JEANNE POPE
​DOCUMENTARIES 2023-4
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Mother - Click Image for trailer

A woman's tale of kidnap, abuse and terror in the hands of the RCMP, residential schools and as a labourer in Canada,
​1938-1950. Having befriended Mother at the Friendship Centre, Montreal, she allowed Wang Ying to interview her. From this the film was made. 

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This is a documentary co-directed with Wang Ying
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Le temps des vendangeurs
2023-4

It's the end of summer 2020, the year of confinement in France. After many years of absence, I return to my village, Tuchan, deep in the Cathar Country, South West France, to heal from a personal drama. The pandemic forces me to stay six months and I have a chance to film the three weeks of grape picking. A long-held dream. Everything is going well until the boss, Alain - The Peps, falls seriously ill and lives his 'dark night of the soul ...
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Serbia Film International

​I follow Alain's team who are friends and migrant travellers; they rally around; are committed to Alain, and want to save his harvest. An observational film with touches of poetry and humour, where the grape vines, mysterious mists, camaraderie, wildness and spontaneity entwine, capturing the slow, ancient nature of Les Corbières, and the stories of the pickers over three weeks. A documentary about unity, community, healing and grapes.

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The Sea Hut 海边的小屋
Jeanne Pope
2019 - Feature - 85 mins - China - Mixed Media Documentary
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A story of loss, identity and memory and uprooted people. Using Super 8, family found footage, war archives, re-enactment, experimentation, and highly saturated images, we move back and forwards between my mother’s past in Shanghai, and Europe; and to a small sea hut in China, the present, which is the metaphor for that veil between two worlds and two times - Europe and China, past and present. Currently on the film circuit.

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Chez Lise
Jeanne Pope & James Galwey
2013 - Feature 85 mins - Canada

Deanna and Gordon are lovers with severe mental health problems. They go to live at Chez Lise, a home for people on low incomes in Montreal. Between love and chaos, they try to make their couple work, but time ticks against them.

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Dust: A Sculptor's Journey
Jeanne Pope 
2011 – Feature  55 mins - Canada
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This film is an intimate artist profile and first-person ode. It explores the life and work of Montreal's late great sculptor and print-maker Stanley Lewis for his contribution to Canada’s rich art heritage and also portrays his love for his beloved Boulevard St. Laurent, affectionately known as the Main. This cinéma-vérité documentary chronicles the last years of Stanley's eccentric life as he struggles with his health and creative legacy. His nostalgic boulevard, his cluttered dusty studio and his vagabond friends all serve as a backdrop for the perseverance of his artistic vision and the cultural landmarks fading around him. This is a personal journal and homage to my friend Stanley.

Born in Iran
Jeanne Pope & Banafcheh Hejazi
2011 - Short  19 mins - Canada
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Leila and Sara go on a road trip from Montreal to visit Leila's grandmother in New Jersey for her birthday. At the US border, Tom, an American agent, puts the girls through a ridiculous interrogation because their Canadian passports state they were born in Iran.
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Up & Down the City Road
Jeanne Pope & Wang Ying
2008 - Short  10 mins - Canada

Up & Down the City Road is a tribute to the Boulevard St.Laurent of old, an ode, a street poem to Stanley Lewis and to friendship, and to his beloved changed street, the Main.
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An animated documentary assembled in a rough-hewn manner, it's formally odd but sentimentally evocative. MALCOLM FRASER Mirror 2008

Birth of the Smoked Meat
Jeanne Pope & Zoe Mapp
2006 - Short 20 mins - Canada

We follow the process of making smoked meat and the characters that have been creating this Jewish delicacy with love for many years. The Main Deli Steakhouse represents one of the few remaining businesses on the Boulevard St. Laurent, the central artery of Montreal. Starring the enigmatic owner, Peter Varvaro, and his old-time friend, the legendary Montreal sculptor Stanley Lewis, we catch a glimpse of their world, which has remained relatively unchanged over the last 40    years.
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A gorgeous black-and-white look inside Montreal's Main Deli. FILM POP 2006

Where's Stanley?
Jeanne Pope
2005 -Short 7mins - Canada
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We begin the Stanley Lewis Collection with Lewis, the Montreal sculptor, bastion of the art world and marginality. We follow him around the Boulevard St Laurent, affectionally called the Main by Montrealers, to his favorite eating houses, then to his studio where we glimpse his intimate and chaotic world of creation.

Special Mention: LA Shorts

The Engineer 
Diego Rivera Kohn & Michael Yaroshevsk
Idea: Diego Rivera Kohn
Cinematography: Glauco Bermudez
Sound: Dustin Woodsman Molicki
Assistant Producers: Alejandro de Leon & Simon Allard
Immigrant played by Jeanne Pope

Awarded 1st prize in the An/Un Equal Quebec? Social Ad Contest, Citizenshift, Canada.