Sylvie Lapointe
Sylvie Lapointe pratique le métier de cinéaste depuis 1995. Elle réalise et produit des documentaires au Québec (Vue de ruelle 2017 & 2018, etc.), au Mexique (Polvo, 2020, Simplement, una despedida, 2017 et La leçon de l’escargot, 2012 incursion dans les communautés autonomes du Chiapas) et au Guatemala (Yanina, guérillera ou coopérante?, 2001). De plus, elle collabore à une cinquantaine de projets auprès d’autres cinéastes à titre de recherchiste, directrice de production / assistante à la réalisation. En 2021, elle entreprend une maîtrise en anthropologie à l’Université de Montréal où elle étudie notamment les courants décolonisateurs et les approches d’écologisation de nos rapports au(x) monde(s) afin de les agencer éventuellement à une écriture filmique sensible.
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Utuqaq
A poem from the frozen plains of Greenland blends with the technological prose of a polar expedition. The endless white space, folded by ice, remembers the millions of years of evolution and decades of our negative effect on the planet. Crude and bewitchingly beautiful Arctic as a place of magic blending of languages, traditions, sounds and worlds.
I Am Berta
On March 2, 2016, Lenca environmental activist Berta Cáceres was murdered. She was shot at close range after denouncing those who wanted to see her dead. In the world's most dangerous country for environmentalists, tenacious Honduran journalist Milton Benítez follows the clues he and Berta noted at a meeting held the day before her murder. With the help of Almudena Bernabeu, a renowned internat...
Breakpoint: A Counter History of Progress
Breakpoint: A Counter History of Progress
Duration: 3h18With around 1400 billion tons of carbon dioxide trapped in the lower atmosphere and the invention of napalm, pesticides, and radioactivity, man has irrevocably changed Earth. Using extensive archival footage, this documentary tracks how man has exploited the planet for his own gain and to the detriment of the natural world, over the last two centuries.
Utuqaq
A poem from the frozen plains of Greenland blends with the technological prose of a polar expedition. The endless white space, folded by ice, remembers the millions of years of evolution and decades of our negative effect on the planet. Crude and bewitchingly beautiful Arctic as a place of magic blending of languages, traditions, sounds and worlds.
I Am Berta
On March 2, 2016, Lenca environmental activist Berta Cáceres was murdered. She was shot at close range after denouncing those who wanted to see her dead. In the world's most dangerous country for environmentalists, tenacious Honduran journalist Milton Benítez follows the clues he and Berta noted at a meeting held the day before her murder. With the help of Almudena Bernabeu, a renowned internat...
Breakpoint: A Counter History of Progress
Breakpoint: A Counter History of Progress
Duration: 3h18With around 1400 billion tons of carbon dioxide trapped in the lower atmosphere and the invention of napalm, pesticides, and radioactivity, man has irrevocably changed Earth. Using extensive archival footage, this documentary tracks how man has exploited the planet for his own gain and to the detriment of the natural world, over the last two centuries.
