Synopsis
A journey in and around Montreal that takes us from the detail of an icon painter to the massive feather dress of a Queen of the Night to the alleys at dawn in search of precious throwaways. Where we invent our lives...
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Credits
Written, directed and produced by Michka Saäl
Image: Sylvestre Guidi
Sound recording: Pierre Bertrand, Louis Léger
Sound design: Catherine Van Der Donckt
Editor: Xi Feng
Delegated producer: Mark Foss
Produced with support from Aide au Cinéma Indépendant (National Film Board of Canada).
With Michel Bourassa, Daniel Guidi, Isabelle Parent and Victor Junior Roberge.
Mark Foss would like to thank everyone who helped make this film possible. In particular, he would like to acknowledge the following people whose financial contributions earned them a place in the credits:
Judith Abitbol
Anne Aghion
Josée Beaudet
Felix Amit Bellicha
Pascale Bilodeau
Simone Birger
Marion Blanchard
Audrey & Manon Blouin
Marie Brodeur
Guilhem Brouillet
Amandine Brun
Jamieson Campbell & Sangeeta Dhawan
Centre d’apprentissage parallèle
Champ-contrechamp
Deborah Chapman & Carl Bertoia
Beaté Coudurier
Michel Croisetière & André Chassé
Véronique Dassass
Patricia de Villers
Thierry Delor
Nathalie Derome
Denise Deutch
Michael Dickie & Deborah Middlemiss
Martin Duckworth
Équipe Montréal
Carole Farley
Scott Farley
Xi Feng
Carlos Ferrand & Catherine Van Der Donckt
Simone & Bobby Few
Lucas Foss & Elizabeth Neil
Thierry Garrel
Jean-François Giroux
Mp Grenier
Tao Gu
Louise Guénette
Monica Haim & Yves Deschamps
Guy Hakim
Xiaoxiao & Zhou Han
Mike Hopper
Annie Jean
Klepp klepp
Lihong Kong
Danièle Koskas
Marc Laporte & Carole Simard
Dominique Lardet
Gilles et Odile Lejosne Guigon
Anita Leroy Vilfrid
Sylvain L’Espérance
Guylaine L’Heureux
Warwick Long
Nadine Ltaif
Wendy MacIntyre
Guy Marin
Iphigénie Marcoux-Fortier
Lucie Masliah
David Mulholland
Margie & Peter Mulvihill
Lorraine & Dan Nolan
Jadis Norman
Jelena Popović
André Scialom
Dominique Sicotte
Linda Soucy
Françoise Spiri
Mary Stephen
Natasha Turovsky
Patricia Weibel
Andrew Wild
Aonan Yang
Screenings
2020
Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma, Montréal
2019
Montreal International Documentary Festival
Backstory
After shooting films in Sweden, France and China, Michka Saäl had conceived this film as a “re-entry” into Quebec, and particularly, Montreal. She shot the film in 2013, completing editing in 2014. Before she could seek funding for post-production, other projects came to fruition — Spoon, A Great Day in Paris and New Memories. Following her death in 2017, with support from the National Film Board’s program for independent filmmakers (ACIC) and a crowdfunding campaign, Mavericks (formerly The Adventurers) was to be completed in early 2019.