Les films de Mélanie Carrier & Olivier Higgins
Olivier Higgins and Mélanie Carrier are film directors and producers from Quebec, Canada. Biologists by training, they discovered video production by documenting their adventures around the world. Awarded many times and widely distributed internationally, their work is devoted to documentary films focused on issues related to identity, social fabric, territory and social justice. Their first film, Asiemut, tells the story of their 8,000 km bicycle journey in Asia. It won 36 awards in addition to being distributed in 40 countries. Then, with Encounters and Québékoisie, they question the complex relationship between Quebecers and First Nations people. These films received many honours worldwide and Québékoisie has been translated into twenty languages. After holding more than 400 film conferences in Quebec, Europe and the United States, they dedicated themselves to the creation of Wandering, a Rohingya Story, their latest documentary about the Rohingya refugee crisis. Parallel to this project, they also designed and produced a multidisciplinary exhibition on display at the Quebec National Museum of Fine Arts.
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Encounters
« The scale of a journey is measured through what you get out of it » Quebec, Canada. At the summer solstice, a group of young Aboriginals from the Innu and Huron nations and young Quebecers travels the Jesuits’ ancestral trail, 310 km of land and water which links Lac Saint-Jean and Quebec City. Some embark on this journey to follow their ancestors’ trail, others for a unique experience with...
Asiemut
Everyone has their own journey, their own direction, their own azimuth. Olivier Higgins and Mélanie Carrier chose a journey, but most would call it a long adventure, approximately 8000 kilometers long. Riding their bicycles and pedaling through Asia, from Mongolia to Kolkata, at the mouth of the Ganges in India, passing through Xinjiang, the Taklamakan Desert, Tibet and Nepal.
Québékoisie
Mélanie and Olivier decided to cycle the North Shore of Quebec, Canada, to better understand the complex relationships that exist between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people. This quest for identity would push them to travel deep inside themselves and to faraway lands. Their encounters, both planned and spontaneous, include the surprising tale of an Innu man in search of his ancestors in Norma...
Encounters
« The scale of a journey is measured through what you get out of it » Quebec, Canada. At the summer solstice, a group of young Aboriginals from the Innu and Huron nations and young Quebecers travels the Jesuits’ ancestral trail, 310 km of land and water which links Lac Saint-Jean and Quebec City. Some embark on this journey to follow their ancestors’ trail, others for a unique experience with...
Asiemut
Everyone has their own journey, their own direction, their own azimuth. Olivier Higgins and Mélanie Carrier chose a journey, but most would call it a long adventure, approximately 8000 kilometers long. Riding their bicycles and pedaling through Asia, from Mongolia to Kolkata, at the mouth of the Ganges in India, passing through Xinjiang, the Taklamakan Desert, Tibet and Nepal.
Québékoisie
Mélanie and Olivier decided to cycle the North Shore of Quebec, Canada, to better understand the complex relationships that exist between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people. This quest for identity would push them to travel deep inside themselves and to faraway lands. Their encounters, both planned and spontaneous, include the surprising tale of an Innu man in search of his ancestors in Norma...
