The Festival du nouveau cinéma is pleased to announce the special Cartes blanches project for its 41st edition. The project was such a success in 2011 that, this year, the Festival asked seven filmmakers from Quebec and Canada to direct a short film on the theme of “Cherished Freedom.”

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Anne Émond, Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette, André Turpin, Kevin Papatie, Jean-François Caissy, Félix Dufour-Laperrière and Istvan Kantor, seven filmmakers with close ties to the Festival, accepted our invitation. They all agreed to try their hand at directing a short HD film two to four minutes long. The filmmakers, all from different backgrounds, will interpret the theme cinematically using their own personal approach.

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Throughout the 11 days of the Festival, the Cartes blanches films will be randomly revealed to festivalgoers at the start of each screening. And starting October 4, they will be available exclusively to online viewers on the Festival website at www.nouveaucinema.ca. From October 10 to 21, the films will also be projected on a giant screen at the Place des Festivals in the Quartier des spectacles as part of the WATERFALLS interactive installation created by artist Daniel Iregui, in association with the Quartier des spectacles, as well as in the Berri-UQAM metro station starting October 4, in association with the STM.

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Another new feature of this ambitious project is audience participation. To finalize the production and postproduction of the Cartes blanches films, the Festival is asking for support from the public through the online participatory financing platform touscoprod. A strong supporter since 2010, the Festival is proud to have helped the platform expand across Canada.

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The project was made possible through the support of Vision Globale, the Canada Council for the Arts, Telefilm Canada, SODEC, ARRQ, Motor vfx, Main Film and touscoprod.