CAST
STEPHANIE DIANI
Photographer, New-York
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Stephanie Diani is a New York-based photographer who makes portraits of A-list celebrities (and others) for a cool group of discerning editors, art buyers and creative directors. She uses cinematic light and shadow to capture the subtle nuances of her subjects in moments of contemplation, humor or playfulness. She is self-taught, has been an independent photography professional for twenty years, and still gets giddy about a great shoot. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, TIME, Fortune, Inc, AARP, American Way, Good Housekeeping, Backstage, The Wrap, The Wall Street Journal, Popular Mechanics and The Harvard Business Review and many other leading publications.
JOCELYN MICHEL
Photographer, Montreal
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Jocelyn Michel is a photographer known for his unique portraits and staging. His work is inspired by theatre, fiction, and absurd humour, and his aesthetic is rooted in the surrealist and dada current. Jocelyn focuses on pure emotions, gestures, to create magic moments. He live in Montreal and regularly works for magazines and advertising. He also published a book gathering his photographic essay.
CHRIS BUCK
Photographer, New-York
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Chris Buck is a photographer and director based in New York and Los Angeles, know for his unconventional portraits. In the 90’s, he focuses on a series of portraits for magazines, and begins a progression toward a more and more notorious clientele, photographing more celebrities. His clients include Google, Old Spice, SAP, Kia, GQ, and the Guardian Weekend. He has won many awards, including being the first recipient of the Arnold Newman Portrait Prize in 2007. His second book, UNEASY, a 30-year portrait retrospective was published in spring of 2017. Chris takes his martinis dry, with a twist.
ERIN PAUWELS
Professor of art history, Philadelphia
Erin Pauwels specializes in American art of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and also teaches history and critical theory of photography at Temple University. Her current work explores the intersections of art, consumer culture and public identity in the late nineteenth-century United States using the career of Napoleon Sarony, an eccentric Gilded Age portrait photographer, as an extended case study. Dr. Pauwels holds a Ph.D. in Art History and American Studies from Indiana University, and a M.A. in Humanities and Social Thought from the Draper Interdisciplinary Master’s Program of New York University.
PRODUCTION CREW
MARIANNE LANGSTON
Video editor, Montreal
Marianne has a sense of rhythm. She cuts, sticks, chooses, exchanges, tells stories. After editing her own projects, in another life while making music videos for singers and rock bands in the early 2000s, she now works as an exclusive editor. Telling other people’s stories is her passion. She brings her personal touch, see’s what they would not have seen, change’s the possibilities. She has worked on documentaries, corporate films, music videos and a lot of web content for 10 years now.
CHARLES-EMMANUEL LESPERANCE
Musician and composer, Montreal
At five, Charles-Emmanuel l’Espérance began playing piano and has perfected his playing all the way to learning jazz performance at the Cégep de Sherbrooke. During his college studies, he developed as an musician and composer in many musical groups and continues today to perform as a freelance musician. In 2015, he received a bachelor’s degree in music composition to image at Sherbrooke University, which trained him on movie, advertising and video game music. His career leads him to realize projects with rock, electronic, jazz and pop flavors as a co-producer, director, composer, arranger or musician.
MICHAEL BINETTE
Sound designer, Montréal
Michael Binette graduated from The Theater School of the Cégep de St-Hyacinthe in 2004. In the following years, he collaborated in a post-production sound studio, for documentaries such as Du bord des bêtes, Avec conviction, Sans espoir, Vue de l’Est, Parc Lafontaine, Scrapper l’art and l’Est pour toujours. He also designed soundtracks for theater productions. In 2011, he become owner of the studio where he began twelve years ago as a sound designer and mixer. He now engineers sound for short and feature films, web series and other projects that are mostly assembled and then mixed in his studio.
CHRISTIAN FLEURY
Producer and director, Montreal
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Christian Fleury is an full-time image creator, good father, occasional woodworker and total kungfu movie fan. He discovered photography in Victoria, British Columbia and began his apprenticeship in Toronto. Today, he creates images of people, situations, or environments for magazines, businesses and institutions such as Canadian Geographic, BMO and Concordia University. Christian works in parallel on his personal documentary video projects. Actively involved in CAPIC association, he was a mentor, speaker and member of the national committee and finally president of CAPIC National. He is also co-founder of the studio collective L’Archipel.
LAURENCE POIRIER
Cameraman and shooting executive producer
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Laurence Poirier lives and work in photography in Montréal. After studying at Cégep du Vieux-Montréal and Concordia University in fine arts, Laurence Poirier began a career combining art and commercial photography. She made herself known with a serie of portraits of Montreal artists called *(étoile) as part of the duo Laurence & Laurent. She has produced and co-directed video clips like Chandail with Simon Kingsbury and Hibou with Vincent Appleby.
BETTY BOGAERT
Executive producer, Montreal
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Betty Bogaert studied at the University of Savoy in France and obtained a degree in Multimedia and Internet Trades. She continued her studies in Quebec and obtained a DEC in photography at the Cégep de Matane. Her interests lead her to work in photography, video, technical staging or for visual art festivals. At the same time, her personal artistic practice is part of a documentary vein. She has exhibited at the Promenades Photographiques de Vendôme in 2016 and has done a creative residency as Young Talent Springboard at the Planche(s) Contact Festival of Deauville in 2017. She currently lives and works in Montréal.