Concordians made their presence felt at the Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois festival this year.

There were a large number of current students, as well as Concordia graduates and professors in the line up.

The Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois, which ran from February 17 to 27, has become one of the most important venues in Quebec for and up-and-coming (and established) filmmakers to promote their work.

Here’s a sampling of Concordians who were at this year’s festival:

Student showcase:
- Départ (Slava Mladenova)
- L’homme boréal (François Laurent)
- La règle du futur composé (Claudia Hébert)
- Oparine (Stéphane Calce)
- Perceptual Subjectivity (Philippe Léonard)
- S’oublier (Mirek Hamet.) See the Concordia Journal article.
- Sybille (Léa Jeanmougin)

Students, graduates and professors past and present:
- Stereo Norman (Alison Reiko Loader, MA in Media Studies)
- NKP (Epher Heilland, a duo composed of Concordia grads Michael Shu and Stéphane Grasso)
- 3 notes (Alexandre Gibault)
- Temps chimique (André Turpin)
- That’s Right Diana Barry - You Needed Me and Ultimate Sub Ultimate Dom: Maria von Trapp & Mary Poppins (Dayna McLeod, who is also a part-time instructor in Communications Studies)
- Among Friends (Geoffrey Uloth)
- Edge of the Desert (Lea Nakonechny, with producer Adam Budd)
- Temps pour aéroports (Eduardo Menz)
- Useless Things (Faisal Lutchmedial)
- Lost Song and Hommes à louer (Rodrigue Jean. Jean will also be speaking at Concordia as part of the Mary Ann Beckett-Baxter Memorial Lecture on March 5).
- Les pieds dans le vide (Mariloup Wolfe)
- Pour toujours les canadiens (Sylvain Archambault)
- Un cargo pour L’Afrique (Roger Cantin)
- L’est (Jeremy Peter Allen)
- King Chicken (Nicolas Bolduc)
- Le gardien d’hiver (Katherine Jerkovic)
- Une étoile de mer (Patrick Bossé)
- Day before yesterday (Patricia Chica)
- Others (François Miron)
- Hydromorphone 8MG (François Miron)
- Fear of Snakes (Andreas Mendritzki)
- Trees of Syntax, Leaves of Axis (Daichi Saito)
- Editorial (Steven Woloshen)
- Knife (Nancy Baric)
- Playtime (Steven Woloshen)
- Chromosome (X-Y-Z) (Dominic Etienne Simard)
- The Astronomer’s Dream (Malcolm Sutherland)
- Corps Chimiques (Pascale Bilodeau)
- Ces yeux tristes ne sont pas des marques d’amour (Maxine Brouillet)
- Who is KK Downey? (Pat Kiely, Darren Curtis)
- À vos marques … Party! 2 (Mariloup Wolfe)
- Lucidité Passagere (Nicolas Bolduc, Julien Knafo et al.)
- Suzie (Micheline Lanctôt)
- Ali Shan (Yung Chang)
- The Delian Mode (Kara Blake)
- H2Oil (Shannon Walsh)
- Je porte le voile (Natasha Ivisic)
- Satan, Jesus & Elvis (Pierre Ayotte)
- Among Friends (Geoffrey Uloth)
- Si tu savais Rosalie (Sophie Dyupuis)
- La Chute (Ivan Grbovic)
- Margot et Bastien (Sara Bourdeau)
- In the Depth of the Summer (Aonan Yang)
- Sexxx (Izabel Grondin)
- Suha (Robby Reis)
- Useless Things (Faisal Lutchmedial)
- (Rock The) Belz (Kaveh Nabatian)
- Desolación (Mariano Franco)
- Somnia 5, Fluo (Étienne de Massy)
- The Greater The Weight (Marlene Millar)
- Les camions thibault (Benoit Thomassin)
- Cantame (Irene Boleda)

Mirador (with Pascale Bussières)
Musée Eden (Mariloup Wolfe)
Eyesteelfilm, une contribution exceptionnelle au cinema québécois 2009 (Daniel Cross)

For more about the festival, visit the RVCQ website.

[Photo from the film Edge of the Desert]

Posted on February 17, 2010