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Kim-Sanh Châu is a Vietnamese-French contemporary dance artist based in Tio’tia:ke (Montreal). Her dance practice takes the form of choreographic and video installations; focusing on the emergence of imaginary landscapes through the body; distilled from distant dreams, buried memories and psychotropic reminiscences. Her work has been presented at MAI, l’Arsenal, Tangente, and through several international festivals, including SIDance (Korea) and Krossing-Over (Vietnam). In her video work, Châu is interested in contemplative composition, highlighting the body in motion. Her approach is technical yet radically spare. Her work has been shown at several festivals, most recently the Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois. She regularly works for other artists, the most recent being George Stamos, Kimura Byol and Catherine Lavoie-Marcus. (Photo: Kinga Michalska)

Services offered — coaching, advising or mentoring in :

_ screendance theory
_ pre-production
_ roles and relationships within the team
_ directing
_ movement with the camera
_ choreographic editing
_ post-production

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Marlene Millar is a filmmaker (writer, director, editor, producer and mentor) who has created dance films, documentaries and experimental media productions for over 30 years. In 2019, her career was honoured at a retrospective exhibit at Threshold Artspace, Perth, UK, premiering her installation WITNESS that captures metaphoric histories with docu-fiction resonances. The process-driven continuum of the MIGRATION DANCE FILM PROJECT directed by Millar comes to life as she transposes Sandy Silva’s choreography to the screen, revealing the intricacies of issue-driven, performative stories. The films have garnered over 30 awards and prizes internationally. Since 2000, Marlene has co-created an acclaimed collection of dance media work with Philip Szporer through their company, Mouvement Perpétuel. A prolific educator and mentor, Millar has taught filmmaking across continents at institutes such as Centre Imagine (Burkina Faso), Malakta (Finland), Impulstanz (Vienna) and throughout the Canadian Arctic. (Photo: Marites Carino)

Services offered — coaching, advising or mentoring in :

_ pre-production
_ screenwriting
_ roles and relationships within the team
_ directing
_ movement with the camera
_ choreographic editing
_ post-production
_ contracts and rights (basic)
_ distribution, presenters and festivals

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Sonya Stefan is a media and dance artist from Canada who incorporates glitchy analog techniques such as 16mm and VHS, feedbacking light refractions, and dance film in her work. Sonya received two awards for her work titled The Truss Arch: the 2021 Best National Medium-Length Film award at the Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM) and the 2022 Best Experimental Film award at Les Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma. Her film was nominated for Best Short Documentary at the 2022 Iris Awards and screened at the prestigious Ann Arbor Film Festival. During her residency with ArtlabPro in Argentina, Sonya collaborated with sound artist Lain-9 to debut a new work titled IK Pegasi, which was created over the course of a month using Touch Designer. She has collaborated with the multimedia dance company Animals of Distinction and the experimental music act Group A from Berlin, consisting of Tommi Tokyo and Sayaka Botanic. Sonya Stefan is currently in the research phase for a new dance documentary “The Feeling Behind” which focuses on the 25 years of Newton Moraes Dance Theatre. In partnership with artist Stephanie Castonguay, their collective “Technologies of Consciousness” was the first ever artist-in-residence at Biosphere Montreal researching bioplastics for a new work “The Intimacy of Strangers”. (Photo: Sonya Stefan)

Services offered — coaching, advising or mentoring in :

_ pre-production
_ roles and relationships within a small film crew
_ directing
_ movement with the camera
_ choreographic editing
_ editing (introduction to Adobe Premiere Pro)
_ cameraless filmmaking technique – drawing on film
_ introduction to 16mm shooting
_ DIY development methods
_ post production
_ introduction to grants program
_ distribution, presenters and festivals

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Claudia Chan Tak is a multidisciplinary artist trained in visual arts (Concordia, bachelor’s degree 2009) and contemporary dance (UQAM, bachelor’s degree 2012 and master’s degree 2017). Her first short film La Buvette des carnivores received the Cinémathèque québécoise prize for best direction at the Quartiers Danses Festival in 2015, while Norma, produced in 2016, was part of the official selection of FIFA. As a visual artist, she is programmed at the Festival TransAmériques (FTA) in the summer of 2016 to present at Place des Arts her very first solo exhibition entitled Hydra, which archives with poetry and originality intergenerational choreographic creative processes through photographs, videos and drawings. To underline the quality of her work, she received the William Douglas University Prize in 2015, then in 2018 the prestigious Patrons of the Arts prize to highlight the artistic innovation of a project that continues the search for her memory-creation around the links between documentary film, cultural identity and contemporary dance. For the past few years, she has been offering screendance workshops to teenagers and emerging artists. (Photo: Julie Artacho)

Services offered — coaching, advising or mentoring in :

_ pre-production
_ preparing a presentation document and a pitch
_ screenwriting
_ roles and relationships within the team
_ directing
_ teaser
_ archiving
_ movement with the camera
_ live arts video projection
_ post-production (editing with Final Cut Pro)
_ screendance workshops with teenagers and dance students

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Priscilla Guy is a performer, choreographer, filmmaker, curator and researcher in the arts based in Marsoui (Canada). She presents her scenic creations, site specific performances and screendance works on a local and international scale. In 2012, with filmmaker and journalist Claudia Hébert, she cofounded Regards Hybrides, now a world-wide reference in screendance through its online platform, its international biennale and several screenings every year. Her academic research is published regularly, notably with The International Journal of Screendance and The Oxford Handbook of Screendance Studies. She holds a PhD in feminist screendance from the University of Lille (France), and is currently working on several international screendance publications projects, notably with Routledge, les presses du réel and PUM (Presses de l’Université de Montréal).

Services offered — coaching, advising or mentoring in :

_ screendance history
_ screendance theory
_ pre-production
_ screenwriting
_ roles and relationships within the team
_ directing
_ movement with the camera
_ choreographic editing
_ post-production
_ contracts and rights
_ distribution, presenters and festivals

+ Contact us to work with Priscilla Guy