LUC PICARD Guest of Honor and Chairman of the Jury, Paul Pelletier, Bruno Copral and Julien LeBlanc Members of the Jury at the 15th LES PERCEIDES Film Festival
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Bercy International Film and Arts Festival – Les Bercedes is proud to announce that Quebec actor and director Luc Picard will be Honorary President and Chairman of the Jury for the 15th Les Bercedes Festival, which will take place in Bercy and Gaspésé from August 15th to 20th. On Saturday, August 19, Luc Picard will give a film lesson at sea during the Ciné-Croisière festival, an activity very popular with Gaspé film fans. Finally, a cinematic class on the approach of the prolific director and actor will take place at Cinema Les Percéides on Saturday, August 19th at 10 am. Les Percéides Festival will show the feature film L’audition, which will be followed by a master class.
An artist committed to Block Picard
Upon graduating from the Montreal Conservatory of Dramatic Arts in 1988, Luc Picard carved out an important place for himself in Quebec’s artistic community. He played in several theaters in the city and his character was noticed by the general public as François Pelletier in Omerta, a role for which he received the Gémeaux Award and the Métrostar Award for Best Male Interpretation. The character of the Gaspian hunter Nome in the historical series L’Ombre de l’épervier (1999) by Robert Favreau and the character of the legendary syndicate Michel Chartrand in the series Simonne and Chartrand (2003) earned him Gémeau for Best Male Interpretation. . In cinema, he distinguished himself especially for his interpretation of Chevalier de Lorimaire on 15 February 1839 and in October by Pierre Fallardot, at 8:17 p.m. Darling Street by Bernard Eymond, Le Collectionnor by Jean Boudin, Un dimanche a Kigali by Robert Favreau or Marécages by Guy Edoin. Luc Picard is also the director of the films L’Audition (2005), Babine (2008), Ésimésac (2012), 9, a film – a surprise sketch (2016), Les rois mongols (2017) and Confessions (2022). In 2023, Jean-Paul Riopelle stars as an actor in the new creation by Robert Lepage that commemorates the life of the great Quebec painter. In 2022, at the Whistler Film Festival, Luc Picard receives the Confessions Award for Best Director.
Member of the arbitration committee
Paul Pelletier was born in Ottawa, Ontario. She holds a Master of Arts from the University of Ottawa. She has 35 years of experience as an actress, author, director, educator, and theoretician. She is a complete artist who sings, dances and performs in four languages. From the age of 22, she has played on stages in Ottawa, Stratford, Toronto, Quebec and Montreal. She was co-founder and co-director of two companies that marked the history of Quebec theater with startling innovations: the Montreal Experimental Theater with Jean-Pierre Ronvard and Robert Gravelle (1975-1979), and today the New Experimental Theater and the Experimental Women’s Theater The Theater (1979-1985) became Espace Go, in which she pioneered work to impact Women in the Performing Arts. A committed feminist, she also participated in performances that marked an important stage in the voice of local women, in particular La nef des Sorcières, at the Théâtre du nouveau monde in 1976. In the 1990s she founded Compagnie Pol Pelletier and created a series of performances
Joy, Ocean and Gold, which became a hit, in Montreal and on a national and international tour. In 1993, French director Ariane Mnouchkin invited him to stage her show Joie at the Théâtre du Soleil in Paris. Her performances have won her numerous awards, including the Masque Award for Women’s Interpretation awarded by the Academy of Theater in 1998 for Joy and Ocean.
Bruno Moraes, Portuguese producer
Bruno Moraes Cabral, born in 1980, is a film producer and director. Dedicated particularly to documentaries, his work in film and television seeks to raise important questions about history and contemporary society and its changes. In 2020, he founded Wonder Maria with João Nuno Pinto, Andrea Nunes and Fernanda Polacco, where he began developing documentary film projects internationally, with a particular focus on Brazil and Africa. He works regularly on films for museums and galleries, and has produced and directed films for the Gobi Museum, the National Museum of Resistance and Freedom, the Electricity Museum/EDP Foundation, the National Museum of Natural History and Science, and the General Directorate of Culture. Heritage, Directorate General of Archives, Ministry of Education and Science and collaborates in production and development with other production companies such as Faux, Ukbar Filmes and Ar de Filmes. He is currently producing a documentary called Fado Bicha which will be released to theaters in 2024. The author-documentary follows Portuguese artists and musicians Lila Tiago and João Caçador in their concerts around Portugal and their intimate lives. This cinematic project was born of a clear political will: to make fado a space for militaristic expression through the queer identities of musicians, inspired by the underground circles of the nineteenth century.
Julien Lebanon and Nadia Ait Saidane are members of the short film jury
Julien LeBlanc, director of photography, director and producer at Télé-Québec’s La Fabrique Culturelle in Gaspésie and the Islands, is from St-Alexis de Matapédia in Gaspésie and travels the territory in search of related and unknown characters as well as unlikely places. He has been involved in several projects related to short films for many years developing the KINO 132 creation unit and is a longtime collaborator with Festival Les Percéides.
Nadia Ait Said, originally from Gaspésie, is based in Chandler at the MRC du Rocher-Percé. Graduated in Anthropology and Visual Arts, she has enriched her career with studies in architecture, presentation design, contemporary dance, and cross-cultural communication. She has been working for several years in multi-disciplinary installations, works involving the community and collaborating with videographers, photographers and lighting designers. His work has been exhibited in various museums, artist-run centers, galleries, and embassies in Quebec, Canada, the United States, France, Belgium, Algeria, and Japan. A recipient of grants from CALQ and CAC, she was also a finalist for the Prix du CALQ-Work of the Year at Gaspésie in 2014 for her installation ENGRAMME. Received a jury reference, the 2019 Artist in Society Award, awarded by Les Arts et la Ville Network | calq. She was also a finalist for the 2023 CALQ Award – Artist of the Year. His works are part of private collections in Quebec, the United States, and Europe, as well as public collections.
This year, Les Percéides Festival will take place in three locations including Les Percéides Cinema in Bercy, the festival’s main venue, UNESC0 Global Geopark in Bercy and Le Cube Cinema in Gaspé. The official program and selection will be revealed on July 25th at 11 am on the website www.perceides.ca
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