In the “pirate utopia” of Burning Man, a mutant bumblebee art car distributes honey in a post-apocalyptic desert landscape. Read More
Author Archives: giftgiver
Serge Nakachi Pelletier
After years of successfully matching imagery to his music for his group Pawa up First, Serge Nakauchi Pelletier is returning the favor and demonstrates today that he has also mastered the art of marrying his music to images. Read More
Sylvain Bellemare
Sylvain Bellemare was born on February 20, 1968 in Montreal. He began working in film in 1993 as assistant to the team's film Love and Human Remains ( Love and Human Remains ) by Denys Arcand. He won his first prize in 2011 Gemini Award for best sound on the movie La part de l’ombre. He has worked several times with French director Bertrand Bonello and Quebec directors André Turpin, Philippe Falardeau, Stéphane Lafleur and Denis Villeneuve. In 2016, he won an Academy Award for his sound work on Arrival. Read More
Nicolas Canniccioni
Nicolas Canniccioni is an award-winning cinematographer, based in Montreal, Quebec. His credits include The Demons, Gerontophilia, Come Worry with Us!, Those Who Make Revolution Halfway Only Dig Their Own Graves, and The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches - and others shown at Cannes, Berlinale and festivals worldwide. Read More
Mark O’Fearghail
Mark is best known for his work on Deepak Rauniyar’s Nepali co-production White Sun which took Best International Film at Venice, Silver Screen Award for Best Film at the Singapore Film Festival and the New Voices/New Visions award at Palm Springs in 2017. Read More
Mahi Rahgozar
Mahi Rahgozar has been editing films in all genres for the past 20 years. She has an impeccable sense of story and pace and a relentless eye for detail. Read More
Ina Fichman
Ina Fichman has been producing award-winning documentaries, fiction films, youth series for more than 25 years, and is one of Canada’s pioneers in cross-platform media projects. In collaboration with partners worldwide, Ina has co-produced films which have been premiered at international festivals, distributed in theatres in Canada and the United States, and broadcast on major networks including CBC/Radio-Canada, Arte, Canal Plus and PBS. Recent credits include The Wanted 18, Monsoon (TIFF People’s Choice Award 2014), Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt, and Game Fever. Most recently, The Oslo Diaries, in co-production with Medalia Films, Israel, had its world premiere at Sundance 2018, and Laila at the Bridge will premiere at the prestigious CPH-DOX. She co-produced GIFT and Gift-it-Forward with Robin McKenna and Gaudete Films. Read More
Robin McKenna
GIFT is Robin’s first feature documentary. Currently, she is directing a short film with the National Film Board for the Governor General’s Awards for the Performing Arts - and finishing Thanadoula, a short animated documentary fairytale about a girl’s search for her older sister and the “crow magic” connecting them. She is producer/co-director of Medicine, a feature documentary in post-production, about ayahuasca, medicine and healing. Read More
In Rome, Italy, an occupied factory becomes a home for migrants, protected by a “barricade of art”: a model of resistance, and an invaluable gift. Read More
On North America’s Pacific Northwest Coast, a young indigenous man undertakes the elaborate preparations for a potlatch – to make a name for himself by… Read More
