{"id":63916,"date":"2022-04-25T08:00:45","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T12:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rdvcanada.ca\/?p=63916"},"modified":"2022-05-18T15:32:57","modified_gmt":"2022-05-18T19:32:57","slug":"generations-not-short-on-talent-at-cannes-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rdvcanada.ca\/en\/spotlight\/generations-not-short-on-talent-at-cannes-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Generations: Not Short on Talent at Cannes 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"63916\" class=\"elementor elementor-63916\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-1956160 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"1956160\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-bd44f3b\" data-id=\"bd44f3b\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e5c8f58 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"e5c8f58\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3><span class=\"TextRun SCXW114413030 BCX0\" lang=\"EN\" xml:lang=\"EN\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW114413030 BCX0\">More than a grouping of relative ages, a generation can be new growth, a wave of artists, or a branch of a family tree. This selection of seven Canadian shorts, the latest iteration of Telefilm Canada\u2019s Not Short on Talent (available through the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cannescourtmetrage.com\/en\/short-film-corner\/rendez-vousindustry\/sfc-market-1\">Short Film Library<\/a>), span these ideas and more.<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-ee26816 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"ee26816\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-dc5dc68\" data-id=\"dc5dc68\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cc96308 elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"cc96308\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-fd2979d elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"fd2979d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Parents talking with their adult children; young kids talking to their parents. Without meaning to, a common element began to emerge in the latest selection of Telefilm\u2019s Not Short on Talent programme: <strong>People \u2014 both kids and adults \u2014 featured in situations opposite an age group immediately next or previous to theirs.<\/strong><\/span><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p><p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">This generational interplay stood out to me, and as I considered it, so did the meaning of \u201cgeneration.\u201d A generation isn\u2019t just a grouping of relative ages. Rather, it\u2019s also the proliferation of new growth; it\u2019s the vague idea of a wave of artists. It\u2019s the branch of a family tree.<\/span><\/p><p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">In <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Adriana Marchand\u2019s<\/span><\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/rdvcanada.ca\/en\/product\/maundy\/\"><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Maundy<\/span><\/i><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> \u2014 a short that, given its sweet and summer-y vibe, reminds of ice-cold Slurpees \u2014\u00a0 a lost and drifting dry cleaning employee has an offbeat encounter with two cheeky boys, later meeting their mother through it all. Miffed, the boys attempt to take this wistful dry cleaner to trial, yet despite the odd and amusing events that follow, he gets to know them all a little better, finding meaning as he does.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Meanwhile, in <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Carol Nguyen\u2019s<\/span><\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/rdvcanada.ca\/en\/product\/nanitic\/\"><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Nanitic<\/span><\/i><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, two girls, Mai and Trang, spend an afternoon at their aunt Ut\u2019s house playing, eating candy, and tending to their pet ant (its container needs air holes, they decide; they sneak around to find a solution). Elsewhere in the house, Trang\u2019s grandmother is resting in her deathbed; carefully tending to her is Ut. As these beats \u2014 some honest, others very cute \u2014 unfold, this short (and its title, referring to the small size of certain worker ants) quietly resonates.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ac98a24 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"ac98a24\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/rdvcanada.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/elementor\/thumbs\/NSOT-Cannes-RDV-1-1-qfzyyvtil3p99p1lho2kiv4utolh2corepwyfnacxe.png\" title=\"NSOT &#8211; Cannes &#8211; RDV &#8211; 1\" alt=\"NSOT - Cannes - RDV - 1\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"widget-image-caption wp-caption-text\">From left to right: Adriana Marchand, Carol Nguyen, and Maxime Robin<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7c77cc4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"7c77cc4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rdvcanada.ca\/en\/product\/the-left-hand\/\"><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">The Left Hand<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"none\"> (<\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">La Main Gauche)<\/span><\/i><\/a> <span data-contrast=\"auto\">is <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Maxime Robin\u2019s<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> tour de force of gender identity and self-expression. Directing a scenario that features a dramatized version of his younger self \u2014 who was identified by his second grade teacher as \u201cnot normal\u201d \u2014 Robin revisits a classroom memory of his youth as an adult, belting out a remarkable rendition of Danielle Messia\u2019s 1982 song \u201cDe la main gauche\u201d (<\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201cJe n&#8217;ai jamais eu d&#8217;adresse \/ Rien qu&#8217;une fausse identit\u00e9\u201d<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">) to overwrite this past with his future.<\/span><\/p><p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">A similar autobiographical insertion happens in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/rdvcanada.ca\/en\/product\/underpaint\/\"><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Underpaint<\/span><\/i><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Anna Hopkins\u2019<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> homage to Tom Hopkins, a Canadian visual artist and Anna\u2019s late father. Writing and directing a version of herself, Anna notices a young girl and her dad at an art gallery, prompting thoughts of Anna\u2019s relationship to her father and his body of work. (\u201cI eavesdrop at museums now,\u201d she says. \u201cMaybe I\u2019m hoping to hear him again.\u201d) One scene shows Anna listing the things she\u2019d need to do to properly commemorate her dad\u2019s oeuvre \u2014 a website, perhaps. Surely this short film, a stroke of brilliance, accomplishes that.<\/span><\/p><p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">A few hours\u2019 drive northeast from Toronto lies the picturesque Madawaska Valley, a slice of Ontario countryside that, in the summer, sees locals and cottagers enjoying lakes, sunshine, and the smell of sweetfern in the air. This township\u2019s wild side is also the setting of <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Aaron Ries\u2019 <\/span><\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/rdvcanada.ca\/en\/product\/druh\/\"><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Druh<\/span><\/i><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, a short that follows three scouts and their scoutmasters camping in the Valley\u2019s chilly autumn woods. But this is no ordinary trip: These scouts are trying to earn a coveted badge,\u00a0 and as they venture into the bush amidst the intense pressures of competition and boyhood, things take a dark, unnerving turn.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-07fb050 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"07fb050\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/rdvcanada.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/elementor\/thumbs\/NSOT-Cannes-RDV-2-1-qfzyyp8n99g90fb5k386jesmnzhwkgyn1tck2pk44y.png\" title=\"NSOT &#8211; Cannes &#8211; RDV &#8211; 2\" alt=\"NSOT - Cannes - RDV - 2\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"widget-image-caption wp-caption-text\">From left to right: Anna Hopkins, Aaron Ries, Simon Plouffe, and Marie-Jos\u00e9e Saint-Pierre<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-033e108 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"033e108\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">What are trees if not silent sentinels, keepers of time and generations of the earth? \u201cPrimeval\u201d is not a word to use lightly, but it\u2019s apt for <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Simon Plouffe\u2019s<\/span><\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/rdvcanada.ca\/en\/product\/forests\/\"><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Forests (For\u00eats)<\/span><\/i><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, a documentary revealing the sunken white pines in a hydroelectric reservoir on unceded Innu territory. As voiceovers from the community share stories of these ancients, <\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Forests\u2019 <\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">underwater photography (and contemporary relevance) becomes an elemental audiovisual experience like no other.<\/span><\/p><p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Before his untimely death in 1997, Jean-Claude Lauzon was, with only two features to his name, frequently hailed as a prominent member of Canadian film\u2019s next generation. Indeed, in the 2007 essay collection <\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Great Canadian Film Directors<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, Jim Leach writes: \u201c[Lauzon\u2019s] impact is perhaps best seen in the work of a group of young filmmakers whose films combine a dazzling visual surface with dislocated narrative structures that tap into the unconscious,\u201d possibly influencing films like Denis Villeneueve\u2019s <\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Maelstr\u00f6m<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> (2000) and Manon Briand\u2019s <\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">La Turbulence des fluides <\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">(2002). In <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Marie-Jos\u00e9e Saint-Pierre\u2019s<\/span><\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/rdvcanada.ca\/en\/product\/the-lauzon-theory\/\"><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">The Lauzon Theory<\/span><\/i> <i><span data-contrast=\"none\">(La th\u00e9orie Lauzon)<\/span><\/i><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, a fantastic hybrid documentary, Saint-Pierre fuses original animations and sequences with clips of Lauzon\u2019s work and public appearances to, ultimately, look back at Quebec cinema\u2019s <\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">enfant terrible <\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">and psychoanalyze his relationship with his father.<\/span><\/p><p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">If Lauzon\u2019s prize-winning <\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Piwi <\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">(1981) is any indication, short films can herald the beginning of something big \u2014 a career, a movement, a generation. Following their screening at the Cannes Court M\u00e9trage next month, it\u2019s my grandest hope that any (or all) of these short films \u2014 just seven of the many formidable works submitted to Not Short on Talent this iteration \u2014 inspire exactly these kinds of conversations.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4d31702 elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"4d31702\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-91c9cb9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"91c9cb9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4><em><span class=\"TextRun Highlight BCX0 SCXW29200904\" lang=\"EN\" xml:lang=\"EN\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun BCX0 SCXW29200904\"><span class=\"TextRun Highlight SCXW153624252 BCX0\" lang=\"EN\" xml:lang=\"EN\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW153624252 BCX0\">Canada&#8217;s Not Short on Talent <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW153624252 BCX0\">programme<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW153624252 BCX0\"> is a<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW153624252 BCX0\">vailable through the Cannes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cannescourtmetrage.com\/en\/short-film-corner\/rendez-vousindustry\/sfc-market-1\">Short Film <\/a><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cannescourtmetrage.com\/en\/short-film-corner\/rendez-vousindustry\/sfc-market-1\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW153624252 BCX0\">Video Library<\/span><\/a><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW153624252 BCX0\">. The participants will attend the online and onsite Short Film Corner <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun CommentStart CommentHighlightPipeHovered CommentHighlightHovered SCXW153624252 BCX0\">2022<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun CommentHighlightPipeHovered SCXW153624252 BCX0\">.<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun Highlight BCX0 SCXW29200904\" lang=\"EN\" xml:lang=\"EN\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun BCX0 SCXW29200904\">For more information contact: <\/span><\/span><a class=\"Hyperlink BCX0 SCXW29200904\" href=\"mailto:clemence.bradley@telefilm.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><span class=\"TextRun Highlight Underlined BCX0 SCXW29200904\" lang=\"EN\" xml:lang=\"EN\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun BCX0 SCXW29200904\">clemence.bradley@telefilm.ca<\/span><\/span><\/a> <span class=\"EOP BCX0 SCXW29200904\" data-ccp-props=\"{\">\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/h4>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-bd3b04b elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"bd3b04b\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-1c061ab\" data-id=\"1c061ab\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3b30c90 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"3b30c90\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"221\" height=\"234\" src=\"https:\/\/rdvcanada.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/JakeHowell-xsmall.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-40733\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-a38a8e0\" data-id=\"a38a8e0\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3c7d874 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"3c7d874\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>JAKE HOWELL<\/strong><em><br \/><\/em><\/p><p><em>Jake Howell is a Toronto-based writer and freelance film programmer.<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than a grouping of relative ages, a generation can&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1203,"featured_media":63936,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-spotlight","posts_festivals-cannes-2022"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Generations: Not Short on Talent at Cannes 2022 - RDV Canada<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"More than a grouping of relative ages, a generation can be new growth, a wave of artists, or a branch of a family tree. 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