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This weekend, The Snowball Treasury was honoured by the Mirror Mountain Film Festival with the Best Director Award. Thank you Mirror Mountain friends!

Excited to be working on a new project about the inspiring Montreal Women’s Symphony Orchestra founded in 1940 by a tour-de-force named Ethel Stark. The project is commissioned by the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec and Place des arts which will take the shape of a 35 (!) channel installation tailored to the Espace Georges-Émile-Lapalme.  Coming Fall 2019.

Big respect for the more than 60 women involved in making this video for Amanda Palmer and Jasmine Power’s “Mr. Weinstein Will See You Now.” Released today on the 1 year anniversary of the #MeToo movement.

Director Noémie Lafrance. Editor: Kara Blake

Montreal’s MUTEK festival has programmed a wonderful lineup of presentations about creation, process and artistic practice. Philtre Films presents ‘Delia’s Dream’ about the life and work of electronic music pioneer Delia Derbyshire, including musical samples, rare archives and extracts from the documentary The Delian Mode.  August 23, 13h at Monument-National.

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Following the initiative taken by the Manchester-based organization Delia Derbyshire Day – devoting May 5th as a day to celebrate Delia Derbyshire –Everyday Ago and the Concordia University Department of Music are proud to present the first Montréal based event to advance the legacy and art of this beloved artist.  A screening of The Delian Mode and conversation between director Kara Blake and ArtSpeaks kicks off an exciting evening of AV diversions.

Just a couple of weeks left to see the MAC’s exhibition Leonard Cohen: Une brèche en toute chose / A Crack in Everything.  It’s been wonderful to be part of this beautiful tribute to one of the great creative thinkers of our time.  Stay tuned for tour details…

Les lettres de ma mère is filmmaker Serge Giguère’s poignant documentary tribute to his mother, a charismatic and powerful pillar of a working-class Québec family of 16 children.  I had the pleasure of collaborating with Serge to bring some of his wonderful family photos to life onscreen.

Opening today at Cinéma Beaubien in Montreal.

View the trailer here.

An inspiring double bill this week at the Royal Cinema in Toronto celebrating two ingenious women of early electronic music:  Suzanne Ciani and Delia Derbyshire.  Don’t miss it!

Amazing poster by Jenn Woodall

Years in the making, the exhibition Leonard Cohen: Une brèche en toute chose / A Crack in Everything opens this week at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal.  I’m honoured to be amongst an incredible lineup of artists and musicians contributing works inspired by and in celebration of the inimitable Leonard Cohen.  Great overview of the show here in The Guardian.