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Sugar Shack Tales

Nicolas Paquet / 2016 / 15 min. / Canada / FRENCH / SUBS ENGLISH

Synopsis

"Sugar Shack Tales" unfolds the stories of those solitary men who keeps the spring ritual alive. They run the buckets and boil the maple sap in their beautiful and old shacks surrounded by a mystical atmosphere.

Cast & Crew

  • Direction and Screenplay : Nicolas Paquet
  • Direction of photography : François Gamache
  • Editing : Natacha Dufaux
  • Sound : Guillaume Lévesque
  • Mixing sound : Bruno Bélanger
  • Making sound : Mélanie Gauthier
  • Production : franC doc

Genre

Documentaire

Topics

Food and nutrition, Economy, Family, Quebec, Work
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Biography

Nicolas Paquet is co-founder of franC doc, a production company based in Bas-Saint-Laurent, Quebec, since 2003. He has produced documentaries Verdoyant pure laine and A beau venir from far away, both shot In a rural area. Her first feature-length documentary, The Golden Rule, was presented in several festivals and regions of Quebec in 2011. In 2014, her documentary "The Like the Land" was presented in ten cities across Canada and was enthusiastically received. by criticism and the media. As a director, he seeks the beauty of small isolated worlds in the maze of the greatest injustices of our time.

Festivals

- 2016 -
In Competition | Rendez-Vous du Cinéma Québécois, Canada
Special Screening | Sous les Etoiles, Canada
In Competition | Festival de Cinéma de la Ville de Québec, Canada

- 2017 -
In Competition | Festival Ciné7, Canada
In Competition | Cinema on the Bayou, USA
In Competition | Rendez-Vous du Cinéma Québécois et Francophone de Vancouver, Canada
In Competition | FIFEQ, Canada
In Competition | Festival 48 Images Secondes, France
In Competition | Planet in Focus, Canada

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