DOCUMENTARIES IN PRODUCTION 2021-2022
teasers coming soon for these works in progress

Mother

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 film her interview

Waiting for my Brain

I was the only non - Chinese patient to have an Acoustic Neuroma brain tumour successfully removed, in Qilu Hospital, Shandong, China. Trust, belief and love were essential ingredients, bypassing culture, language and tradition
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Violette's Playground

When playing in a disused cemetery, a young child, Violette, is a catalyst for discovering an otherworldly link between her grandmother and an unknown Victorian woman, Philadelphia Carman, who died in 1851. A tale of friendship and the unexpected

CHINESE FILMS and STUDENT FILMS

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2005-2021
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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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This is a story of loss and love, identity, memory and forgiveness. A story of 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 to where she was born in Shanghai, then moved to Europe; and to the present, a small fishing village in China where a sea hut 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.