Jennifer Alleyn
Jennifer Alleyn is an award-winning Canadian filmmaker, writer and photographer living in Montreal. Born in Switzerland in 1969, Alleyn obtained a degree in Film Production at Concordia University in 1991. She jumped right away into The Race Around the World (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) to shoot 26 documentaries within 26 weeks on 5 different continents, on her own. In the last ten years, she has been directing and producing independent films, switching from fiction to documentary, art house cinema and television: Cosmos (1997), winner of the CICEA award in Cannes, My Father’s Studio (2008), Best Canadian film at the FIFA; Ten times Dix (2011) which received the ARTV Springboard to the World Award. In 2018, she directed and produced her first feature, Impetus, a hybrid drama which blurs the frontier between fiction and cinema-vérité, for which she receives the Creation Award 2019 for her “outstanding contribution to the development of Québec cinema” from L’Observatoire du cinéma au Québec in collaboration with the Faculty of Arts and Sciences of the Université de Montréal.
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My Father's Studio
In November 2001, Quebec Painter Edmund Alleyn (1931-2004) agreed to be filmed in his Montreal studio by his daughter, filmmaker Jennifer Alleyn. There, something unexpected happened : an authentic encounter, with no beating around the bush, no mask. From a few existential questions –about life, painting, death- thruth emerged. The artist died of cancer in December 2004 before Jennifer could fi...
Impetus
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A filmmaker in the midst of a shoot in New York begins to question the origin of impulse. When her lead actor leaves the production, she must rely on ingenuity to see the project through. Moving between fiction and documentary, New York and Montreal, *Impetus* is a reflection on creation and reactivation. Blending poetic essay and autofiction, it is also a film about a film being built before o...
Impetus
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A filmmaker in the midst of a shoot in New York begins to question the origin of impulse. When her lead actor leaves the production, she must rely on ingenuity to see the project through. Moving between fiction and documentary, New York and Montreal, *Impetus* is a reflection on creation and movement. Blending poetic essay and autofiction, it is also a film about a film being built before our e...
My Father's Studio
In November 2001, Quebec Painter Edmund Alleyn (1931-2004) agreed to be filmed in his Montreal studio by his daughter, filmmaker Jennifer Alleyn. There, something unexpected happened : an authentic encounter, with no beating around the bush, no mask. From a few existential questions –about life, painting, death- thruth emerged. The artist died of cancer in December 2004 before Jennifer could fi...
My Father's Studio
In November 2001, Quebec Painter Edmund Alleyn (1931-2004) agreed to be filmed in his Montreal studio by his daughter, filmmaker Jennifer Alleyn. There, something unexpected happened : an authentic encounter, with no beating around the bush, no mask. From a few existential questions –about life, painting, death- thruth emerged. The artist died of cancer in December 2004 before Jennifer could fi...
Impetus
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A filmmaker in the midst of a shoot in New York begins to question the origin of impulse. When her lead actor leaves the production, she must rely on ingenuity to see the project through. Moving between fiction and documentary, New York and Montreal, *Impetus* is a reflection on creation and reactivation. Blending poetic essay and autofiction, it is also a film about a film being built before o...
Impetus
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A filmmaker in the midst of a shoot in New York begins to question the origin of impulse. When her lead actor leaves the production, she must rely on ingenuity to see the project through. Moving between fiction and documentary, New York and Montreal, *Impetus* is a reflection on creation and movement. Blending poetic essay and autofiction, it is also a film about a film being built before our e...
My Father's Studio
In November 2001, Quebec Painter Edmund Alleyn (1931-2004) agreed to be filmed in his Montreal studio by his daughter, filmmaker Jennifer Alleyn. There, something unexpected happened : an authentic encounter, with no beating around the bush, no mask. From a few existential questions –about life, painting, death- thruth emerged. The artist died of cancer in December 2004 before Jennifer could fi...
