documentaires faut il choisir pour séduire les
dix millions d’abonnés d’une chaîne payante? Comment
les programmer quand les deux produits d’appel des chaînes
à péage sont les films de cinéma et le sport?
Comment mettre les documentaires en valeur pour en faire des événements
d’antenne? Dans le mesure où les abonnés paient pour
voir ces programmes, ils doivent être exclusifs, pour la France,
et différents de ce que proposent les chaînes en clair.
Extraits de films et anecdotes vécues vous permettront de
partager avec Catherine Lamour dix huit années d’innovation
et de création, récompensées par deux Emmy
Awards attribués à des documentaires français.
Et le défi qu’ a représenté pour le Département
des Documentaires de Canal+ le maintien d’une politique de qualité
et d’originalité dans un environnement de plus en plus concurrentiel.
Catherine Lamour
Catherine Lamour joined Canal + in 1983, one year before it went
on the air. She created and still heads the Documentaries Department
of Europe's first terrestrial premium pay-TV channel and since 1990
has directed DOCSTAR, Canal +'s investment subsidiary for international
documentary co-productions. Prior to joining Canal +, Ms. Lamour
spent ten years as an independent producer of documentaries and
worked for the production company Télé-Hachette. Her
credits include La nouvelle route de l'Opium and L'héroine
du triangle d'or for French Public Television; Les cavaliers du
mond for Télé-Hachette/TF1; and Comme tu veux, mon
chéri.
11:00am - 12:30pm
New Media / Will Wright
Games, Communities and Stories
Interactive design is perhaps the broadest media design field. When
your audience becomes an active participant in your work you must
start thinking in terms of "possibility space" rather
than linear experience. Wright will show how the design of these
expressive experiences can give rise to thriving online communities
and how these communities can be leveraged into other areas such
as storytelling, content building and public awareness.
Will Wright
Chief Designer and co-founder of Maxis with Jeff Braun in 1987,
Will Wright began working on what would become SimCity - The City
Simulator in 1985. It was released in 1989 and became an overnight
hit. The game has since won 24 domestic and international awards.
Taking computer entertainment to its most personal level yet, his
game, The Sims, put players in charge of the lives of a neighbourhood
of simulated people. That game inspired an expansion pack, Livin'
Large, which in turn spawned The Sims House Party. Mr. Wright was
on Entertainment Weekly's "It List" in 99 of "the
100 most creative people in the entertainment industry", as
well as Time Digital's, "Digital 50".
11:00am - 12:30pm
Directing / Norman Jewison
"A Soldier’s Story", "Agnes of God", "Fiddler
on the Roof" and "Jesus Christ Superstar" are just
a few of the films
made by Academy Award winning director Norman Jewison. Drawing on
a number of clips from these films,
Norman will discuss the unique challenges inherent in adapting work
from the stage to both the large and small
screen including his recently completed film, "Dinner With
Friends" for HBO.
Norman Jewison
As a filmmaker, Norman Jewison has directed a diverse and prolific
number of films, which have brought great critical acclaim. His
filmography includes In the Heat of the Night, winner of five Academy
Awards including Best Picture; A Soldier's Story, nominated for
three Academy Awards including Best Picture; Agnes of God, which
received three Academy Award nominations; Moonstruck, another multiple
Academy Award-winner; and most recently, The Hurricane, an Academy
Award nominee. Among his many accolades, Mr. Jewison has garnered
45 Academy Award nominations and 12 Academy Awards as well as three
nominations for the Best Director Award by the Directors Guild of
America. In 1988, he founded the Canadian Film Centre, which provides
advanced, hands-on training to young Canadian filmmakers and has
since become Canada's pre-eminent film training institute.
2:00pm - 3:30pm
Writing / Darren Star
Cutting Edge Comedy
Darren Star is the creator of the Emmy-nominated and Golden Globe
Award-winning HBO comedy series "Sex and the City" and
the popular FOX series "Melrose Place" and "Beverly
Hills 90210". Join Star as he examines the difference between
cable success stories and network success stories. Are the lines
between the two becoming blurred?
Darren Star
This Banff 2001 Master is the creator of the hit HBO comedy series,
Sex and the City, a Golden Globe Award winner and Emmy award nominee.
Darren Star also created the popular Fox series, Melrose Place and
Beverly Hills 90210. With multi-dimensional characters, interesting
settings, and layered plot lines they both broke new ground and
became significant elements of contemporary pop culture. He majored
in creative writing at the University of California in Los Angeles
and sold his first screenplay at 24. With Sex and the City Mr. Star
has realized his vision of giving audiences a show that both feels
true and makes people laugh, a show that connects with audiences.
2:00pm - 3:30pm
Producing / Andrea Andermann
Can You Survive a Live Film?
You thought you’d seen it all until you watched a worldwide broadcast
to 125 countries of an opera filmed on location over the course
of a weekend… LIVE! Now is your chance to learn how it all happened
and talk to the man with the persistence to overcome an abnormal
amount of obstacles and see it through to the climatic finale.
Andrea Andermann
Producer Andrea Andermann's most recent epic project is his "live
film" production of Verdi's La Traviata à Paris , shot
on location in four different venues, with the orchestra in still
another, fifth location. The complicated shooting schedule involved
30 cameras, miles of track and three steady-cams, and six months
of rehearsals before the film was transmitted live to 125 countries.
Mr. Andermann is also well known for his production of the three
time Emmy-award winning Tosca in the settings and at the times of
Tosca, a live film transmitted to 107 countries in five continents.
4:00pm - 5:30pm
Children's / Olivier Brémond
Television that Makes Learning Fun
TV is the best way to learn about the world, in particular for children,
as they don’t necessarily have access to diversity in either school
or traditional television. Olivier Brémond will focus on
how to finance, produce and market the type of programming that
brings the world to children, while entertaining their parents too.
Olivier Brémond
Since 1990 Olivier Brémond has been the CEO of Marathon
Productions and Marathon International. Prior to this he worked
at Gamma TV, first as a Sales Director, then Managing Director,
and finally as President. His production credits are extensive and
include Twelve films from Thalassa (FR3), The Valley of the Meerkats
(TF1), 60 news reports (A2, FR3, Canal +, La 5), Ben Hur of Madura
(Canal +) Sulfur Porters (National Geographic), Pillage (Channel
Four/PBS), Condors (Nova, Canal +) and Wild Dogs (Discovery Channel,
Canal +) among many others.
Wednesday, June 13, 2001
9:00am - 10:30am
Directing / Larry Weinstein
UnRavelling Music on TV
Larry Weinstein is one of the world's pre-eminent directors of film
and musical subjects and a partner in Rhombus Media. In this session
he will discuss the implications of being a part of this unusual
collective as well as expand upon the creative processes that go
into the realization of their television projects. He will also
share with the audience his experiences in the making of his latest
film, Ravel's Brain. Though not the costliest, the longest, nor
the most high-profile, he considers it his most ambitious from a
purely personal and creative point-of-view.
Larry Weinstein
Banff 2001 Master, Larry Weinstein, has become Canada's most pre-eminent
director of films on musical subjects. His feature films documenting
the lives of twentieth century composers have been screened at major
international film festivals and received top awards at many of
them. Mr. Weinstein's films have been awarded numerous Geminis and
in 1986 Making Overtures - the Story of a Community Orchestra was
nominated for an Academy Award, garnered two primetime Emmy nominations
and won three International Emmy's. Most recently he completed Ravel's
Brain, a musical/visual tone poem, both tragic and celebrative in
its mood.
11:00am - 12:30pm
New Media / Jonathan Drori
Sticky Moments: Building an Interactive Media Business that Works
How do you go from having a TV programme with an inoffensive little
website to operating a big integrated interactive business with
customers who keep coming back for more? How do you integrate the
disciplines of business and media strategy, technology and design
and information architecture?
At each link in the chain between Content, Community and Commerce
there are opportunities and pitfalls. This Master Class will help
you identify the criteria for making the best choices at each stage.
Using case studies such as BBC Online and Wellbeing (the Granada/Boots
multi-platform joint venture) and a variety of other examples from
the entertainment and media world, Jonathan Drori will give his
views on how to increase your chances of building a successful interactive
business. In a participative session, he will develop the top ten
criteria for creating interactive content as well as the five key
barriers to making integrated interactive projects really take off
for broadcasters, producers, and consumers.
Jonathan Drori
Jonathan Drori is Managing Director of the Media and Entertainment
division of Scient in London. Scient works with media companies
to create digital and interactive businesses and specializes in
large-scale integration of technology, business strategy, design,
and project management. Prior to this he worked for BBC Online as
Head of Commissioning (Editorial Director) where he established
it as Europe's most popular content website. He is noted for commissioning
the BBC's first web sites and founded the BBC's Education Digital
Media group responsible for acclaimed digital services such as GCSE
Bitesize and Teletubbies online.
11:00am - 12:30pm
Documentary / Colin Low
Big Screen - Small Screen
Colin Low will discuss the recent changes in perspective and technology
to sketch out a vision of the future. He'll draw on his experience
working and experimenting with cinema, television, Imax, high definition
and participatory imaging and then bring them all back to television.
He will invite questions and related experiences from participants
in the class.
Colin Low
The recipient of many awards over more than six decades of his
career, Colin Low was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada
in 1995. He has worked extensively with Imax giant-screen single-projector
systems, 70mm domed-screen OMNIMAX projection systems, and was co-director
of the world's first IMAX 3D film for the Vancouver World's Fair.
Mr. Low is currently working on two particular projects one of which
features the first graphic war reporter in the western world.
2:00pm - 3:30pm
Writing / Simon Nye
Simon Nye
Simon Nye began writing for television in 1990, adapting his first
novel Men Behaving Badly into a situation comedy. It won the British
Comedy Award for Best ITV Comedy and was nominated for an international
Emmy. In 1995, Mr. Nye won the Writer's Guild of Great Britain's
award for Best Situation Comedy and in 1996 was nominated for both
Men Behaving Badly and Is It Legal? He was also Executive Consultant
on the American version of Men Behaving Badly which was based on
the UK series. Other credits include the one-hour romantic comedy
film True Love, the BBC2 comedy-drama series How Do You Want Me?,
and the new family comedy The Savages currently being shown on BBC1.
2:00pm - 3:30pm
Children's / Christian Davin
Solving the Animation Production Puzzle in Europe
Christian Davin plans to drift along the main subject of being an
independent animation producer in Europe. He will discuss animation
production not only as a major piece of children and family programming;
but also as a vector for online content using recent Alphanim creations
as examples. He will also talk about the fact that only one country
in the world can afford to finance its programs entirely, and so
for every country except the USA, international coproduction is
the usual way to fund programs. This sharing process between international
partners can add value to intellectual property.
Christian Davin
Since the creation of his company Alphanim in 1997, Christian Davin,
Chairman and CEO, has produced over 100 hours of animation which
has been sold to broadcasters in more than 120 countries. While
keeping Alphanim one of the major independent companies in France,
he is partnering for production with the main players in the business.
Alphanim Digital, a fully owned subsidiary, has developed for the
web the first online community for young adults including an online
network with animated and live channels. Before Alphanim, Mr. Davin
worked as an international business lawyer for Cogema and then Framatome.
In 1980 he created a company in Canada to set up international co-productions
for TV and cinema and four years later, joined Jean Cazes who had
just created Initial group where he produced many animated series
as Chairman of France Animation.
4:00pm - 5:30pm
Producing / Beryl Vertue
So What Does a Producer Do Exactly?
Any Producer will tell you they are asked this question many times,
mostly on a film set when it looks as though they are doing nothing.
Beryl Vertue will talk about her varied career from pioneering the
format deal to the film "Tommy" and see if she can come
up with some answers.
Beryl Vertue
One of Britain's most respected producers, Beryl Vertue started
in the business as an agent. In the early 60's she formed Associated
London Films where she was an associate producer and later an executive
producer. In 1967 she joined Robert Stigwood where she became Deputy
Chairman pioneering the original concept of selling basic television
formats to Europe and America. Two became big hits in the USA -
All In The Family and Sanford and Son. In the 1980's Ms. Vertue
formed Hartswood Films where her credits include several specials
of the multi-award-winning Men Behaving Badly.
Thursday, June 14, 1002
9:00am - 10:30am
Directing / Michel Brault
Technique and Content
1960 and 2000, two important periods at both ends of my career in
films. Around 1960 began the search for an ideal camera that would
permit filmmakers around the world to capture life and its reality,
in French we used to call it "la caméra-stylo".
Forty years later at the eve of the new century, this dream camera
appears to be born in the form of a digital instrument. What has
happened between these two dates? What responsibility has been deposited
in filmmakers hands?
Michel Brault
As a cameraman, director of photography, director, and producer,
Michel Brault's name appears in the credits of more than two hundred
productions. Mr. Brault has contributed, either as a director or
director of photography, to four of the ten films judged the all-time
best produced in Canada. His credits include direction of the widely
acclaimed Les Ordres, which won two prizes at the 1975 Cannes Film
Festival and four Genie Awards; Les Noces de papier, a Banff Rockie-winner
in 1989; and the documentary series Le Son des Français d'Amerique.
Among his many cinematographic credits are Claude Jutra's Mon oncle
Antoine and Kamouraska.
11:00am - 12:30pm
New Media / Maurice Benayoun
Virtual Virtuality, for the Arts' Right of Reply
The new forms of creation are based on dynamic and reactive environments.
The virtual is not only digital and immaterial, it is also a new
kind of representation that takes the "visitor" into account
as the key for a scrambled message. Maurice Benayoun will talk about
how to consider the art of conceiving the rules of the virtual world
as the core part of interactive storytelling. He will also present
his fledgling concept of immersive television along with his first
work done with this "Parallel Architectures."
Maurice Benayoun
As Co-founder and the current Art Director of Z-A Production, Maurice
Benayoun is developing the artistic potential of virtual reality
and interactive projects. For the past 12 years he has explored
the potential of 3D computer graphics' animation and Virtual Reality
and since 1984 has been teaching Video Art and New Images at the
Université de Paris 1. His past projects include Tunnel under
the Atlantic, his first tele-interactivity project (1995) and currently
he is working with Jean Nouvel to design the first fully interactive
metro station in the Champs Elysées-Paris. This will combine
Virtual Reality, Intelligent Agents, interactive lighting and sound
in a living station breathing at the trains' rhythm.
11:00am - 12:30pm
Documentary / Alex Graham
Past Lives
Alex Graham of Wall to Wall Television presents a master class on
the making of a new genre of television – the “living history” programme.
Alex originated and executive produced "The 1900 House"
that aired on Channel 4 and on PBS last year to great acclaim and
huge ratings. More recently, Wall to Wall made "The 1940s House"
for Channel 4 which was an even bigger success than its predecessor.
Wall to Wall is currently in production on "The Frontier House"
for Channel 4 and PBS and "The Edwardian Country House"
for Channel 4.
What are the particular demands of this new kind of “reality” programming?
Can these programmes tell us anything about history or are they
just entertainment? And is there a future for this kind of format?
Alex will discuss these and many other issues in a master class
illustrated with research materials and clips from the programmes.
Alex Graham
Alex Graham is Chief Executive of Wall To Wall Television, a program
supplier for broadcasters in Europe and North America. As one of
the U.K.'s top ten independent production companies, Wall To Wall
is committed to producing innovative factual and drama programs.
Recent factual programs include The 1900 House and the 1940's House
for Channel 4; Body Story and Neanderthal, for Channel 4 and Discovery;
the Emmy Award-winning Baby It's You, for Channel 4 and The Learning
Channel; and the celebrated post-war social histories, Ready to
Wear, All Mod Cons, and Slice of Life for BBC2.
2:00pm - 3:30pm
Writing / Tito Topin
Who is Navarro?
Tito Topin will guide us through his process of developing a police
officer character within the framework of a non-traditional television
series. His environment, his family, his interpersonal relationships
and his co-workers. He will talk about the police station as the
forum where the dramas of modern society are played out and as the
cornerstone of the series. Also how the police officer perceives
his own actions which lead to his conclusions. What is the life
expectancy for a character like Navarro?
Construction d'un personnage de policier dans le cadre d'une série
à caractère non feuilletonesque. L'environnement qui
va être le sien, l'entourage familial, le relationnel. Ses
subordonnés. Socle de la série : le commissariat,
agora où viennent s'échouer les drames de la société
moderne. Son regard sur l'action qu'il mène. Ses conclusions.
Quelle est l'espérance de vie d'un personnage comme Navarro?
Tito Topin
Né à Casablanca et installé maintenant autour
de Vaison la Romaine, Tito est le président de Serial Producteurs,
ex-président de la Guilde des Scénaristes, a reçu
le Grand Prix du Ministère de la Culture pour l'Audiovisuel
en 1996 et est Chevalier des Arts et Lettres. L'œuvre de Tito regroupe
entre autres, 15 romans, plus de 80 épisodes radio de Poussière
d'Escales et Poussière d'Asphalte, un film, 10 téléfilms,
et plus de 80 émissions de Navarro.
2:00pm - 3:30pm
Children's / David Sproxton
Feats of Clay
Aardman started with two teenagers working in a garage and has developed
into a major animation studio producing feature films, television
series and internet characters. David Sproxton, co-founder and Managing
Director, illustrates the rocky road to success and explains the
methods of their madness.
David Sproxton
He made his first animated film with Peter Lord at school in 1970.
BBC showed an interest and took some short pieces from them for
Vision On. At university the duo continued to make short pieces
for the BBC and registered the name Aardman Animations following
receipt of their first BBC cheque. The Amazing Adventures of Morph
taught the pair about storytelling, comic timing and production.
Two five minute films for Colin Thomas at the BBC using the 'vox
pop' technique brought them to the attention of Jeremy Issacs who
commissioned more of their work using the same technique for the
opening of Channel 4 Television. Their film, Creature Comforts for
Channel 4 won David and Peter an Oscar.
4:00pm - 5:30pm
Producing / Roger Frappier
From the Idea to the Screen
Roger Frappier will explore the relationships the producer maintains
with the screenwriter, the director, the distributor and the international
distributor; and the absolute importance to work in continuity with
a filmmaker.
Roger Frappier
Roger Frappier began his career as an editor and director but is
known primarily as a producer. His name has been associated with
the major successful fiction films coming out of Quebec and he is
the only Canadian producer to win three Golden Reel Awards and three
Genie Awards for Best Canadian Film. Mr. Frappier's recent works
include Maelström by Denis Villeneuve. which won Best Canadian
Film at the Montreal Film Festival and was the Canadian selection
for the Academy Awards; La Vie après L'amour by Gabriel Pelletier,
which received five Jutra Award nominations, two Genie Award nominations
and was the best box office hit in Quebec; and Matroni et moi by
Jean-Philippe Duval, which received seven Jutra Award nominations.
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