Fabulous
The Tënk platform, in partnership with the Centre Art et Essai de la Cinémathèque québécoise and the Consulate General of France in Quebec City, is pleased to unveil a new series of screenings: Conversations françaises. Every last Friday of the month, discover the great voices of contemporary French documentary cinema. Each screening will be followed by a virtual discussion with the filmmaker. A unique opportunity to meet today's great French documentary filmmakers!
The mission of the Centre d'art et essai de la Cinémathèque québécoise (CAECQ) is to primary program Quebec-made documentaries and independent fiction, as well as international documentaries, animated and foreign films, while encouraging opportunities for meetings between the public and the artists. Its programming is presented in conjunction with the Cinémathèque québécoise’s under the label New releases.
Invented in the underground clubs of New York in the 80s, voguing has allowed the black, Latino and LGBT+ communities to assert themselves and face the outside world. Lasseindra Ninja is today a major icon of this dance. After 10 years of absence, she returns to her native land, Guyana, to train young dancers. By transmitting to them a state of mind and an attitude based on self-assertion, she gives them the tools to resist the hostility of the world around them. A dance that sounds the hour of revolt.
Audrey Jean-Baptiste
After studying anthropology and earning a master's degree in documentary filmmaking, Audrey Jean-Baptiste has been working for ten years as an assistant director for television and film. At the same time, she has been directing self-produced films, training herself in screenwriting and participating in several writing residencies. She directed her first documentary, Fabulous, produced by Six Onze Films. She is currently preparing the shooting of the short film Les cœurs battants produced by Les Films Grand Huit.
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