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Nov 11 , 2011 - Le Devoir.com
Un mur aux RIDM
by MARTIN BILODEAU
Quand un film est-il achevé? Dans la grande majorité des cas, lorsque son intrigue est résolue. Ou que la boucle de l'histoire qu'il raconte est bouclée. Il arrive cependant que certaines intrigues s'enfoncent dans l'impasse. Mais l'impasse d'une histoire peut être en soi un dénouement. Je pense à Zodiac, de David Fincher, sur la traque inaboutie d'un tueur en série à San Francisco, ou encore à La belle noiseuse, de Jacques Rivette, dans lequel la toile du peintre (Michel Piccoli), demeurée inachevée, échappait à son modèle (Emmanuelle Béart) tout autant qu'aux spectateurs...
April 2011 - Profile / Point of View Magazine
Bunbury Films producer Frederic Bohbot on the documentaries that inspire him and the government policies that don't
by MATTHEW HAYS
As Frederic Bohbot tells it, his beginnings in documentary filmmaking were awfully strange. It was 1997, and Bohbot, then doing a communication studies degree at Concordia University, was enrolled in an international relations class taught by Adalbert Lallier. Bohbot didn’t know it at the time, but Lallier had served in the Waffen-SS , the elite Nazi police force, during WWII . Lallier chose to confess his wartime activity during one of the classes, and asked the students to vote on whether or not he should continue to teach them, given their knowledge of his troubled past. Bohbot was haunted by Lallier’s past actions and, finding himself in the midst of a controversial scandal, decided to turn the story into a doc - Bohbot’s production house, Bunbury Films, has morphed into one of the busiest documentary think tanks in Quebec...
April 2011 - Profile / LVS - JMAG
Bunbury Films : Informer pour réagir, et Provoquer pour faire agir
by LAETITIA SELLAM
La réalisation de documentaires nécessite de toujours saisir le vif du sujet et d'anticiper l'action des protagonistes ainsi que leurs émotions spontanées ...
Feb 17 , 2011 - The Gazette
The documentary filmmakers at Bunbury pick their fights and win
by BILL BROWNSTEIN
Their names might not yet resonate like a Scorsese or Spielberg, but Frederic Bohbot and Evan Beloff appear to be on their way to becoming moguls in Quebec -documentary division. Their production company, Bunbury Films, has an impressive three films at the Rendez-vous du cinema quebecois: Burning Water (tonight), Land of Destiny (tomorrow) and Underdog Plaza (Saturday).
Whereas Burning Water and Land of Destiny have already made their debuts, Saturday will mark the world premiere of Underdog Plaza, a revealing look at the turbulent life and career of up-and-coming boxer Dierry (Dougy-Style) Jean.
Produced by Bohbot and written and directed by Beloff, Underdog Plaza seems to be quite the departure for this tandem. Then again, all their company docs tend to be departures from one another: The Legend of Memphre, about a mythical monster moored in Lake Memphremagog; Once a Nazi, about a former Concordia professor coming clean about his Nazi past; and Leaving the Fold, directed by Eric Scott, about two brothers bolting from Montreal's tight-knit Hasidic community. ...
16 Fév, 2011 - etalk (CTV)
TV INTERVIEW
Evan Beloff is interviews about his latest documentary film UNDERDOG PLAZA...
Jan 06, 2011 - Montreal Mirror
Packing a punch -
Filmmaker Evan Beloff on entering the world of the Montreal boxing scene for his doc Underdog Plaza
by MATTHEW HAYS
As a boxing fan, filmmaker Evan Beloff says he learned that Montreal was becoming a boxing capital of sorts. “A number of boxers who were doing well had come out of the city,” he recalls noticing. At first, Beloff thought he might explore the entire boxing milieu in a documentary film. But then he was struck by how fascinating one boxer’s story was, after learning of Dierry Jean...
July 05, 2011 - The Observer
Valley workers are loyal - Documentary reveals local employees protective of industry
by CATHY DOBSON
When Brett Story came to Sarnia for the first time, she was surprised by the work ethic and strong company loyalty of tradespeople employed in Chemical Valley.
"I've seen the films where they denounce the petrochemical industry and repeat the stories of its victims, but I don't find that terribly interesting," says the 32-year-old filmmaker. "I wanted to do something different."
She was drawn to Sarnia by a Globe and Mail article that highlighted the ravages of mesothelioma in the community. Though the article was compelling, Story felt there must be more to it.
So in 2006, while living in Montreal, she jumped on a train to Sarnia to see if she could peel back the layers.
"What surprised me was that people are going to funerals every weekend but they don't seem angry. They didn't express a desire to face off with these industries," she said....
Jan 06, 2011 - Montreal Mirror
Packing a punch -
Filmmaker Evan Beloff on entering the world of the Montreal boxing scene for his doc Underdog Plaza
by MATTHEW HAYS
As a boxing fan, filmmaker Evan Beloff says he learned that Montreal was becoming a boxing capital of sorts. “A number of boxers who were doing well had come out of the city,” he recalls noticing. At first, Beloff thought he might explore the entire boxing milieu in a documentary film. But then he was struck by how fascinating one boxer’s story was, after learning of Dierry Jean...
Oct 3, 2010 - Pieuvre.ca
Burning Water – Gaz de schiste à l’albertaine
by HUGO PRÉVOST
Si le dossier des gaz de schiste est relativement nouveau au Québec – avec les tensions et les développements qu’on lui connaît -, il en est tout autrement en Alberta, où les entreprises sont déjà à l’oeuvre pour extraire la précieuse ressource du sol qui l’abrite. C’est cette réalité pas toujours rose qu’explorent Cameron Esler et Tadzio Richards dans le documentaire Burning Water, à travers le témoignage d’un couple habitant près de la ville de Rosebud, en Alberta...
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