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FAMILY GAME earn 8 nominations at the Quebec Cinema Awards!

The crime family drama will be competing for the Iris Arwards in the following categories: Best Feature, Best Direction, Best Screenplay, Best Leading Actor, Best Sound Design, Best Editing, Best Original Musical Score and Best Casting Direction. Congratulations to Rafaël Ouellet and his team!

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Ce qui hante Marlène awarded at Nouveau Cinema

Writer-director Camille Trudel and producer Stéphanie Morissette of La maison de prod won the First Feature Project Pitch at the Nouveau Marché of the Montreal New Cinema Festival. The award comes with a $10,000 grant presented by NETFLIX in collaboration with Eurimages.

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Edith Jorisch's new non-fiction feature project among SODEC's latest funding round

Feature documentary project Go and Don't Ever Look Back from rising talent Edith Jorisch (The Heir, Tibbits Hill) and The Ravenous producers, has secured development funding from SODEC.

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ARSENAULT & FILS now in theatres

Arsenault & Fils by director Rafaël Ouellet is now in some sixty theaters across Quebec. The crime family drama starring Guillaume Cyr and Karine Vanassae is distributed by Sphère Films.

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SODEC greenlights the development of Cobalt

La maison de prod got development funding from SODEC to support screenwriters Dominique Leclerc and Sarah Berthiaume for penning the utopian lo-fi/sci-fi drama COBALT.

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Arsenault & Fils now in production

Rafael Ouellet (Gurov & Anna) is filming his 5th feature, crime family drama Arsenault & Fils, in Quebec this Spring. The film stars Guillaume Cyr (Netflix' The Decline) and Karine Vanasse from TV hit series Cardinal. Mk2 Mile-End will distribute the movie in Canada. WaZAbi Film is handling international sales.

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La maison de prod's first XR project goes to IDFA

The prototype of the Canada-Denmark-Greenland mixed reality project Thunder and Drum will be featured next November as part of the IDFA DocLab Forum 2020 official selection.

Rafael Ouellet's new crime family drama starts preproduction

Rafael Ouellet's Arsenault & Sons is now prepping in Montreal and Temiscouata following the funding confirmation from SODEC and Telefilm Canada. MK2 Mile-End will be distributing the follow-up feature from the Gurov & Anna director in Canada in 2022.

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Natasha Kanapé Fontaine gets Mentorship Grant from SARTEC

La maison de prod is proud of Natasha Kanapé Fontaine's selection among four up-and-coming Quebec-based screenwriters from underrepresented communities that will benefit from SARTEC and Radio-Canada's Diversity Mentorship program during the development stage of HOMO Sapienne's feature film adaptation.

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The inaugural ÉNH-Netflix Fund supports François Bernier and LMDP's new comedy

Earth to ISS, the first feature comedy penned by François Bernier (Les Parent), is among the inaugural cohort of comedy projects that has secured development funding from the joint National Comedy School-Netflix Fund.

Natasha Kanapé Fontaine to adapt Greenland literary phenomenon HOMO SAPIENNE

La maison de prod has optioned Niviaq Korneliussen's landmark debut novel HOMO Sapienne (milk publishing) to develop a feature film penned by Innu artist Natasha Kanapé Fontaine. The project, a CA/DE/GL co-production with Anorak Films and PaniNoir, got development support from SODEC.

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François Blouin's upcoming surreal comedy hits Frontières

Ubisoft, Moment Factory and Felix & Paul Studios director François Blouin will be pitching his new feature project A Moment of Pure Joy at the Frontières Coproduction Market in Montreal. Stephanie Morissette and C.S. Roy (Les Affamés) are producing.

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THE RAVENOUS named Film of the Year at the Quebec Cinema Awards

Arthouse zombie horror Les Affamés won 8 Iris Awards, a first in 20 years for a genre film at the Quebec Cinema Gala, in the following catagories: Best Film, Direction, Supporting Actress, Soundtrack, Sound, VFX, Makeup, and Film that was the most acclaimed outside Quebec. Congrats to all talents and crew!

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LMDP talks zombies and fan engagement at the 2018 AQPM Conference

Producer C.S. Roy presented a case study about the impact of fan community development and management on the development and promotion of award-winning arthouse zombie film LES AFFAMÉS at the 20th Quebec Media Producers Conference in Gatineau.

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LES AFFAMÉS coming to Spanish theatres

Distributor La Aventura is releasing "Los Hambrientos" (Les Affamés) in selected Spanish theatres on Friday the 13th in April. The movie played at several Spanish film festivals such as Sitges and Nocturna Madrid, where it won the Best VFX Award.

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Newsweek names THE RAVENOUS "the Best Zombie Horror Film of the Decade"

Robin Aubert's The Ravenous (Les Affamés) has been hailed as the Best Zombie Horror Film of the Decade by Newsweek. "An undead romp so inventive and heartfelt that it might raise the genre from the grave."(read)

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THE RAVENOUS awarded at the Canadian Screen Awards

Congratulations to Erik Gosselin and Marie France Guy, who won the Achievement in Make-up Canadian Screen Award for their contribution to Robin Aubert's The Ravenous (Les Affamés).

THE RAVENOUS takes Fantasporto's top awards

La maison de prod's The Ravenous won the Fantasporto's Grand Prix, while Robin Aubert won the Best Directing award for the second time, 12 years after his first feature St. Martyrs of the Damned has been screened in competition at the Portuguese festival.

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AQCC names THE RAVENOUS the Best Quebecois Feature Film of 2017

AQCC, Quebec's Film Critics Association, named Robin Aubert's The Ravenous as the 2017 Best Quebecois Feature Film during the 2018 RVQC Awards Night.

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