Rodrigue Jean
Dance, theatre, film: director, scriptwriter and producer Rodrigue Jean has been active on numerous creative fronts. After studies in biology, sociology and literature, he worked as a choreographer before making his first short film, La déroute, in 1989. He followed this up with the documentary La voix des rivières and the short film La mémoire de l’eau, both prizewinners. Two popular and critically acclaimed dramatic features came next: Full Blast and Yellowknife. The documentary Living on the Edge (2005) paid tribute to his Acadian roots, focusing on the poetry of Gérald Leblanc. His 2007 documentary _Men for Sal_e looked at male prostitution in Montréal. Lost Song, his third feature-length fiction, garnered Jean the award for Best Canadian Feature at the 2008 TIFF. Following Men for Sale, Jean launched Épopée, a group that has used cinema as an instrument of freedom and community. Projects to date include the feature-length films The State of the Moment, The State of the World and Insurgence as well as the website epopee.me. His most recent feature-length film, Love in the Time of Civil War (2014), resulted from Épopée’s writing workshops with sex-trade workers.
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La voix des rivières
Rodrigue Jean gives voice to people who have nearly drowned. The story of their disaster and the lessons they have drawn from it make us think that life is born of water and flows somewhat like a river. We are born in a state something like a spring. This spring becomes a stream, we travel through forests, winding our way around obstacles to finally arrive at the river where our water merges wi...
La voix des rivières
Rodrigue Jean gives voice to people who have nearly drowned. The story of their disaster and the lessons they have drawn from it make us think that life is born of water and flows somewhat like a river. We are born in a state something like a spring. This spring becomes a stream, we travel through forests, winding our way around obstacles to finally arrive at the river where our water merges wi...
