Festival du Nouveau Cinéma

Awards & Juries

Louve d’Or - Quebecor, International Selection (15 000$ in cash)
Best first, second or third feature film in the International Selection (Competition)

Best Acting Award
Best actor in a feature film in the International Selection (Competition)

AQCC Award
Best feature in the International Selection

Focus - Cinémathèque Québécoise Grand Prize ($1,500 cash and $3,500 in services)
Best Short Film in the Focus Section
Best short film in the International Selection (Competition)

Focus Grand Prize – Short ($5000 cash from CTV's Bravo!FACT - Foundation to Assist Canadian Talent).
Best Canadian short film in the Focus section and International Selection (Competition).

Daniel Langlois Innovation Award
In order to highlight the exceptional contribution of Daniel Langlois to the development and longevity of the FNC, as well as his dedication to advancing the field of arts and culture, the Daniel Langlois Innovation Award recognizes a work in the International Selection that distinguishes itself for its aesthetic audacity, its creative use of new technologies and/or its groundbreaking treatment of a sensitive subject matter.

Juries

Cameron Bailey président du jury

Cameron Bailey is Co-Director of the Toronto International Film Festival. He has been a TIFF programmer for over 12 years and has curated fi lm series for Cinematheque Ontario, the National Gallery of Canada, the NFB and the Sydney International Film Festival. Bailey was a fi lm critic for NOW Magazine, CBC Radio One and CTV’s Canada AM, and also contributed to The Globe and Mail, The Village Voice and CineAction!. Former host of Showtime’s The Showcase Revue, he also hosted and produced IFC Canada’s Filmmaker.

Lucie Amyot

Lucie Amyot is a Montrealer and an economist trained as an art historian. She is active in the arts community including galleries, the Ontario Arts Council and TFO (Ontario’s French-language educational television broadcaster) where she was responsible for fi lm programming in 2001. She has lived in Toronto, Paris and Brussels, and attends arthouse fi lms and experimental fi lm theatre, fi lm clubs, cinematheques and festivals, all immensely valuable to her work. She is a Chevalier de l’Ordre des arts et des lettres.

Kim Massee

Kim Massee adores directing actors. In the 1990s, she began coaching a long list of actors that includes Jacques Weber, Solveig Dommartin, Julie Christie, Catherine Deneuve, Ruppert Everett and Nastasia Kinski. She made her fi rst independent short, Bouquet d’Amor, in 1990. She has worked on international projects with Raoul Ruiz, Luc Besson, Wim Wenders, Jim Jarmusch, Tom Decillo, Richard Hell, Vincent Ravalec and others. In 2000, she started Artworx Films to develop and shoot her own projects, where she directed and produced her debut feature, Cowboy Angels.

Mario Fortin

From his early role as assistant director of Cinéma Séville in 1973 to his current position as C.E.O. and General Manager of Cinéma Beaubien, Mario Fortin has had extensive experience in all facets of movie theatre management, as well as in the areas of fi lm distribution and production. He was the recipient of the fi rst Jutra award for “Best Exhibitor” in 2005 and was named “Personality of the Week” by La Presse and Radio-Canada in 2008.

Kim Nguyen

Writer and director Kim Nguyen’s fi rst feature, Le Marais (2002), was nominated for 6 Jutra awards, including Best Film and Best Director. A second feature, which he also produced, Truffe (2008), starring Céline Bonnier, Roy Dupuis, Pierre Lebeau and Danielle Proulx, was selected to open the Fantasia (Montreal 2008) and won the award for Best Film at Karlovy Vary’s FRESH Film Fest. La Cité, Nguyen’s third feature starring Jean-Marc Barr, Claude Legault and Pierre Lebeau, will open in theatres in winter, 2010.

Mathieu Li-Goyette

A writer-editor with Panorama-cinéma since February 2008, Mathieu Li-Goyette is completing an undergraduate degree in fi lm studies and comparative literature at the Université de Montréal. He is a keen cinephile with specifi c interests in East Asian cinema, the emergence of national cinemas and intermedia (fi lm, comic strips, video games). He writes on contemporary fi lm as well as fi lm history, and is working on a critical retrospective on post-war Japanese humanism, the Kurdish diaspora, and the legacy of the Czech New Wave.

Jorge Gutman

A movie lover interested in the arts generally, Jorge Gutman trained in fi lm with the late great Argentinian director Leopoldo Torre Nilsson. Very early on, he became a fi lm critic in his native country. After moving to Quebec in 1976, he wrote for El Popular and did reviews for Latin Time on CKUT 90.3 FM. He is active in the Quebec fi lm critics association (AQCC) and has sat on FIPRESCI juries at local and international festivals including the Festival des fi lms du monde and the Cannes Festival.

Claire Valade

Claire Valade has been a reviewer at Séquences magazine for more than 10 years and a cultural worker in Montreal for 20. Between 1992 and 2002, she worked on several fi lm festivals doing programming and publications, including at the FNC where in 2002 she initiated the tribute to Dennis Potter. She makes her living as a copy editor and translator, and also writes and makes fi lms (5 prismes in 2003, chez nous in 2005). She is currently working on new projects.

Yuri Berger

Born in Lima, Peru, Yuri Berger studied economics in Hungary before turning to the cinema and settling in Montreal in 1994. He attended Concordia University, where he obtained a degree in Fine Arts. He was the programming director for Festivalissimo ‘09 and associate producer of the most recent edition of the Just for Laughs Film Festival. He is currently programming special projects for the Parc Cinema and working on his first feature film.

Pape Boye

Pape Boye and his associates created the world sales agency Funny Balloons handling, in particular, the fi rst fi lms of Benoit Delépinne and Gustave Kervern, Aaltra by Fernando Eimbcke, Temporada de Patos and Calvaire by Fabrice du Welz. At the end of 2006, he set up Coach 14 with his Spanish partner and friend Jaume Domenech. Their company works with established fi lmmakers such as Claude Miller, Alain Resnais and most recently Emilio Esteves while continuing to discover new talent.

Aleen Stein

Ms. Stein is a founding partner and principal shareholder of the Criterion Collection, and CEO and Publisher of Organa L.L.C., a new media publishing company publishing DVDs and other media. She was also a founding partner and has been President of Voyager, a publisher of interactive laserdiscs and software since 1984. Ms. Stein and her partners built Voyager into one of the most respected international digital publishers. Its Criterion Collection has become known as the “Rolls Royce” of home video. This world-renowned and critically acclaimed collection of important fi lms with interactive “making-of” supplements has been credited with inventing the “added value” home video market.

Lydia Champagne

Professional drummer Lydia Champagne graduated in music from the University of Montreal in 2004. Her inventive, edgy playing became the basis for the duo Terracine and she now collaborates with Navet Confit, Sunny Duval, Mad June, Kim Bingham, Léopold Z and others. She has played the Montreal Jazz Festival, the Francofolies de Mtl, FME, and NXNE and has taught drumming and percussion since 1997. In 2008, Radio-Canada recognized her as a conductor and composer for her “Concerto for 6 bass drum, 29 cymbals and 21 drums”.

Éric Bachand

Artistic Director, Programmer, founder and henceforth indissociably identified wtih Saguenay’s International Festival of short film “Regard sur le court métrage”. He has been involved with film in several guises: as a scriptwriter, director, producer and production manager, as well as doing project development with the Artists in the Schools project. In tandem with his work in film and television, Éric Bachand is a video performance and installation artist who has exhibited in Quebec and Europe.

Dave St-Pierre

Dave St-Pierre started dancing at age five. He has worked with such eminent choreographers as Harold Rhéaume, Jean-Pierre Perrault, Estelle Clareton, Pierre-Paul Savoie and Alain Francoeur. As a choreographer, he made his mark in 2005 with La Pornographie des âmes, first in Montreal and then in Europe. In 2006, Un peu de tendresse bordel de merde had its world premiere in Munich, invited by Cornelia Albrecht of Festival Dance 2006. In the years since, the company has travelled across Europe to prestigious festivals including that of Pina Bausch in Düsseldorf. In July 2009, he performed the piece at the Avignon Festival.