MHSoC :: NEWS
We are delighted to see so many of our current and graduate students’ work as well as our professors’ films at the Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois festival, February 17-27. Click here for further information.
Congratulations to our film production professor and MFA student Steven Woloshen on his Jutra nomination for his short film Playtime. This is his third nomination in the category of best animation for a Quebec Jutra award.
The Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema is pleased to present the Mary Ann Beckett-Baxter Memorial Lecture 2009-10
Acclaimed filmmaker Rodrigue Jean, in conversation with film scholar and critic André Habib
Date: Friday, March 5, 2010
Time: 7 p.m.
Place: EV Building, 1515 Ste. Catherine Street West, Room EV 1.615
Further Information
Free admission. Everyone welcome.
The event will be presented in both English and French.
Pre-lecture Screening with a special introduction by Rodrigue Jean and André Habib
Hommes à louer/Men for Rent (directed by Rodrigue Jean, 2009)
Presentation in French, with English sub-titles
Friday, March 5
2 to 5:30 p.m.
Concordia University
J.A. de Sève Cinema,
1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West, LB 125
Concordia University’s Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema invites applications for one limited-term appointment position in Film Production at the rank of Lecturer or Assistant Professor, effective August 15, 2010 to May 31, 2011.
Limited-term appointment positions are subject to budgetary approval and department or unit need. Individuals holding limited-term appointments may be reappointed, given continued funding and need, as well as satisfactory job performance. Together, initial appointments and subsequent reappointments may not exceed 36 months or a span of three consecutive years.
The Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema—Canada’s largest university-based centre for the study of film animation, film production and film studies—has a stellar reputation around the world. The School has the distinct advantage of being situated in Concordia’s vibrant Faculty of Fine Arts, where faculty and students enjoy numerous cross-disciplinary opportunities, state-of-the-art resources and facilities, and a rich artistic and cultural context for research and study. Currently, our faculty complement includes 22 full-time professors and about 40 part-time instructors, teaching more than 500 students. Our faculty and alumni have strong ties with the Quebec and Canadian film communities, and have been nominated for or won numerous international film awards.
During the initial appointment, the successful candidate will normally be expected to teach three undergraduate courses per semester (18 credits total), selected from core film production courses, and coordinate the technical path of first-year filmmaking classes.
Applicants should have an MFA or equivalent; an active research/creation practice; proficiency in 16mm film production; competency in both analog and digital film editing, and expertise with Avid editing software; significant experience in digital high definition production and post-production practices; teaching experience at a university or professional level; ability to teach a range of genres; and demonstrated ability to work well within a team. Although classes are taught in English, bilingualism (English and French) is a definite asset.
Submissions should consist of a letter of application; an up-to-date curriculum vitae; a statement of teaching philosophy and interests; evidence of teaching effectiveness (including course syllabi and evaluations); a sample DVD (NTSC) of recent research/creation-related film or video; and the names and contact information of three referees.
Applications should be submitted by March 1, 2010 directly to:
Professor Marielle Nitoslawska, Chair, Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema
Concordia University
1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West, FB 319, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3G 1M8
Fax: (514) 848-4255
Civic address:
Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema
Sir George Williams Campus
1250 Guy Street, FB 319, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H3H 2T4
For further information, applicants are encouraged to consult:
Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema’s website: http://cinema.concordia.ca
Faculty of Fine Arts website: http://finearts.concordia.ca
Academic Services for Fine Arts Faculty:
http://finearts.concordia.ca/officeofthedean/servicesandresourcesforfaculty/
Subject to budgetary approval, we anticipate filling this position for August 15, 2010. Review of applications will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled.
All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadian citizens and permanent residents of Canada will be given priority. Concordia University is committed to employment equity.
The Office of the Vice President of Research and Graduate Studies
The Advanced Research Team on History and Epistemology of Moving Image Studies and
Le département de communication de l’Université de Montréal
are pleased to present a public lecture with
Geneviève Sellier
Université de Caen
Modernity and archaïsm in the New Wave
Friday, February 12, 2010
at 16h30
MB-3,210
(The new John Molson School of Business building, 1450 Guy)
Concordia University
For more information please contact
Or see our website
ARTHEMIS
is pleased to present a public lecture with
Christian Keathley
Middlebury College
Cinephilia’s Missing Term :
Découpage
Friday, February 5th, 2010
Concordia University
EV-5,615
At 16h30
For more information please contact
Or see our Website
The annual “Noisemakers” issue of The Mirror profiles up and coming artists in Montreal. The 2010 edition paid tribute to several Mel Hoppenheim students and grads including alumna Jacquelyn Mills in an article entitled “Film School Standout”. Her 2008 film, For Wendy, picked up the prestigious Technicolor Award as well as top honours at the En Route Festival. She will begin shooting her next film, The Old Woman and the Wave, in Fall 2010.
Also profiled were Film Production grads Andrew Lima and Nikola Markovic, two members of Phase Four Productions. Together with Chris Zanti, they produced a web series called Jordan and the Bear. They hope to further develop the series into a feature film.
Past student Daniel Roby won a Jutra award in 2004 for his first feature, La Peau Blanche. His latest film, a collaboration with playwright Steve Gallucio, is called Funkytown – a glimpse into the golden years of disco in Montreal.
Monday, January 11 - NFB 1564 St. Denis at 7:30 pm
Mel Hoppenheim Technicolor Award Winners:
Sybille, Léa Jeanmougin, 2009
For Wendy, Jacqueline Mills, 2009
Les Acteurs Amoureux, Jean-Guillaume Bastien, 2007
Curlew Sandpiper, Adam Beck, 2006
Also Featuring 35mm Prints from:
Singularity, Nguyen-Anh Nguyen, Kodak Filmschool Award, 2008
The Birth of Smoked Meat, Jeannette Pope & Zoe Mapp, Susan Schouten Award, 2008
Fear of Snakes, Andreas Mendritzki, Poetry Foundation Award, 2009
Admission is free
The Cinema office hours are 9 am to 5 pm from Monday, December 14th until Wednesday, December 23rd. We are closed as of 5 pm on December 23rd and will reopen at 8 am on Monday, January 4, 2010. Happy holidays to all!
Congratulations to 3rd year Film Production student, Pascale Bilodeau. Her documentary Corps Chimiques took the prize for best documentary in the Student Competition at the 2009 Montreal World Film Festival. The film, which Bilodeau wrote, directed and edited, is a portrait of artist Maude Pilon.
CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FILM STUDIES / REVUE CANADIENNE D’ÉTUDES CINÉMATOGRAPHIQUES is proud to announce the release of Issue 18.2.
What: CJFS/RCEC Issue 18.2 Launch Party + Sneak Peek at our new website
When: 5pm to 7pm; Friday, December 11th, 2009
Where: Bar Blizzarts, 3956A boulevard Saint-Laurent, Montreal
Click here for more information and a map:
http://www.filmstudies.ca/journal/invite/
In issue 18.2 (on sale at the launch):
Charles Tepperman on Early Cinema in Ottawa
Tamara Shepherd on Rotten Tomatoes
Dominique Russell on Buñuel’s Gags
Thomas Odde on Tarkovsky’s The Sacrifice
Peter Robert Brown on Hard Core Logo
And for the first time in English:
André Bazin, “Fifteen Years of French Cinema”
Book Reviews by:
Alana Thain, Liz Czach, Andrew Covert and Julien Lapointe
After taking top prize for Best Feature-Length Documentary at the International Documentary Film Festival in Amsterdam last month, Last Train Home (producer Daniel Cross, director Lixin Fan) will screen at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2010
At the 2009 edition of the Montreal World Film Festival in September, Film Production student Claudia Hébert, took the Kodak Imaging Award for her film, La Règle du Futur Composé
Daniel Cross’ production company, EyeSteelFilm, releases its most recent film, Last Train Home, at the AMC Forum on November 20th. Director Lixin Fan follows the Zhangs, a couple torn between factory work in Guangzhou and a daughter they see once a year, at Chinese New Year, after an arduous two-day train journey. Fan was an associate producer on EyeSteelFilm’s 2007 release, Up the Yangtze, which won a Genie Award for best documentary.
We are pleased to announce the appointments of Luca Caminati and Maria “Masha” Salazkina, who will start teaching in our Film Studies program in September 2010. Dr. Caminati is the author of, Orientalismo Eretico, Pier Paolo Pasolini e il cinema del Terzo Mondo. Dr. Salazkina’s latest publication is, In Excess: Sergei Eisenstein’s Mexico. They join us from Colgate University in Hamilton, New York.
Film Production graduate Andreas Mendritzki (BFA 08) has won the Poetry Foundation Prize for his film, Fear of Snakes, at the Chicago International Children’s Film Festival (CICFF). The film was made with the assistance of fellow graduates Anh Nguyen Anh and Aonan Yang and in collaboration with poet Lorna Crozier. The CICFF is North America’s largest and most celebrated film festival devoted to films for children - and the only Oscar-qualifying children’s film festival in the world.
Congratulations to animation professor Shira Avni. Her film Tying Your Own Shoes was awarded the grand prize for best documentary short at the 52nd International Leipzig Festival.
ARTHEMIS
is pleased to present a public lecture with
Paula Amad
University of Iowa
“The Archive in the Age of Cinema: A Counter-Archival Theory of Cinematic Memory From Henri Bergson to André Bazin”
Friday, October 30th, 13h15
EV 5-615
Concordia University READ MORE
ARTHEMIS
is pleased to present a public lecture with
Dudley Andrew
Yale University
“The Exemplary in Film Sudies”
Friday November 6th, 16H00
MB- 2,210
(The new John Molson Building, 1450 Guy)
Concordia University READ MORE
ARTHEMIS is pleased to present a lecture with
André Habib
Université de Montréal
The Archive as Ruin, the Ruin as Archive
Thursday October 15 th, 13h15
EV 5-615
Concordia University
READ MORE
The Advanced Research Team on History and Epistemology of Moving Image Studies
is pleased to present a lecture with
François Albera
Professeur d’études cinématographiques, Université de Lausanne
“Les formalistes russes vont au cinéma: Boris Eikhenbaum, le discours intérieur du spectateur et l’instance du verbal dans le discours visuel du film”
Friday october 2, 10h00
EV 5-615
Concordia University
READ MORE
The Advanced Research Team on History and Epistemology of Moving Image Studies
is pleased to present a lecture with
Alison Griffiths
City University of New York (CUNY)
“New Perspectives on the Museum Expedition
Film: The Woodcraft League, Peter Pan, and
Reclaiming Native Agency.”
Thursday October 1st, 13h15
EV 5-615
Concordia University
READ MORE
Click here for Part-Time Teaching Posting.
Please click here to download the schedule for Studen Film Screening.
Ce qu’il faut pour vivre, by Benoît Pilon (BFA Film Production 1987) was selected as one of Canada’s Top Ten Feature Films of 2008 by the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF).
Rodrigue Jean, the director of Lost Song, also selected among the Top Ten Features, has taught in the Film Production program.
The following short films by our graduates were selected among Canada’s Top Ten Shorts, an annual event established by the Toronto International Film with the objective of promoting Canadian cinema.
- Ghosts and Gravel Roads - Mike Rollo (MFA Film Production 2004)
- Passages - Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre (BFA Film Production 2002)
- Mon nom est Victor Gazon - Patrick Gazé (BFA Film Production1998)
Assistant Professor Dan Cross was selected as a panelist for the 2009 Canada’s Top Ten Shorts, and teacher Matthew Hays, as a panelist for the 2009 Canada’s Top Ten Features.
The following films by our graduates and former students were nominated for the 29th Genie awards.
- THE NECESSITIES OF LIFE by Benoit Pilon (BFA Film Production 1987)
- UP THE YANGTZE by Young Chang (BFA Film Production 1999)
- MON NOM EST VICTOR GAZON by Patrick Gazé (BFA Film Production1998)
- LE BANQUET by Nicholas Bolduc (attended Film Production in 1993)
- LA PIEGE AMERICAIN by Pierre Gill (attended Film Production in 1984)
- TOUT EST PARFAIT by Sara Mishara (BFA Film Production 1999)
Aonan Yang (BFA Film Production 2008) wins the 2008 Eastman Kodak Film School competition Cinematography Award for his work on Nguyen Anh Nguyen’s film, Singularity. Yang and Nguyen presented the film at the Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival (France) in January 2009.
Two former Film Production students were recognized at the 27th edition of Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois:
Benjamin Gueguen(BFA FMPR attended in 2006)’s Babylone won the Prix Vox – Première for the best student production.
Korbett Matthews (MFA FMPR 2008)’s documentary on a Canadian filmmaker Frank Cole, The Man Who Crossed The Sahara (2007) was given the Special Jury Award by the Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma (AQCC).
Issue 13 of Synoptique: The Journal of Film and Film Studies, published by MHSoC graduate students, is online. This is a special issue on Quebec Cinema, and features two articles on Jean-Claude Lauzon’s Léolo, a look at Claude Jutra’s Dreamspeaker, an essay on Robert Lepage’s Le Confessionnal, and an intriguing study on the depiction of immigrants in Quebec cinema.
In addition, Synoptique kicks off its first “Spotlight on Concordia Film Production” with an interview with cinema school instructor and filmmaker Mike Rollo.
The innovative design is by MHSoC production student Olivier Creurer.
Check it out:
Synoptique: The Journal of Film and Film Studies
Please note that applicants applying for Film Studies for Fall 2009 admission, are no longer required to submit portfolios.
You are only required to submit online application via online.
Applicants may submit their dossier in one of the following three ways: in person, by courier or by mail.
For detailed information, please consult our admissions page.
By Courier or in Person:
Concordia University
Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema
Room FB 319
1250 rue Guy
Montréal, Québec, H3H 2T4
You can drop off your dossier at our main office.
From Monday, February 23th to Thursday, February 26th, 2009, between the hours of 08H30-12H00,
and between 13H30-17H30,
We are closed on Friday, February 27th. 2009, in respect of the President Holiday .
By Mail:
Concordia University
Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema
Room FB 319
1455 boul de Maisonneuve Ouest
Montréal, Québec, H3G 1M8
Applicants must ensure that dossiers submitted by mail are sent in sufficient time to be received in the School by MARCH 6th, 2009 at the latest.
Dossiers received by mail with a postmark dated later than FEBRUARY 27th, 2009 will NOT be considered.
Issue 12 of Synoptique: The Journal of Film and Film Studies, published by MHSoC graduate students, is online. This is a special issue on melodrama, and features articles on network narratives and contemporary melodrama, the classic melodrama Stella Dallas and its 1990 remake, and an essay on melodramatic gender stereotypes in American films like Flight Plan and The Forgotten.
Check it out:
Synoptique: The Journal of Film and Film Studies
In celebration of the arrival of the CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FILM STUDIES / REVUE CANADIENNE D’ÉTUDES CINÉMATOGRAPHIQUES to Concordia University (after a long and auspicious history at McGill University under the stewardship of the legendary Bill Wees), new editors Charles Acland and Catherine Russell are pleased to invite you and a companion to an evening of wine, cheese, and good cheer.
In addition to the launch of Issue 17.2, the evening will also see the unveiling of two new breakthrough film studies publications.
What: CJFS/RCEC@Concordia Launch Party + New Books by Haidee Wasson/Lee Grieveson and Rosanna Maule + Food and Drink
When: 5pm to 7pm; Friday, December 12th, 2008
Where: Le Social, 2nd Floor, 1445 Bishop, Montreal, Quebec
Click here for more information:
http://www.filmstudies.ca/journal/invite/
This year’s EASTMAN Scholarship Program, which is the U.S. & Canada regional prize of the KODAK Filmschool Competition, was awarded to Aonan Yang for his film Singularity. Click here for more information.
2nd Year MFA student, Steven Woloshen, has been invited by the 28th Brussels Festival of Cartoons and Animated films in Flagey / Brussels to screen a retrospective of his films.
Richard Kerr’s film Le bombardement du Port des Perles has been selected for the programme of the 3rd volume for the DVD collection by the Collectif Jeune Cinéma in France.: CINEMAS DIFFERENTS that CJC is co-editing together with the label Lowave, since 2005.
A short-film directed by Eric Piccoli from Film Production Program has been presented in various film festivals this summer.
Congratulations to Eric!
London Short Film Showcase - 23 - 24 august
Festival Neatworks - 9 august
Edmonton International Film Festival - 3 october
Congratulations to Ileana Daniela Darie, a film animation student whose short-animation “Abstract trilogy” is selected for the
World Film Festival in Montreal.
1 Tenure position available in the Film Studies program
The deadline to apply for this position is November 17th, 2008.
Click here to download the detailed job description in a PDF format.
Mike Rollo’s ‘’Ghosts and Gravel Roads’’ has been quite successful, and it will be featured the following film festivals around the world.
Festival International Documentaire Marseille, France (July 2-7, 2008)
Parnu International Documentary and Anthropology Film Festival, Estonia (July 6-12, 2008)
Gimli Film Festival, “Installation Program: Paths Across the Great Divide”, Manitoba, Canada (July 25-29)
Belo Horizonte Short Film Festival, “Special Documentary Exhibition”, Brazil (July 25-31, 2008)
The The WILD CARD ANIMATION SCREENING on May 31st, at the Theatre Ste. Catherine (264 Ste. Catherine E.) will be presented by the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema’s animation students to show their unique and creative body of work.
They will be holding two screenings: at 7 pm and at 9:30 pm followed by a musical performance by Barbajan with DJ Rupert Bottenberg at 11H30.
Admission fee is $5 at the door.
Short films created by Eva Cvijanovic (Film Animation) and Jacquelyn Mills (Film Production) have been recently selected at the Toronto International Film Festival, for the Student Film Showcase 08
Please click on the following links to find out more: Eva Cvijanovic’ PLAY and Jacquelyn Mills’ FOR WENDY; Fish Yu was the cinematographer of FOR WENDY.
The Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema congratulations to Eva, Jacquelyn, and to Fish Yu!
Congratulations to Francois Miron, who has won for CD/DVD Artwork Design of the Year for their work on Neon Bible, at the 2008 JUNO AWARD.
The Annual Awards Ceremony held on Thursday, May 1st at the DeSève Cinema was a terrific success.
We are pleased to announce that Andreas Mendritzki from Film Production, is the winner of the Mel Hoppenheim Award.
Congratulations to the students!
Here is the full list of all the award recipients from this year’s ceremony.
Click here to view the 2008 Year End Screening Program of Students’ Film.
Starts on Friday, May 2nd at 19H00 until Wednesday, until May 9th at 21H00.
Marianna Milhorat (BFA Film Production, 2007) has just received The Technicolor Cinematic Vision Award at the 21st Images Festival in Ontario. Images is a showcase for “Contemporary Moving Image Culture” and over 30 film and video works were eligible for the Technicolor award, which “honours excellence and innovation in the visual realization of work by a Candian film or video artist.” Marianna’s film, This is Not an Anchor, This Boat is Not an Anchor was her graduation film, for which she received The Mel Hoppenheim Award last year. It is very commendable that she won this prestigious Images award—$2,500 of 35mm lab or post-production services in the Toronto office donated by Technicolor—for a student film.
A number of other graduates or former students of Cinema at Concordia were represented at Images 21, including Nelson Henricks who was given a special “Canadian Artist Spotlight,” (and who also won an award), Karl Lemieux and John Price who, like Ms Milhorat had work in the International Shorts Program, Mike Rollo, Amber Goodwyn, Terryl Loffler, Daïchi Saïto, Brett Kashmere, Solomon Nagler, and Alexandre Larose, all of whom had Super-8 films shown.
Samantha Youssef, étudiante en film animation a remporté le prix du public au Cinéma3A, la rencontre de la relève du cinéma 2008, 4e édition, le 26 mars.
Daniel Cross, founding co-owner of EyeSteelFilm, is being honored by the documentary community, this week, in Cannes, France. Most recently, Daniel produced and distributed the Sundance- and IDFA-selected theatrical documentary Up The Yangtze. Cross’s previous award-winning theatrical documentaries include SPIT: Squeegee Punks In Traffic; The Street: A Film With The Homeless; and Chairman George: From Athens To Beijing. He is also an Assistant Professor in Film Production at Concordia University, Montreal.
PRODUCTIONS by Daniel Cross/ EyeSteelFilm - for video, go to: http://eyesteelfilm.com/channel.html
Also, check out: http://www.mipdoc.com/
As well as Assistant Professor Daniel Cross, another of our Cinema graduates, Yufuko Kuroda (BFA in Film
Studies, 2001) recently received one of the five MIPDOC Pioneers in Documentary Film at Cannes. Yufuko has been making films in Japan for the last five years.
Canada wants to grow with India
Sify, India - 29 Mar 2008
... and Cilia Sawadogo, film animation program head of Concordia Animation Program are the private sector representatives in the Canadian delegation. ...
11th edition of Synoptique, the MA students journal is ready on-line.
1. LTA position available in FMPR program
The deadline to apply for this position is April 18th, 2008.
Click here to view the full description.
2. Tenure position available in FMST program
The deadline to apply for this position is April 18th, 2008.
Click here to view the full description in a PDF format.
Hymn to Pan - François Miron was awarded the best art and experimental artistic creation award by the Conseil des arts et des letters du Québec.
Below are the list of films by the MHSC students in the best student works produced at Les Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois.
Animation category
Shimmer Box Drive, de Steven Woloshen
Révérence, de Patrick Bouchard
Tourists, The, de Malcolm Sutherland
--------------------------------------------------------
Aqui comienzan los estados unidos, de Marie-Ève Tremblay
Avant l’aube, de Patrick Aubert
Développement en trois minutes, de David Émond-Ferrat
DJINNOVA, de Véronique Brisson
Glitch, de Peter Ricq
J’viendrai t’chercher, de Sophie Dupuis
La Cerise sur le sundae, de Maude Coudé
Le Goût des plumes, de Simon Plouffe, Jean-Francois Morin
Jill and Jack, de Andreas Mendritzki, Aonan Yang
Sous ma peau, de Maxime Robin
This Is Not an Anchor, This Boat Is Not an Anchor, de Marianna Milhorat
Tic tac, de Emmanuelle Loslier
Underdog, de Mélanie Saumure
Un p’tit vent d’inconséquence, d’Amélie Labrèche
Hymn to Pan by François Miron was awarded the best art and experimental artistic creation award by the Conseil des arts et des letters du Québec,
awarded at the Rendez-Vous du Cinéma Québecois.
Important
Please note that applicants applying for Film Studies for Fall 2009 admission, are no longer required to submit portfolios. You are only required to submit online application via online.
Applicants may submit their dossier in one of the following three ways: in person, by courier or by mail.
For detailed information, please consult our admissions page.
By Courier or in Person:
Concordia University
Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema
Room FB 319
1250 rue Guy
Montréal, Québec, H3H 2T4
You can drop off your dossier at our main office.
From Monday, February 23th to Thursday, February 26th, 2009, between the hours of 08H30-12H00,
and between 13H30-17H30,
We are closed on Friday, February 27th. 2009, in respect of the President Holiday .
By Mail:
Concordia University
Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema
Room FB 319
1455 boul de Maisonneuve Ouest
Montréal, Québec, H3G 1M8
Applicants must ensure that dossiers submitted by mail are sent in sufficient time to be received in the School by MARCH 6th, 2009 at the latest. Dossiers received by mail with a postmark dated later than FEBRUARY 27th, 2009 will NOT be considered.
‘’Philippe et le papillon”, un court métrage de Sébastien Deschênes (en animation cinématographique) sera présenté au FIFEM (Festival International du Film pour Enfants de Montréal)
lundi 3 mars à 14h45
jeudi 6 mars à 12h15
Maxime Robin’s film ‘’Sous ma peau’’ has been presented at the following events:
- Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois
- Winner at Murgia Film Festival in Italy.
- Le meilleur film en français at Young Cuts Film Festival
Congratulations to Maxime Robin!
2008 University Research Awards Winners
Dr. Louise Dandurand, Vice-President, Research and Graduate Studies, and
Chair of the University Research Awards Adjudication Committee, is very
pleased to announce the 2008 University Research Awards Recipients:
This position is effective from August 15, 2008 to May 31, 2009.
The deadline to submit application is February 29, 2008.
Click here for a detailed information.
The Seminar on the History and Epistemology of Film Studies is pleased to present a lecture with
Professor Lee Grieveson, University College London
Click here to view the PDF poster.
Date: Friday, February 29
Time: 16H00-18H00
Place: EV-6.735
The following Film Animation students and graduates’ animation film have been selected at Les Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois .
Compétition Animation
Cette jolie photo d’elle, de Valérie Dupras, Benoit Chagnon
Let me do this one, de Dominic Étienne Simard, S.O
Out of the Weeping Web, de Thea Pratt, Thea Pratt
Shimmer Box Drive, de Steven Woloshen, S.O
Tourists, The, de Malcolm Sutherland
Compétition Étudiant:
Glitch, de Peter Ricq
Osmose, de Mathieu Tremblay
Tic tac, de Emmanuelle Loslier
Marie-Josée St-Pierre, a former student from FMAN, won a Jutra award in 2007 with her animated short McLaren’s Negatives.
To complement the British Cinema course that we are offering for the first time, we have scheduled a number of extra screenings of 16mm or 35mm prints from our collections (including the British-heavy Brandon collection), and of a few prints from the William K. Everson collection. The first double bill will be next Wednesday, February 6, in VA-114, at 19:00. We will be screening two rare World War II home front films, MILLIONS LIKE US (1943), a WKE print of, arguably, Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat’s best film and Ealing’s THE FOREMAN WENT TO FRANCE, directed by Charles Frend.
One of the short-listed candidates for a teaching position in Film Studies, Dr. Bruno Lessard, will be giving a public lecture on Monday, 21 January 2008, at 10:00 a.m., in E/V 1-605. The title of the talk will be “An Indeterminate Spectacle: Framing the Post-Cinematic Apparatus”. The 1/2 hour lecture will be followed by a Q & A. Everyone is welcome.
One of the short-listed candidates for a teaching position in Film Studies, Dr. Dale Hudson, will be giving a public lecture on Thursday, 17 January 2008, at 2:00 p.m., in S-VA 323. The title of the talk will be “Scratching the surface of film history: French icon, Hong Kong star, and Hollywood garb in “Irma Vep”. The 1/2 hour lecture will be followed by a Q & A. Everyone is welcome.
One of the short-listed candidates for a teaching position in Film Studies, Dr. Tess Takahashi, will be giving a public lecture on Wednesday, 16 January 2008, at 10:00 a.m., in E/V 1-615. The title of the talk will be “Aliens Among Us: Digital Media, Animation, and Critical Documentary.” The 1/2 hour lecture will be followed by a Q & A. Everyone is welcome.
One of the short-listed candidates for a position in Film Studies will be
giving a public lecture on Friday January 4, at 14:00, in the EV building (room number T.B.C.). His
name is Marc Steinberg and the title of his talk is “How Characters Became
Ubiquitous: Astro Boy and Meiji Seika’s Sticker Campaign.” In short, he
will be discussing the marketing of the very first “star” of Anime
(Japanese Animation). The 1/2 hour lecture will be followed by a Q & A.
Everyone is welcome.
Peter Rist and Sacha Orenstein (FMST student) are invited to the African Film Conference at University of Illinois, which is from November 8th to 10th, 2007. Peter Rist will present Visual Style and Content in Sembène’s Emitaï and Sacha Orenstein will present Non-narrative Elements in Touki Bouki: Analysis and Contextualization of the First Montage Sequence.
Shira Avni, a part-time faculty in Film Animation will have her artwork exhibited at the following event in Chicago.
Bilingual, Art at the Intersection of Painting and Video
October 29, 2007 – January 11, 2008
Reception: November 1, 5-7pm
Bilingual focuses on artwork at the intersection of painting and drawing, film and video, encompassing both conceptual and process-driven approaches. The artists in this exhibition are acting as visual linguists or interpreters, breaking down one language and reconstructing it in another, holding the sense of the structure together with an understanding of both.
Bilingual will feature works by Shira Avni, Kylie Baker, Wafaa Bilal, Jeremy Blake, Eddy De Vos, Terence Hannum, Jay Heikes, John Hiltabidel & John Grant, Jo Jackson, William Kentridge, Patte Loper, Joshua Mosley, Sabina Ott, David Reed, Peter Rostovsky, Alison Ruttan, Jason Salavon, Marcelino Stuhmer, Fraser Taylor, Jim Trainor, and Scott Wolniak.
Bilingual is curated by Tracy Marie Taylor.
For More Information: please contact Mark Porter at 312/344-6643 or
Richard Kerr has been invited to the 29th Havana Film Festival on December 13th 2007, where he will present a program of his work titled Political & Experimental: Film Essays by Richard Kerr.
FASA CLUB FUNDING, DEADLINE: OCTOBER 12th, 2007, 5pm
FASA SPECIAL PROJECTS FUNDING, DEADLINE OCTOBER 25th, 2007, 5pm
Congratulations to Nathan Boey, who has recently won the 2007 Teletoon Animation Scholarship Award, 1st place in the continuing eduacation categorey for his ‘Family Picture’, at the Ottawa Film Festival. This film is made entirely on a scanner, stop motion.
Congratulations to Sophie Dupuis (Film Production major) who has recently won a jury prize on her film J’viendrai t’chercher at ‘’Off-Courts’’ film festival in Trouville-sur-mer, France.
Pending approval from the Ministère de l’Éducation, du Loisir et du Sport du Québec, the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema at Concordia University will begin offering a Ph.D. in Film and Moving Image Studies in September 2008.
The Short film that has received “le prix du public, meilleur court métrage canadien” at the FFM has been directed by David Uloth, a former student from Film Production program (graduated 2000).
“Fais ça court” a new televison series based on shooting short films live on TV will be hosted by Mariloup Wolfe (Film Production, graduated 2003) and Guillaume Lonergan (Major in Film Production) will be participating.
Several former students of the MHSC have won awards at the Gémaux award ceremony:
Jean-François Asselin (scriptwriter-director, Major in Film Production) won meilleure comédie pour la série: François en série.
Meilleure direction photographique : dramatique
Le Prix est remis en collaboration avec Kodak Canada - film cinématographique
Jérôme Sabourin (Specialization in Film Production) - LE NÉGOCIATEUR « In memoriam » (Les Productions Sovimage)
Meilleur son : dramatique (Simon Poudrette; Specialization in Film Production 1998)
(Sébastien Bédard, Guillaume Boursier, Robert Labrosse, Martin Messier, Peggy Morin Marois), Simon Poudrette - MINUIT, LE SOIR « Épisode 1 » (Zone3)
Meilleur premier rôle : jeunesse
Mariloup Wolfe(Film Production, graduated 2003) - RAMDAM « Épisode 572 » (Vivaclic)
Click here to view the full document in PDF format.
BEST ANIMATION PRODUCTION :
« TIC TAC » by Emmanuelle Loslier (Concordia University, Film Animation)
BEST EXPERIMENTAL PRODUCTION :
« POUR SINCLAIR » by Maxime Brouillet (Concordia University, Film Production)
PLEASE ANNOUNCE TO YOUR CLASS(ES) THAT ON FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7 BETWEEN 12:45-AND 13:15 THERE WILL BE AN ORIENTATION SESSION IN FB 307 (STUDIO). ALL FULL-TIME, PART-TIME FACULTY AND STAFF ARE INVITED TO BE THERE.
François Miron’s new short film “Hymn to Pan” has been selected for The Toronto International Film Festival where it will play in September, the film will then return to Montreal to be featured at The Nouveau Cinema Festival in October.
Louise Lamarre, our full-time faculty member of Film Production Program and an independent filmmaker-researcher, will show a 6 minute demo-trailer and talk about her technical innovation in the field of special effects that has just been granted an American Patent, at the press conference which is part of the Festival des Film du Monde, on August 28th 2007, in the Alfred Rouleau room A, Level 4, Hotel Hyatt, Complexe Desjardins, Montreal.
For more details, visit : http://www.H-E-L-P.ca
Richard Kerr has been recognized as the International Fellow for the DeSantis Center for Motion Picture Industry Studies.
His installation will take place in Los Angeles in November 2007, during the 10th anniversary celebration of the DeSantis Center.
CONGRATULATIONS TO RICHARD KERR!!
Mariloup Wolfe, a filmmaker and an actress is a MHSC film production graduate (2003). This young filmer has already produced a number of shortfilms, such as Fly Fly et Trois petits coups.
She’ll be the animator of Fais ça court, an upcoming TV show on Téléquébec.
She has also played the role of Marianne in Ramdan, a TV series.
Un, deux, trois, crépuscule by Félix Dufour Laperrière, a graduate of Film Animation, has won the best non-fiction film award at the recent KAFI (Kalamazoo international animation festival)
Peter Rist and Dave Douglas received grant from the Audio-Visual Preservation Trust and the Department of Canadian Heritage. The grant was under the Trust’s Feature-Film Education Access Program (FFEAP). This was the fourth grant that they have received from the Trust in four years, and the grant was to fund our project, the Pioneers in Independent Canadian Cinema (PICC). The project itself is to work on posted by Olivia Ward :: 05 Jun , 2007
Congratulations to Jeannes Pope and Zoe Mapp, two of Film Production students, whose film Birth of the Smoked Meat, has been recently shown at the Cannes Film Festival, in the Short Film Showcase.
In February 2007, professor Peter Rist and professor Cilia Sawadogo attended the prestigious FESPACO (Festival Pan African du Cinéma et de la télévision de Ouagadougou) with a group of 18 students from film studies, film production and film animation.
All students attended the multiple screening and seminars by prominent African film makers.
The group was lodged at the international film center IMAGINE owned by well known filmmaker Gaston Kaboré.
On their way back, some students stayed a few days in Morocco and visited Casablanca
Click here to view photos from Ouagadougou
They have also appeared on the Offscreen online magazine.
The Concordia Cinema Students
in association with The Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema and Cinema du Parc
is proud to present…
The 34th Annual
Mel Hoppenhiem School of Cinema Student Film Festival
The MHSoC Film Festival Parties and Events (PDF format)
François Miron’s feature film ‘The 4th Life’’ will have its Nortj American Premiere on Friday, March 23rd at the Boston Underground Film Festival. The 4th Life has already been presented at the films festivals held in Italy and in Luxembourg in fall 2007.
A prestigious venue for an independant cinema selected films by Richard Kerr, the Chair
by François Miron, and by Alex LaRose, a FMPR student.
March 20th to 25th, 2007.
Click here to check out the official website of Ann Arbor Festival.
Torill Kove, our previous student from Film Animation Program wins Oscar for “Best Animated Short”.
Click on the following link to read more about the award.