Jeanne Pope
An avid traveler, I left England at 16 and hitch-hiked my way around the world. I published various short stories inspired by these world travels, helped by my father Marius, one of which was adapted to film in Canada -The Dog - starring the French Canadian actress Pascale Monpetit. This began my love affair with film. I arrived in Montreal in 2000 with my daughter, Alyosha. I am drawn to unusual off-centred marginality. To life's under currents where secrets lie, waiting to be told. I am not a political raconteur, I am a storyteller and see the beauty and poetry even in the most tragic and dark. I am attracted to telling tales where we can find some magic and hope. The issues that touch me are social alienation, abandonment, adoption, death, immigration, preserving memories, and falling in love.Through exploration of these topics I find myself through others, and with each new documentary a healing occurs.
An avid traveler, I left England at 16 and hitch-hiked my way around the world. I published various short stories inspired by these world travels, helped by my father Marius, one of which was adapted to film in Canada -The Dog - starring the French Canadian actress Pascale Monpetit. This began my love affair with film. I arrived in Montreal in 2000 with my daughter, Alyosha. I am drawn to unusual off-centred marginality. To life's under currents where secrets lie, waiting to be told. I am not a political raconteur, I am a storyteller and see the beauty and poetry even in the most tragic and dark. I am attracted to telling tales where we can find some magic and hope. The issues that touch me are social alienation, abandonment, adoption, death, immigration, preserving memories, and falling in love.Through exploration of these topics I find myself through others, and with each new documentary a healing occurs.
Being in the right place at the right time was my luck, and meeting Stanley Lewis, the Montreal sculptor, changed my life. "Our Zeitgest,” he would say.
Stanley encouraged me to go to school, and I graduated from Montreal's Concordia University cinema program with honors. During this time Stanley was my ‘muse', and I spent 6 years filming him and the street he lived on, creating a body of award winning work: Where's Stanley?, Birth of the Smoked Meat and Up & Down the City Road.
These shorts, shot in 16mm film paved the way for my first full length feature which I completed once I graduated. To view these films see Portfolio
Stanley encouraged me to go to school, and I graduated from Montreal's Concordia University cinema program with honors. During this time Stanley was my ‘muse', and I spent 6 years filming him and the street he lived on, creating a body of award winning work: Where's Stanley?, Birth of the Smoked Meat and Up & Down the City Road.
These shorts, shot in 16mm film paved the way for my first full length feature which I completed once I graduated. To view these films see Portfolio
Dust: A Sculptor's Journey premiered at HOTDOCS, Toronto, in 2011, and international festivals. It screens regularly around Montreal for the lovers of Lewis, and I am proud to help keep Stan's legacy alive through a website curated by Andrew Bailey and myself: Stanley Lewis, Montreal Sculptor. He was and is my guide.
Working with Montreal's homeless nation whilst helping the late Magnus Isacsson and Simon Bejold with their film L' Art en Action during 3 winters gave me the empathy needed to connect with marginalised people, bringing me later into a half way house in Montreal's south shore, the location for my second full length Canadian feature, Chez Lise.
Co-directed with my hometown buddy, James Galwey in 2013, we befriended two lovers, Deanna and Gordon who suffered from severe mental illness. It is a love story winning first prize in Liège Imagé Santé International Health Film Festiva. lt screened in other international and Canadian festivals.
Co-directed with my hometown buddy, James Galwey in 2013, we befriended two lovers, Deanna and Gordon who suffered from severe mental illness. It is a love story winning first prize in Liège Imagé Santé International Health Film Festiva. lt screened in other international and Canadian festivals.
Since 2015, I have lived in China, teaching and mentoring documentary film production students at the Beijing Film Academy, Qingdao Campus. BFA-MCMC. I love it with a passion
During the pandemic, March 2020, I have been in between France, where I have my home, and the UK where I have my family, and begun a collaboration with the Friends of Woodbury Park Cemetery, a group of passionate and hardworking volunteers who conserve and protect this Victorian Cemetery. My own fascination began as a young child, having grown up on the boundary of this wonderful and mostly unknown space, now a wildlife and historic sanctuary, Please visit the site, https://www.fwpc.org.uk/
I give workshops on how to make documentaries for Educators to show primary school children, and am finishing a series of video tutorial for UDEMY
During the pandemic, March 2020, I have been in between France, where I have my home, and the UK where I have my family, and begun a collaboration with the Friends of Woodbury Park Cemetery, a group of passionate and hardworking volunteers who conserve and protect this Victorian Cemetery. My own fascination began as a young child, having grown up on the boundary of this wonderful and mostly unknown space, now a wildlife and historic sanctuary, Please visit the site, https://www.fwpc.org.uk/
I give workshops on how to make documentaries for Educators to show primary school children, and am finishing a series of video tutorial for UDEMY
I completed my latest feature documentary helped by my students, The Sea Hut - 海边的小屋 , a Chinese production. It started on the festival circuit in November 2019, winning two awards at the Beijing Documentary Academy Awards for best innovative documentary and best sound design. It won first prize at the Jinan academic film festival. It was a finalist at the London Lift Off Sessions, December, 2019.
I am very, very proud of my co-worker Wang Ying, who helped shape the film, and my Chinese students. Thank You.
I am very, very proud of my co-worker Wang Ying, who helped shape the film, and my Chinese students. Thank You.
All my work is low-budget, lovingly carved and passionately fought for.
Scatterflix is DIY, do it yourself documentary production, and means exactly that. Low-budget filmmaking with the desire to keep my own imprint upon my work, and work in my own way. Be in control of the creation from beginning to end. With this is mind, I love to share my ideas and what I have learnt along the way during these past twenty years.
Enjoy the workshops and get tips fast, and ideas explained on documentary film production.
Thanks for visiting this site. Please write to me if you have any questions or would like help at:
contact me: scatterflix@mail.com
Education
TESOL – Oxford Seminars (2015)
BFA Film Production with honors - Concordia Film School, Montreal, Canada (2008)
Open University – The Humanities (1998)
16 years experience in Documentary Film Production
UK
2021: Committee member of the Friends of Woodbury Park Cemetery, UK (FILM TUTORIALS)
2021: Volunteer at the Rusthall Community Cinema, UK
2004: present: Member of the Friends of Woodbury Park Cemetery
CHINA
2015-years – present, associate professor and mentor, documentary production
Beijing Film Academy, Qingdao. Since 2021, renamed the Qingdao Film School. During the pandemic,
online teaching with Zoom
2016-Present: proofreader for doctoral candidates
CANADA
2008 - present: film mentor/editor and thesis consultant
2014 - present: Member of Quebec filmmakers association Les Dames du Doc
FRANCE
2016 - present: Co-associate of Film Bandits, a non-lucrative association, Fitou, France
2004-present: archivist for Tuchan Village, France
TESOL
2016 - 2019: AMIO English Training Centre, Qingdao. Children to adults, art based English classes
2015-present: Professional Film English BFAMCMC
Holistic Therapist
2020: Accredited Mindfulness Coach
2013: Accredited IAIM Baby massage
2009: Reiki 1-2-3
1987 - present: Registered Remedial Therapist
2001 – 2015. I had my own practice and worked with chiropractors and doctors in a
busy downtown clinic in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
I worked while studying film production, and continue today to benefit from
the joys that holistic therapies offer to me and the people with whom I mentor.
View my CV here
Scatterflix is DIY, do it yourself documentary production, and means exactly that. Low-budget filmmaking with the desire to keep my own imprint upon my work, and work in my own way. Be in control of the creation from beginning to end. With this is mind, I love to share my ideas and what I have learnt along the way during these past twenty years.
Enjoy the workshops and get tips fast, and ideas explained on documentary film production.
Thanks for visiting this site. Please write to me if you have any questions or would like help at:
contact me: scatterflix@mail.com
Education
TESOL – Oxford Seminars (2015)
BFA Film Production with honors - Concordia Film School, Montreal, Canada (2008)
Open University – The Humanities (1998)
16 years experience in Documentary Film Production
UK
2021: Committee member of the Friends of Woodbury Park Cemetery, UK (FILM TUTORIALS)
2021: Volunteer at the Rusthall Community Cinema, UK
2004: present: Member of the Friends of Woodbury Park Cemetery
CHINA
2015-years – present, associate professor and mentor, documentary production
Beijing Film Academy, Qingdao. Since 2021, renamed the Qingdao Film School. During the pandemic,
online teaching with Zoom
2016-Present: proofreader for doctoral candidates
CANADA
2008 - present: film mentor/editor and thesis consultant
2014 - present: Member of Quebec filmmakers association Les Dames du Doc
FRANCE
2016 - present: Co-associate of Film Bandits, a non-lucrative association, Fitou, France
2004-present: archivist for Tuchan Village, France
TESOL
2016 - 2019: AMIO English Training Centre, Qingdao. Children to adults, art based English classes
2015-present: Professional Film English BFAMCMC
Holistic Therapist
2020: Accredited Mindfulness Coach
2013: Accredited IAIM Baby massage
2009: Reiki 1-2-3
1987 - present: Registered Remedial Therapist
2001 – 2015. I had my own practice and worked with chiropractors and doctors in a
busy downtown clinic in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
I worked while studying film production, and continue today to benefit from
the joys that holistic therapies offer to me and the people with whom I mentor.
View my CV here
