On Friday, June 4th, Canadian filmmaker Patricia Chica got a tribute retrospect in her honour organized by Festivalissimo, a film festival, at the Ex-Centris movie theatre. Besides, Chica got decorated.
First of all, the 150 people who attended this event in Montreal saw twelve film and video works of the past twelve years, in chronological order, in order for the viewers to witness the evolution of her narrative and visual style as an artist. There was the short film The Promise, some music videos directed by Chica, teasers of the documentaries Rockabilly 514 and Twice K.O., as well as her latest film Day Before Yesterday.
Among the personalities that showed up at the screening there were various actors and protagonists from her films such as Francine Grimaldi (The Promise), Michelle Boback and Richard Robitaille (Day Before Yesterday), The Richard and Eric Paradis (fetish scene celebrities) as well as Magdalena Piwowarski...
First of all, the 150 people who attended this event in Montreal saw twelve film and video works of the past twelve years, in chronological order, in order for the viewers to witness the evolution of her narrative and visual style as an artist. There was the short film The Promise, some music videos directed by Chica, teasers of the documentaries Rockabilly 514 and Twice K.O., as well as her latest film Day Before Yesterday.
Among the personalities that showed up at the screening there were various actors and protagonists from her films such as Francine Grimaldi (The Promise), Michelle Boback and Richard Robitaille (Day Before Yesterday), The Richard and Eric Paradis (fetish scene celebrities) as well as Magdalena Piwowarski...
- 6/7/2010
- by anhkhoido@hotmail.com (Anh Khoi Do)
- The Cultural Post
During the last week-end, Day Before Yesterday (my review), an eleven-minute short film directed by Patricia Chica, won its 8th award at the Sacramento International Film Festival.
This means that this short psychological thriller about an amnesiac woman received the Outstanding Foreign Short Film Award. The week before that, Patricia Chica's work (starring Michelle Boback, JacquesGodin, Richard Robitaille and Leif Anderson) had won the Platinum Remi Award (1rst Place for Best Directing - Short Film category) at the WorldFest - Houston International Film Festival.
Moreover, if you're curious about this short film, you can see it at the Ex-Centris movie theatre on Friday, June 4, 2010 at 5 p.m. during a retrospective of Chica's films that Festivalissimo is presenting this year. This event will also be an opportunity to discover the filmmaker's earlier works; such award-winning shorts like The Promise (featuring a cast of Montrealers: Victoria Sanchez, Stéphane Gagnon, Manuel Tadros,...
This means that this short psychological thriller about an amnesiac woman received the Outstanding Foreign Short Film Award. The week before that, Patricia Chica's work (starring Michelle Boback, JacquesGodin, Richard Robitaille and Leif Anderson) had won the Platinum Remi Award (1rst Place for Best Directing - Short Film category) at the WorldFest - Houston International Film Festival.
Moreover, if you're curious about this short film, you can see it at the Ex-Centris movie theatre on Friday, June 4, 2010 at 5 p.m. during a retrospective of Chica's films that Festivalissimo is presenting this year. This event will also be an opportunity to discover the filmmaker's earlier works; such award-winning shorts like The Promise (featuring a cast of Montrealers: Victoria Sanchez, Stéphane Gagnon, Manuel Tadros,...
- 4/27/2010
- by anhkhoido@hotmail.com (Anh Khoi Do)
- The Cultural Post
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