Exclusive: Following the successful Venice debut of her first feature, Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person, French-Canadian filmmaker Ariane Louis-Seize has taken on new reps at WME and Curate Management.
Louis-Seize’s French-language dramedy, which she co-wrote and directed, tells the story of the teenage Sasha (played by Sara Montpetit), who unlike other vampires, needs to feel a personal connection to her chosen prey. The narrative takes an unexpected turn when she crosses paths with Paul (Félix-Antoine Bénard), a disenchanted young man convinced that life has nothing left to offer him.
As Sasha befriends Paul, an unusual proposition emerge, with Paul willingly stepping into the role of her next meal. But the bizarre arrangement hits a snag due to Sasha’s unique struggle with empathy.
After winning the Best Director award in the Giornate degli Autori program of the Venice Film Festival, Humanist Vampire went on to make its North...
Louis-Seize’s French-language dramedy, which she co-wrote and directed, tells the story of the teenage Sasha (played by Sara Montpetit), who unlike other vampires, needs to feel a personal connection to her chosen prey. The narrative takes an unexpected turn when she crosses paths with Paul (Félix-Antoine Bénard), a disenchanted young man convinced that life has nothing left to offer him.
As Sasha befriends Paul, an unusual proposition emerge, with Paul willingly stepping into the role of her next meal. But the bizarre arrangement hits a snag due to Sasha’s unique struggle with empathy.
After winning the Best Director award in the Giornate degli Autori program of the Venice Film Festival, Humanist Vampire went on to make its North...
- 12/12/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Get ready to get your Q on!
The 15th Annual QFest St. Louis — presented by Cinema St. Louis (Csl) — will take place from April 29-May 5 at the Galleria 6 Cinemas, with a selection of programs also available online. The online programs can be streamed at any time during the festival’s dates.
The St. Louis-based LGBTQ film festival, QFest will present an eclectic array of 35 films from 13 countries. The participating filmmakers represent a wide variety of voices in contemporary queer world cinema. The mission of the film festival is to use the art of contemporary gay cinema to spotlight the lives of LGBTQ people and to celebrate queer culture.
The fest is especially pleased to host the St. Louis premiere of “The Depths,” a rarely seen 2001 work by internationally acclaimed filmmaker Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, and a reprise from Sliff of Sebastian Meiser’s prison drama “Great Freedom.” Another highlight is this year’s Q Classic,...
The 15th Annual QFest St. Louis — presented by Cinema St. Louis (Csl) — will take place from April 29-May 5 at the Galleria 6 Cinemas, with a selection of programs also available online. The online programs can be streamed at any time during the festival’s dates.
The St. Louis-based LGBTQ film festival, QFest will present an eclectic array of 35 films from 13 countries. The participating filmmakers represent a wide variety of voices in contemporary queer world cinema. The mission of the film festival is to use the art of contemporary gay cinema to spotlight the lives of LGBTQ people and to celebrate queer culture.
The fest is especially pleased to host the St. Louis premiere of “The Depths,” a rarely seen 2001 work by internationally acclaimed filmmaker Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, and a reprise from Sliff of Sebastian Meiser’s prison drama “Great Freedom.” Another highlight is this year’s Q Classic,...
- 4/4/2022
- by Michelle Hannett
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Left: Storytellers (2013), Right: Asako I & II (2018).When the Covid-19 pandemic (which health justice activists have been calling a “mass disabling event”) waylaid plans to film Drive My Car in Busan, South Korea, Ryusuke Hamaguchi was initially unenthusiastic about his producer’s suggestion to instead shoot in Hiroshima. In Esprit, he explains his worry that it was too heavy-handed a location, both because of the city’s history and his own. Understanding why requires us to rewind to March 2011, when another social and environmental crisis brought into relief the major themes of his work, notably a focus on disability and its relationship to storytelling, performance, and the power and politics of listening.In the months following the devastating Great East Japan Earthquake, media outlets likened the Japanese government’s expedient response to Hiroshima’s miraculous rebirth after WWII. Meanwhile, filmmakers were seeding an artistic counter-response, documenting the individual voices buried under a homogenized,...
- 3/28/2022
- MUBI
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