Ray Gunn
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.
In Metropia, a gigantic city in an alternate future as seen from 1939, private eye Raymond Gunn is drawn into a case involving aliens, murder, and a multimedia star named Venus Nova.
Brad Bird
Brad Bird is an American filmmaker, animator, and screenwriter. He developed an interest in the art of animation early on, and completed his first short subject by age 14. Bird sent the film to Walt Disney Productions, leading to an apprenticeship from the studio's Nine Old Men. He attended the California Institute of the Arts in the late 1970s, and worked for Disney shortly thereafter. In the 1980s, he worked in film development with various studios. He co-wrote Batteries Not Included (1987), and developed two episodes of Amazing Stories for Steven Spielberg. Afterwards, he joined The Simpsons as creative consultant for eight seasons. In 1999, he directed his first animated film The Iron Giant. He then moved to Pixar where he wrote and directed two successful animated films: The Incredibles (2004) and Ratatouille (2007). They earned him two Academy Awards for Best Animated Feature. He transitioned to live-action filmmaking with similarly successful Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011), and Disney's Tomorrowland (2015). He returned to Pixar to develop Incredibles 2 (2018). Bird has a reputation for supervising his projects to a high degree of detail. Brad Bird advocates for creative freedom and the possibilities of animation, and has criticized its stereotype as children's entertainment, or classification as a genre, rather than an art.
