McLaren’s Negatives will be screened as part of this special program. As the only festival in the world DOK Leipzig has continuously shown animated documentary films in its Animadoc programme for 15 years. We celebrate this anniversary with a brief historical journey through these extraordinary films, which explore the realities captured in the documentary and creativity of the animation. Program
Montreal’s Summit of Animation is celebrating it’s 10th anniversary this year. This festival, created by the Cinémathèque Québécoise, is the most importation manifestation of animation in Québec.
Les Sommets du cinéma d’animation de Montréal
The Sapporo Project will be presented in the program Québec + Canada friday December 2nd at 23h00 and sunday December 4 at 19h30 in the Claude-Jutra theatre at the Cinémathèque Québécoise.
Programme Québec + Canada
Also, Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre will be present for the two ‘Meet the filmmakers’ sessions saturday December 3rd and sunday December 4th at 13h30 at the bar of the Cinémathèque.
Meet the filmmakers
MJSTP Films would like to thank the Quebec Arts Council for funding The Blue Marble! We are now in full production!
Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre’s portrait by the Quebec blog Nous Sommes Les Filles
Every week, Sarianne Cormier & Julie Artacho present two emerging female artists on their blog.
Female will be screened in these upcoming film festivals:
Taiwan International Woman Film Festival
St-Louis International Film Festival
Ellensburg Film Festival
Hamilton, French Film Festival
MJSTP Films is thrilled to announce the financing of the film JUTRA is finally completed with the help of the Québec Arts Council!
In collaboration with the Cinémathèque Québécoise and Vidéographe, there will be a spotlight on Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre’s animated work in January 2013 in Montreal.
Two separate events will be held:
A masterclass where she will talk about her creation process and how she makes her animated images.
Thursday January 24 at 18h30 at the Cinémathèque Québécoise.
Also, there will be a retrospective of her animated documentary work.
Thursday January 31 at 18h30 at the Cinémathèque Québécoise.
The programme d’Aide aux cinéastes indépendants (ACIC) celebrates it’s 40th year and the NFB has put on their site “Passages”: http://www.onf.ca/film/passages/
Our two new films will be screened at Regard sur le court métrage au Saguenay:
Created using outtakes—tests—that were done to make the film A Chairy Tale (1957) by master of animation Norman McLaren, Flocons is a black-and-white short set to the music of Tchaikovsky and featuring none other than Canadian filmmaker Claude Jutra, who plays a character imprisoned in the celluloid on which McLaren paints directly. Flocons aims to celebrate the 100th anniversary, in 2014, of Norman McLaren’s birth.
Ingeniously combining archival material and animated sequences, Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre has created a cinematic and clever portrait of the man who gave us Mon oncle Antoine, filmmaker Claude Jutra. Continuing work begun in 2006 with McLaren’s Negatives, which focused on Norman McLaren, Saint-Pierre hones her quest for a unique form of animated documentary, skillfully and boldly synthesizing the life and career of another giant of cinema.
Through the magic of editing and animation, Claude Jutra engages in a dialogue with himself at various stages of his life, thereby becoming the witty narrator of his own biography. Excerpts from home movies, interviews and well-known works by the filmmaker artfully blend and overlap to tell the story of an existence devoted to creation. Jutra is at once a tribute, a love song to filmmaking, and the retelling of the tragedy of a brilliant artist who died too young. Produced by Marie-Josée St-Pierre ( MJSTP films) in co-production with the NFB (Marc Bertrand).
