Les Percéides Festival in Percé, Gaspésie will be presenting some of the region’s works for the fourth time next week at the Cinema on the Bayou Festival in Lafayette, Louisiana.
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The films “The Courier of the Woods and the Nutshimiu-Innu” by Éli Laliberté, “100 Miles” by Louis Bodart, “Constellations I-II-III” by Éric Proulx, Kellie Nadeau and Claudie Simard, “On another frequency” by Chloé Gayraud, Maïté Samuel-Leduc’s “Immensité” and Lucile Parry-Canet’s “Unempty Space” will be screened in American premieres during the event.
“The Festival Cinema on the Bayou is the world’s largest showcase of French-language cinema. It is an event that allows us to meet people that we could not do elsewhere, ”said the General and Artistic Director of Les Percéides Festival, François Cormier, to the agency QMI.
Photo from the Les Percéides Festival Facebook page
By presenting himself there, Mr. Cormier wants, among other things, to launch a cinematic exchange project between Louisiana and Gaspésie. “We want to make it possible for filmmakers from Louisiana to come to Percé to make films with a Gaspé director and vice versa,” he explained.
A new life for his project
When Maïté Samuel-Leduc found out that her short film had been selected, she was pleasantly surprised. “It’s the first time I’ve done a project like this and the fact that it’s shining outside of Quebec is great to have that visibility,” the content creator said of her account.
His film “Immensity”, a very short one minute and 10 second short film, shows the grandeur of the Gaspé landscape by following a lone skater.
“It’s an idea I had a few years ago. There are three Barachois in the region. (Editor’s note: a kind of small lagoon separated from the sea by a sand or gravel bar). You can skate there in the winter, but only for a very short time because of the rapid changes in the weather,” she said.
“But the year we shot it was exceptional because we could skate there all holiday season. I had seen a skater from Gaspé doing tricks a few years ago and I thought it would be extraordinary to be able to combine the two,” she added.
Seeing “her little production” going to Lafayette makes her happy, she who had no particular goal in making the film. “I didn’t see it at first, but presenting a very white backdrop against a colorful Louisiana landscape is pretty fun,” she shared.
- The Cinema on the Bayou Festival takes place from January 25th to February 1st.