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2021
INTERNATIONAL MOVING FESTIVAL - IRAN

Dear Ying
Your Documentary "Shang Xin Fang" deserves credit for its technique, script, visual and sound and specially for its historic manifestation. I trust your Documentary is appreciated profoundly by everyone. Keep up the good work and looking forward to see more of your films. Festival Director 
Mahmoud Reza Sani
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2019
The Sea Hut Review
海边的小屋

"The SEA HUT - 海边的小屋 ," is a hybrid documentary and a family tale. 

A strange and sad poem which uses different media to tell the multi-layered story of an elderly woman reminiscing over her childhood in Shanghai, China, and wondering what happened to her Chinese nanny. 
Jinan TV awards, China. 2019


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Review
Dust. A Sculptor's Journey


​One Montreal artist dies, another is born
 
Bill Brownstein, The Montreal Gazette, October 12, 2011  


Jeanne Pope thought she had her life pretty much figured out eight years ago. Then Pope, a single mom who moved here from London in 2000, happened to be browsing through a secondhand bookshop on the Main. She literally bumped into maverick Montreal sculptor Stanley Lewis.

And so Pope's life was to change in ways she would never have dreamed. Pope, a therapist at a chiropractic clinic, was mesmerized by Lewis, who was almost as renowned for his philosophical views on the universe as he was for his art. Lewis and his work were to consume Pope long past his death in 2006.

Though she had never picked up a camera prior to meeting Lewis, Pope decided she wanted to become a filmmaker and focus on the sculptor. And so she applied and was accepted as a mature student in Concordia University's esteemed film-production program


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Though she had never picked up a camera prior to meeting Lewis, Pope decided she wanted to become a filmmaker and focus on the sculptor. And so she applied and was accepted as a mature student in Concordia University's esteemed film-production program

Read more here


Dust - Pitch Deck


2013 Chez Lise Reviews

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2008 - Birth of The Smoked Meat - Winner of Kodak Prize for best direction
CANNES International Film Festival. Montreal Film Festival. And at many other international festivals.

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Review from Concordia News Journal. Click here


Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema,
Concordia University, Canada
Birth of the Smoked Meat 2006 Winners of the Kodak Imaging Award at the 37th Canadian Student Film Festival
Jeanne Pope and Zoe Mapp

 
For Zoe Mapp and Jeane Pope, showing their short documentary “Birth of the Smoked Meat” as part of the Kodak Emerging Filmmaker Program at Cannes was an opportunity to display their cherished community to the entire world. “It exposed [us] to an international market, the likes of which I would never have access to in Canada,” Says Mapp. “We have since played our film in five countries since last year, all through having seen our work at the Short Film Corner,”  adds Pope.

“Birth of the Smoked Meat”, about the making of a Montreal delicacy, was made at the behest of the filmmakers’ friend Stanley Lewis. Lewis, a Montreal sculptor, was the subject of the filmmaking team’s first documentary “Where’s Stanley”. “He insisted we take on this project, which brought us the success we’ve had,” recounts Pope. The filmmakers even pay homage to his influence in “Smoked Meat”, as the food makes its way from delivery at the back of the restaurant to Stanley Lewis’ dinner plate.

Mapp and Pope’s third project, “Berson Boys”, concerns the art of headstone engraving in the oldest business on the Boulevard St. Laurent and completes the trilogy of films regarding this bastion of the Montreal community. Lewis lived above the Bersons’ engraving business, and the chronicle of their workday brings the tour around  Montreal’s culturally dense zone known as “The Main” full circle.






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The area has been so inspirational to both Pope and Mapp, that Pope’s next project, an animated short titled “Up & Down the City Road” also concerns the gentrification and destruction “The Main” faces today. Since an animated project heavily relies on planning every image, Pope and Mapp used their documentary trilogy as an opportunity to capture the spontaneous reality as it took place. “The whole time we took chances as this was documentary, it was real time, no second take-we had one chance and that was that,” explains Pope, “we had to have ears, eyes and feet everywhere. We had to be very fast as well as balanced.”
Filming a documentary that encompassed the entire routine of the Bersons in a short schedule proved difficult, especially considering the sensitive nature of the Bersons’ work. “It was the close of the season,” recounts Pope, “the Boys, who work the session intensely, were very tired, we had to be very careful how we treated them as well as stay out of the way of grieving families…we only had four days to get what we could.” Continue to read
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Stanley Lewis - still from Dust, A Sculptor's Journey
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Age of Violence Series
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Please visit our site for Stanley Lewis where you can see more information about our friend, the Montreal Sculptor


Click here for access to Stan's Site
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"Thank you dear Jeanne. It is an honour to have your creative thoughts which are printed in this film. With your love energy, passion and creative thoughts and encouragement this film can have its own soul finally. Thank you so much". ​Tao Gu - Taming the Horse
"Jeannette taught me the tools I needed, never having made a documentary before. She gave so much time, patience to show me, guide me and share her creativity and skills with me."  Dr. Zou Qialing, Beijing Film Academy, Qingdao Campus

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