Specialties
Cinemascope (35mm and 16mm) and other widescreen formats. Every flavour of digital cinema as well, from Alexas to Epics to EX-1s.
Editing (picture and sound): Lightworks, FCP, Premiere, Vegas, Sound Forge, ProTools, Avid.
Work experience
(September 2012 to
present)
Board member - Membre du conseil d'administration,
Main Film
Main Film, is Montreal's film co-op, supporting this city's independent film community.
Main Film est la coopérative de cinéma de Montréal, au service de notre communauté de cinéastes indépendants.
(January 1994 to
present)
Director,
Ewola Cinéma
Ewola Cinéma is a small independent production company, presently used for personal projects and co-productions. (see filmography/voir filmographie)
as of 2013: two features in development (writing support from Conseil des arts et lettres du Québec and Canada Council for the Arts), one short in postproduction (with BravoFACT)
(September 1985 to
present)
Cinematographer / directeur photo,
(various)
Short dramatic films, documentaries, independent features. (see filmography)
Courts métrages, documentaires, long métrages indépendants. (voir filmographie)
(September 2012 to
December 2012)
Réalisateur,
Cirque du Soleil
Réalisation d'un petit vidéo corpo de 5 minutes pour la division Évènements du CDS, avec Guy Laliberté et beaucoup de films d'archives.
Réalisation et montage d'un autre vidéo de 5 minutes pour un pitch pour un évènement spécifique.
Co-réalisation d'un vidéo de présentation pitch infographique pour un évènement spécifique.
(June 2012 to
July 2012)
EPK/Making Of cameraman,
It Takes A Village Productions (Sony/Columbia/Kerner Entertainment)
Camera operation for behind-the-scenes on set, electronic press kit interviews, and making of footage for the film The Smurfs 2.
(January 2012 to
April 2012)
VFX On-set coordinator,
One Race Films (as Riddick Productions Canada)
Working directly under VFX supervisor Gunnar Hansen (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0360816/) on the main unit of the as-yet-untitled third Chronicles of Riddick science-fiction film (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1411250/), I was responsible for camera and tracking information, set & greenscreen tracking marker placement, reference photography and video, liaison with camera crew and mobile ipad-based database management.
(1999 to
2000)
Editor, post-production co-ordinator,
IMAX
pre-edited (leica reels and animatics) and sound edited Sandde animation sequences of the movie "Cyberworld 3D", the first 3D animated movie in Imax. Also edited Imax Sandde's demo reel, both digitally and for the 15/70 film conform. see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandde
(1998 to
1999)
Director Resident (Co-Production),
The Banff Centre
Production and direction of "Incident at Tango Creek", with Janet Oxley
(1994 to
1994)
Installation technician,
Lightworks
Installed & serviced Lightworks turn-key non-linear editing systems at NFB, Cinar & others, for OLE Canada. (I still have three complete systems!) see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightworks
(1993 to
1994)
Video producer/editor,
Dataspace Insight
video production: demos and instructional segments for specialised 3D scientific visualisation software.
(1989 to
1993)
Owner,
Signal Arts
freelance technical direction for corporate presentations, including computer operation, video production, operation of computer-based presentations and audience response systems for the Royal Bank, Bristol-Myers-Squibb, Air Canada, Bell and others.
(1989 to
1992)
Technical director, multi-image programmer,
Audio Visual Dynamics
technical direction for corporate presentations, including computer operation and multi-image operation for Ayerst, La Laurentienne, Banque de Montréal, Imperial Tobacco, Sun Life, Air Liquide and others. Permanent installations at the Musée d'Histoire de Montréal.
(1987 to
1988)
Multi-image programmer,
Diagraf
multi-image programming and/or graphics creation for Gillette, Northern Telecom, Hydro-Quebec, Pixcom and others.
Education
(1997 to
1999)
Director resident at
Canadian Film Centre
Diplôme d'études secondaires at
Collège de Montréal
B.A. at
Concordia University
Diplôme d'études collégiales at
Marianopolis College
