Director: Laura Bergeron
Production partner: Moi&Dave
Residency: September 23 to 28
Talk: September 26 from 6:30pm
In partnership with Moi&Dave, Le Labo is offering director Laura Bergeron the opportunity to work her feature-length fiction film, Médium Béluga.
This development residency will also be an opportunity for Laura and her producers to prepare the pitch and presentation text for the film, which has been selected for the Rencontres de Coproduction Francophone to be held in Montreal in November.
On September 26, we organized a talk with Le Labo members, so that the director can gather feedback on her work.
Médium Béluga
« Le fou se noie dans la rivière où le
mystique se baigne avec volupté. »
― Joseph Campbell
Celeste, a shy new employee at an aquarium, believes she can communicate with a lonely beluga whale. As their relationship becomes toxic, she is confronted with her family’s tormented past.
Laura Bergeron
An honours graduate and recipient of the 2015 Toronto Film School Directing Award, Laura is a screenwriter, director, editor and animator. In 2015, she directed two short documentaries, Entr’actes and Benoit and the trees, as well as the experimental film La parade. In 2016, she directed the short Winner Gagnant, selected at the Denver Film Festival in Colorado and a finalist for the First Look International Award. In addition to being selected at the Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois in Montreal and the Underground Film Festival in Calgary, Winner Gagnant is now being broadcast by Unis TV. Her short film Lost Cat (2018) was produced thanks to an Ontario Arts Council Media Creation Grant. Laura is also a recipient of Telefilm Canada’s Talent en vue grant, with which she produced the webseries Meilleur Avant (2020) in collaboration with Maxime Robin.
Laura is currently working on a number of film and television projects, as well as developing her first feature film, Médium Béluga.
