Quebec will be at the 6the Edition of the Cannes International Series Festival taking place from April 14th to 19th. No fewer than three Quebec series were selected as official selections for the event
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Lac-Mégantic – it’s no coincidence, the new documentary series by filmmaker Philippe Falardeau (Monsieur Lazhar, Le temps des raspberries) is celebrating its international premiere at Canneseries before being offered on the Vrai platform at the beginning of May.
The series, which looks back on the Lac Mégantic railway tragedy in July 2013, was selected in the competition of the festival’s documentary section.
The series Bon matin Chuck (or the art of reducing harm), produced by Jean-François Rivard (C’est comme ça que je t’aime) and Mathieu Cyr, was selected in the festival’s “long series” competition. The Bell Media production, which brings together Nicolas Pinson, Sylvain Marcel and Marilyn Castonguay on screen, will compete with nine other international series, notably from France, the United States and Norway.
Shot in black and white, Good Morning Chuck (or the Art of Harm Reduction) tells the story of a morning television host who finds himself in a retirement home after becoming involved in a drug scandal. The series will be available on Crave starting May 24th.
Remember that Club illico’s Quebec series Audrey Returned won two awards in this category last year.
Thanks to L’air d’aller, a new series by director Sarah Pellerin, which has been on the air for a week on Télé-Québec, Quebec will also be represented in the Canneseries “Short Series” competition. Catherine St-Laurent, Antoine Olivier Pilon, Joakim Robillard and Noémie Leduc-Vaudry play four friends in their twenties with cystic fibrosis.